Rough Ranting · 7:45pm Sep 9th, 2013
It's been quite some time; I feel I ought to speak up on what happened to the project I said I was working on, and why I haven't published anything in over a year.
I really was working on something: a large multi-chapter epic about Celestia's death, the immense turmoil that plagued Equestria following her absence and a broken Twilight going on a hopeless quest to resurrect her. The tale swiftly proved too much for me to handle; I've scrapped it and searched for something else to write ever since. I won't say there's no chance I'll revisit it but at this point I doubt it. It probably isn't wise to go from a single-character stream-of-consciousness to something like that.
I'm currently considering writing something about everypony's favourite Trixie clone: Sunset Shimmer. It's likely that I'll end up completely reimagining her, as I'm not at all fond of her depictions on both silver screen and comic page, due in large part to her being Trixie if Trixie had magical power on Twilight's level or the internet, depending on the dimension. One could say that the info we've been given about her is rife with potential, which could probably be said about any minor character...
...she's a Trixie clone. They redeemed Trixie, then they put the old Trixie into a new body, made her even more obnoxious and called it a day. If you think that makes me excited or motivated to write about her, you'd be wrong[1]. If I wanted to write about Trixie I'd do just that. Fine, whatever, she's an "anti-Twilight" or something, at least she has the power to back it up, but Trixie already had has that role. Why did the villain have to be the opposite of Twi, anyway? Luna isn't the opposite of Celestia, and look what she did. Are sympathetic villains with original and complex motivations unpopular with the teenage girl demographic? I thought this was supposed to be a girls' show that took itself and its audience seriously.
I need to stop rambling and get to my next class. Maybe I should write a proper blog post detailing everything I dislike about Sunset, but for now: whinewhinewhinemoanmoanwhine.
To Tartarus with Equestria Girls...which is canon, BTW. Because Twilight learned that non-ponies are capable of friendship (which you would think is obvious, but consider: Gilda, the dragon in Dragonshy, the dragons in Dragon Quest...). Or that the Elements of Harmony retain their power while in other dimensions (which she already knew thanks to Sunset). Actually, I'm not sure what she S4 YAY!!! I'M SO EXCITED, EVERYPONY! AREN'T YOU EXCITED?! :D
[1] So why do I want to write about her? Some of her base concepts are interesting. There's an interesting character somewhere in there, and I want to find her.
For me, Equestria Girls failed on pretty much every level. The premise, the visual designs, the songs, the new characters. None of them appealed to me. Seriously, of the countless pieces of fan art of human ponies I've seen, I can't think of any worse than in the movie.
Between that disaster of a movie and a disappointing season 3, I was not optimistic about the future of the show. But then seeing the preview of season 4 actually got me pumped about it. I think I've gotten more enjoyment out of the apple song alone than all of season 3 and the movie put together. It was enough to make me start reading the comics, which I have enjoyed so far.
Good luck with school and your writing, and here's hoping for an awesome season 4 in November.