M.A. LARSON HAS MADE HISTORY (S5E9 SPOILERS) · 6:56pm Jun 13th, 2015
This is no joke, no exaggeration. I mean it. M.A. Larson has made tv-history. And now I’m going to explain why and how.
Today’s episode (S5E9/100th). It was Awesome. Beyond Awesome. You know what I mean. But that is not the point. The point is that this type of Awesome was unheard of. Prove me wrong. I dare you.
Larson’s geniusness is deceptively simple: he simply wrote a slice of life story, as such devoid of any extremely profound or original content, and then threw in a bunch of cross-references to call it a day. End of story.
Everything but. What Larson in truth did was to reverse the mechanism behind the success of the show – the margins. The background ponies. He took them and he gave them voices and a background of their own. In short, he moved the margin into the centre.
One cannot even begin to understand the revolutionary nature of today’s episode if they were not familiar with the history preceding it. Larson did not simply extend the good old formula of picking some cues and references from the fandom and inserting them into the show to spice things up. Instead, he took the spices and made them the beef. He turned the show inside out. He wrote a fanfic, and framed it as an episode.
Today’s episode was not an episode of the series of MLP:FIM. It was a salute to the fandom. A homage paid to a four year’s triumph. I have never seen nor heard anything even remotely comparable to that. If there is such a thing as the history of tv-cartoons, this day was a revolution.
M.A. Larson.
Thank you.
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3151079 What?
3151149
It's that silly Call Of Duty meme that's been spreading around.
"Press F to pay respects"
I was paying my respects to Mr. Larson for the good episode I guess. Just a grain of silliness I suppose. I blame the internet.
3151234 No no no, that makes way too much sense.