My thoughts on Equestria Girls

For as long as I've heard about this movie, I swore I'd never see it. I swore I would never ruin my vision of such an amazing show, and all the ponies within, by tainting my eyes with such a horribly-contrived cashgrab.

You're being petty Brian!

You won't know until you watch it, Brian!

How can you judge without seeing it, Brian?

So, finally, I broke down. I compromised my personal values, to watch this movie for the sole sake of seeing what the big fuss was about.

Firstly, I was one of the bronies that had a HUGE problem with the Season 3 finale. When Twilight Sparkle became an Alicorn, I became sooo butthurt about it, that I continue to sulk and pout even now.

Youtube sensation Catie Wayne expresses my feeling identically on the matter (except her love of Pinkie Pie is replaced by my adoration for Fluttershy):

Thus, I wasn't much looking forward to seeing "Princess" Twilight in her first role.

Secondly, the very idea of the movie was just so blindly stupid that I couldn't imagine that I could sit through it, let alone enjoy it.

But still, for the sake of being fair, I subjected my brain cells to it.

And, you know what? I'm glad I watched it. I'm glad, because now I can give educated reasons why it was the dumbest f'ing thing I've ever seen. First of all, the premise makes no sense. I mean, there just happens to be a portal to a human-ish world in Equestria? Puh-leeze!

And then...I mean...there just happens to be EXACT, F'ING duplicates of the Mane 6 in this world (one of whom has blue skin - something that nobody seems to consider strange at all!) And do these kids ever go to actual class?? It seems like they have an awful lot of time to do plenty of things (including cleaning up an entire gym in an afternoon)! And somehow they manage to resist this horrible demonspawn with...what...the magic of friendship? PUH-LEEZE!

I laughed through the whole thing!

Yet, the movie did have a positive element to it for me; it allowed me to become more used to Twilight as a princess. I still disagree with the decision, but I can better see now how, despite it all, she will still be able to interact with her friends.

And so, in a sense, I suppose I'm glad I saw the movie, because now I'm not dreading season 4 as much...

Grr...