How I discovered MLP:FIM

My first real encounter with My Little Pony was when my little sisters started buying the toys. Compared to the Polly Pockets, those horses weren't little at all. But I quickly forgot about them as the years went by. Before I came to this website, my internet stomping grounds was centered around Gameinformer.com, the blogging community there specifically. I wrote topical blogs centered around video games, and chatted it up with other bloggers there. Seemingly overnight, people began changing their profile pics to images of cartoon ponies. Curious, I inquired of my fellow bloggers why they were all losing their minds (I was actually less blunt than that) and I was told, quite enthusiastically, that they were paying tribute to the greatest cartoon in existence and that I should start watching it right away.

So I did. I pulled up the very first episode on Netflix and prepared myself for amazement. I still recall my initial impressions. I missed it when Spike's name was first mentioned, so when Twilight called him Casanova I thought that was his actual name. When the first episode ended on a cliffhanger, I thought to myself, Oh, cool, they're going to spend the entire first season chasing after this Nightmare Moon in a land cursed by eternal night. When the entire conflict was resolved in the very next episode, I was less than pleased. The way that the Mane Six showed off their Elements was contrived. Nightmare Moon's defeat was way too easy. I didn't bother watching episode number 3. Well, not right away obviously. At the time, I remember thinking it was a darn shame. Had the show been any good, I would have liked being a part of the "brony" community.

Being the buzzkill that I was, I reported back to my delusional fellow bloggers that I didn't see why their show was so special. Their response was to tell me to watch more, because it gets better. So I did. I watched the third. Then the fourth. I thought that maybe I was fooling myself. I didn't actually like the show. I chuckled a few time while watching Episode six, Boast Busters. Then came episode 7, Dragonshy. It dawned on me that despite being a pegasus, Fluttershy was afraid of heights. For some reason, that was really funny to me. From that point forward, I was in.