Present Perfect vs. Newborn Cuties · 1:46pm Dec 25th, 2014
(No complaining, no one's up yet and Christmas hasn't started. :V)
So, along with G3 and G3.5, technically part of the latter, was a series of two webisodes collectively known as "Once Upon a Pony Time" and generally referred to, in my experience, as "Newborn Cuties". They feature the G3 ponies talking about what life was like when they were toddlers. This should be fun, right?
Right?
NO NEVER FUCKING AGAIN
Yeah, I watched one of these back when I was exploring the old gens after getting into MLP:FiM, and it turned out to be the most godawful piece of 'animation' ever created. About the time Scootaloo started bounding from chair to chair, her sprite completely static, shouting "Party party party!" was when I quit, lest I puke my eyes out.
Merry fucking Christmas.
So what have we learned? The old gens are not as bad as we've been told. Well, G1 sure isn't, and I found ways to enjoy My Little Pony Tales and G3 despite them being bad. G3.5 was a step forward and two steps back, while Newborn Cuties are COMPLETELY DEVOID OF MERIT AND A BLIGHT ON THE NAME OF ANIMATION.
But I'm not mad. :B
Anyway, I linked all my old journals up there if'n you wanted to get the full experience. Hope you folks have enjoyed this as much as I did! I gotta go buy me some G3 DVDs now...
I hope you have a Merry Christmas in spite of your self-torture.
Why would you do this to yourself?
I saw an episode of "newborn cuties" once. I had nightmares for weeks.
!!WARNING!!
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Things Man Was Not Meant To Know ahead
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That was ... um ...
Well, I watched one with you, at least. Shared pain is lessened, as Spider Robinson says. Merry Hearthsmas.
I notice that there were four animators listed in the credits. Not credited: Their mother's basement, or the paste they ate before cracking open their brand-new copy of Flash.
I do have one nice thing to say about that video. A full third of its nine-minute run-time was taken up with the slow establishing landscape-zoom intro and outro (plus the credits), so only two-thirds of it could be classified as war crimes under the Geneva Convention.
On the bright side, I have now watched a My Little Pony video that Double Rainboom's pacing and comedic timing both compare favorably to.
Aw, didn't you even try "Over Two Rainbows"? If you thought "So Many Different Ways To Play" was good, you'll really like that one! And be sure to watch both episodes all the way through - the morals are spectacular!
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Brilliant. :D
Y'know, you are absolutely right, and I never thought about it like that. All I can say is that now I know unicorns come from wishes on clouds or something.
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NO SHUT UP YOU CANNOT FOOL ME
You're a braver pony-lover than I'll ever be.
But really, the generation-by-generation reviews are both funny and useful.
They are much appreciated.
Happy Holidays!
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Glad you liked them, and the same to you. :D
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Thanks.
Pah and pshaw. Why does everyone only watch "So Many Different Ways to Play"? It's such a pale shadow of "Over Two Rainbows". The animation in "OTR" is in another league, as all who have seen it will testify! And really, how could you miss out on the epic tale of Rainbow Dash's scarf?
Ah well, it's Boxing Day here in the UK now, but I hope your Christmas was merry, bright and all those other clichéd things.
Yes but is it worse than Twilestia?
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Jury's out on that.