Start out simple, end big.

I’m sure some of those who’ve been following this particular journal series are tired of me comparing MLP: FIM and MLP: ANG to Digimon. So to those people, you’ll be happy to know I’ll be comparing ANG to other shows in this one.

So, My Little Pony: A New Generation has premiered and honestly, it’s not bad. I'm already fond of the new main characters and I'm delighted to see the fandom seems to be wasting no time in bringing them into art and stories. I’m also delighted to see it didn’t flop as I was somewhat fearing it would. Not only did it not flop, but it’s apparently appealed to quite a few people (maybe even some who are new to the fandom and will now look back to learn more). And while I should’ve known better considering it’s the very first episode, it left me with more questions than answers. It was so much simpler than I thought it would be, mainly in that there isn’t much talk about the FIM generation.

But a few days after seeing it and thinking on it, I realized how many other shows I watched all the way through started out so simple, then went deeper as the show went on. Beast Wars started out as just another good vs. evil battle on some strange planet (bear in mind at the time, I had no idea Stonehenge existed, so I didn’t know they were on Earth). It wasn’t until later in the first season we learned there was more to the planet than met the eye. And it wasn’t until the second season that we finally learned what was at stake in the fight. Spider-Man: The Animated Series started out as just the usual day to day adventures of the main hero. It wasn’t until later that we learned that Spider-Man was being tested in order to save all of existence. And of course Digimon Adventure and Zero Two both started out simple and got more deep as things went on. So I’m keeping an eye on the new show with this in mind.

As I said, the premier of A New Generation has raised a lot of questions for me. Where did those three crystals come from? How did they get separated (I doubt it was by accident)? Why was one of them hidden in Argyle’s home? Why did Sunny Starscout become an Alicorn of all things? What about Canterlot, Ponyville, the Crystal Empire and all the other areas we saw in FIM? So many questions. And hopefully, the show’s creators are aware of this and plan on addressing these questions as time goes on. And who knows? Perhaps we will one day learn that the cause of the three pony tribes splitting up once again was much more serious than simply the passage of time?