Does it seem to anyone else...

That the MLP movie is looking like it's going to be a hot mess like Nu!Changelings?

Comments

[xonxt]

Yeah, seems like too many new unknown characters of new unknown races.
Which, on one hand is cool, because world-building. But on the other hand, too many new characters either means too little development for each of them, or too much happening at the same time.

[Wild Zontars]

Too many new characters, too much going on for a one-off movie. I worry that they won't have time to properly introduce anything, and it'll just be a bunch of stuff thrown at the screen as fast as they can.

Honestly, I'd prefer if they had just stuck with the Mane Six and had enough time to properly develop a story without Saturday Morning Cartoonifying a script to fit into 22 minutes.

[Aurora Dimmet]

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That cat-guy is likely not of a new, unknown race. Might be a throwback to the catmorph villainess Catrina from the old days. That princess might be a throwback as well.

[iisaw]

For me, there's a couple of things that rub me the wrong way based on personal taste. Anthros and seaponies... eh. But the one thing that is a huge red flag for me on an absolute level is the Smarm-brow cat. Stylistically jarring, and that pose is a cliche for bad "cool" characters:

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He has "marketing executive interference" written all over him: POOCHY!

I will be ecstatic to be proved wrong.

[Rao the Red Sun]

I'm down with Seapone, broken-horn lady, and Discount Tirek. Creepy anthro animals should stay in Disney though. Unless they come through the mirror from some weird ass alternate dimension, then... meh.

Current status: Cautiously pessimistic.

[TheLastBrunnenG]

Diamond Dogs are already anthro furries, and the comics have already had sapient bipedal cats (before Chrysalis ate them). And the sea ponies appeared in an early book.

Hopefully the movie will have the Six travel around the world recruiting allies against Storm King (aka Tirek II), which would lead to a climactic "everyone contributes meaningfully" battle.

My canon for the series officially ends around S06 episode 24, so this will matter for me less than it otherwise might.

[DarkBlueDreamer]

I'm cool with it, because eh, why not? They can only go so far with the original formula, may as well spice everything up a bit.

The show is a living, breathing animal and until it all ends completely, it's going to keep twisting and changing. I'm... not entirely enamoured with a bunch anthro creatures, but I'm gonna wait and see how it all fits together. At least the Seapony design looks neat.

[PresentPerfect]

Fuck no! I haven't seen anything yet (even the bad OC) that's gotten me anything less than super hyped.

[Serenity Rising]

I think the fandom has been less trusting in the writers than they should be, for quite some time now. Thinking back to Princess Twilight, EQG, and the recent changeling evolution, people have reacted rather poorly. Whenever something changes, it makes people uncomfortable, because they risk a show they love being warped, but to me, the changes are welcome. I love that My Little Pony: FIM is a breathing story. I love that the characters actually change and grow over time. I love that Rainbow Dash is part of the wonderbolts, that Rarity opened up new shops, that the cutie mark crusaders got their cutie marks, and that the show is dynamic, instead of an unchanging narrative of constant struggle towards the same goals.
The writers haven't done anything that i feel hasn't paid off in the end, and so, when it comes to new, possibly scary things like the coming movie, I put my faith in them. They haven't let me down yet, and they are still adding to the universe we all love! Haven't they earned a little faith?
Even if things aren't 100% the way we may like, we are certain to get some things we like, and some things we can add to this wonderful pony world of ours.

[Daetrin]

Personally, I basically discount everything after S3 or S4. I mean, Triptych diverges before Twilicorn, so that's a thing, but there just aren't very many good ideas there. Especially when it comes to gryphons -_-

[Jykinturah]

I literally just don't have the energy to have an opinion to be honest. I think people will like it, but I'm not watching any pony anymore.

[Multiversecruise]

All I know is the animation is still good and the ponies are still cute!