You're Really Testing My Patience, MLP · 7:12pm Mar 16th, 2017
Soooooo... that new teaser trailer is pretty bad, in my opinion. The show has been moving steadily in a direction that I don't enjoy for a while, so that's not entirely unexpected, but I was surprised by how little I liked that teaser. There is literally nothing about it that made me feel happy or excited. I just let out a long, exasperated sigh.
I've been critical of all the people here that I've seen calling for the show to end, but I kinda feel like I get it now. I wouldn't say that I want the show to end, though. I want it to get better! Better is relative, of course, but I just feel like a lot of the writing and general plot arc of the show is so uninspired. There's no sparkle left in Twilight, if you will.
Hopefully that teaser trailer is just an off moment. I did like last season's finale despite Starlight being in it. Trixie and Discord were enough to buoy my spirits. It felt more character-driven than a lot of the other season six episodes. This teaser... well. It feel like they are rushing things again and carrying on with plots that I care nothing about. Doesn't look like there's going to be a lot that I'm going to be interested in. I guess we will see.
But what about the upcoming episode where Cheerilee tries speed dating? I for one am Iooking forward to it.
4458888 Say what now?!
Proudly calling for the show to end since season 2!
It really jumped the shark for me when Twi got her wings...
(I'm still sore about them destroying the harmony of the Mane 6: two unicorns, two pegasi, two earth ponies.)
4458888
This sounds like a deleted scene from SleeplessBrony's Romance Reports...
Try to stay positive: Maybe this means they are (spoilers) Twilight is finished with Starlight and she can go be the mayor of Our Town or something and never return again!
4459007 For me it's when Celestia made her move to Ponyville instead of stay in Canterlot, it's gone downhill since there.
4459111 To be honest, I was kinda hoping that would be the thrust of it, but I'm pretty sure it won't be.
::Descends into incoherent grumbling::
Of course, there has always to be one who sours the mood..... Since Season 5, I see you complaining about the show a lot.
Yet, you never really explain what you like about it and what you don't like about it. All I see is complaints.
Don't mind me saying this, but by now, you come across like one of those bronies who only watch the show for one reason anymore, to complain about it, to take it apart, to badmouth it and to try ruining its reputation because they can't cope with the plot developing in a different way than they want it to.
Honestly, if it wouldn't be for me being afraid to lose sight of you as an author, I would have unfollowed you a long time ago for all of this.....
And I would also ask you to not constantly portray the show as objectively flawed and to interpret all sorts of plotholes, contrivances, rushed episodes, bad pacing, [Insert whatever cool buzzword here] into it that aren't even there to begin with, just because the show isn't meeting your taste anymore and because you get salty over this.
Comments like this are just not okay:
This is where you cross the line from "So far, I'm not seeing anything that feels interesting to me personally." to the more polite translation of "This show is shit now, those writers can't do anything right anymore!".
Making such objective statements, over something that is completely subjective, and essentially calling the show "bad", just because the show's plot doesn't go where you want to have it, doesn't express your opinion, it just makes you being a prick.
The title of this blog entry already makes this very obvious. Testing your patience? I think you really should rein in your frustration a little..... This show is not made for you specifically and it does not revolve around you.
Character driven? You mean in all sincerity that episodes like
- Pinkie giving up one of her most important possessions to buy her sister the present she wants
- Applebloom becoming afraid of her and her friends breaking up and going their own ways after getting their marks
- Spike wanting to become Dragon Lord to save Equestria and his friends
- Starlight and Trixie becoming friends after discovering they have a similar history as villains and perfectly understand each other and almost getting driven apart again by Twilight being worried Trixie could be a bad influence, so that Twilight has to own up to her mistake and fix things
- Rainbow Dash being confronted with an old foalhood trauma involving bullying, by her idols to boot, then learning that not every teasing is automatically bullying and growing stronger by that
- Fluttershy standing up to her lazy/unconfident brother and Zephyr Breeze learning with her help to finally bring up the spirit to get something done
- Rainbow Dash having to put up with an obnoxious fan who insults what she likes, then said obnoxious fan having to learn that the later Daring Do books aren't bad just because he doesn't like them (Yes, I am pointing out the irony here and adding the remark that you probably didn't like this particular episode for this very lesson there)
- Applebloom, Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle having to put up getting belittled by adults and with their own interests getting forced on them, then their big sisters having to learn the hard way that belittling foals is a bad thing
- Rainbow Dash having to learn that she shouldn't scare others to death or endangering their lives with pranks, just to prove how awesome she is, because she might just kill somepony that way
- Discord opening himself up more to the possibility of having friends other than Fluttershy
- Rainbow Dash and Applejack learning to not put pressure on their friends for their own, personal gain
- Applebloom, Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle having to learn the harsh life lesson that they can't help everyone and are sometimes just forced to let others wallow in their bad fate because they can't change anything about it (and all that, while Scootaloo has to face the fact she can't change her own fate of being flightless either)
- Starlight falling back into old behavior when she realizes she is so anxious that she can't solve a problem without magic, learning the hard way how her insecurities affect her and having to face how this just hurt her new friends
- A flashback episode where we learned how Applejack became the honest mare she is by learning how bad lying is and what consequences it could have
- Vapor Trail learning that she doesn't really help her friend by making him believe he is a good flyer by doing everything for him, instead of actually training him to become a good flyer, and who almost loses him that way
are less character-driven than episodes like
- Twilight having to decide between one of her new friends or
- Applejack and Rarity learning to accept each other's differences or
- Twilight having to learn that science can't explain everything and that her friend simply has an ability she will never understand?
I hope this is not what you mean, because this doesn't even make sense.
Or let's extend this to the soon-to-be aired Season 7, while we're already at it.....
So, from the looks of it, by the first teaser and the synopsis, Twilight is going through an existential crisis and believes to be a bad teacher for Starlight, for reasons we have yet to find out, and Celestia is giving her advice to help her through this crisis.
Not character-driven enough? Please..... If you don't see the character driven plot here, then you miss the forest for the trees.
I thought this during Season 5 already..... But I think you are missing the point about a lot of episodes since Season 5, especially evident because you completely mistook the plot of "Brotherhooves Social" and missed a vital element of it that is necessary to understand the episode.
If you want, you can pull the joker card again and accuse me of insulting you, to not having to face my criticism, but I'm saying this nonetheless, because I think someone has to at some point:
The show hasn't become worse, you have just unlearnt to understand it and therefore, don't understand its nature and soul anymore.
4459007
I want to believe this is very sneaky sarcasm..... I really want to. But, with the things I've seen from this fandom, I fear you're actually serious with not liking the show anymore because the races of the mane characters aren't in perfect balance anymore since the Season 3 Finale.
4459111
This, however, is easy enough to spot and the best thing I'm reading here.*
Almost makes it up for me that I read this blog entry.
*Not saying the bar was high to begin with, but still.
4459325
I was actually being generous, MLP has really only been watchable until they brought in the annoying-yellow haired human to steal focus from the ponies... Not Sunset Shimmer, I'm talking of course about Meghan. Bonnie Zacharle screwed up the original creative vision!
4459301 You don't understand why I don't enjoy the show as much as I used to because your comprehension is bad, not because I haven't explained myself fully. You've never wanted to listen to anyone else's opinion. You've always responded to anything posted here that you disagree with like you are CORRECT and anyone who disagrees with you is WRONG.
I'm not going to explain it any further than that. If you're curious, go back and read older blog posts. I've always explained what I don't like in detail. I don't care if you don't understand it or find it convincing. You don't know jack about me or my motivations, and most of that is because you are unwilling to listen to anyone else, not because I haven't explained anything.
4459412
Pulling that strawpony argument on me won't help your point either. The argument of forcing your opinion on someone every time you correct someone who is obviously in the wrong is getting old.....
Just learn the difference between your opinion/taste and an objective flaw of the show and stop pretending the show is bad just for not catering to your interests, whatever they may be.
Not immaturely calling everything "bad" that you don't like makes the difference between being a decent person and being one with the nose in the clouds.
4459354
Sounds like Bonnie Zacherle was the spiritual predecessor of the executive who came up with EQG.
4459412
And please, spare me and everyone else the "I'm a special little snowflake who can't be happy with the show anymore and suffers from its terrible, terrible quality these days and you can never understand my feelings and my pain!" fuss too.
It's that kind of whiny entitlement why I'm staying away from many bronies these days.
If you can't find yourself liking MLP: FiM anymore, then this is solely on you. You can't blame the show for that.
4459488 You know, no one is making you follow him. I'm sure you can find a nice safe space somewhere in which no one expresses opinions different from your own. It's nice that you still find things to enjoy but browbeating others because they can't do the same is not going to make them agree with you.
I think everyone here has enjoyed the show in whole or in part and continues to do so even now. The problem is not them. It's not even entirely the show's fault. It's quite literally change.
In a fandom this diverse, with a show this popular, it's inevitable that something will change. This show hit so many points on the Venn diagrams at first that it attracted a lot of people. Unfortunately, new characters have been introduced, new plotlines, new writers. Some of those things were good, some bad, and different people interpret the same elements as good or bad depending on opinion.
All I can say is, be very glad you're still in the sweet spot for the Venn, and have a little understanding for those who feel disappointed. If you can't do that, find people who will agree with you, because it's clearly not here.
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I'm not browbeating him because he doesn't like the show anymore. I'm browbeating him because he acts entitled and like the show has jumped the shark just because he finds himself unable to enjoy it anymore.
As I said, special little snowflake behavior..... I don't have empathy with that.
He could even still like the show if he would come down from his high horse and admit that he only can't enjoy it anymore because he worked himself into a tizzy.
Because then he would see that the show hasn't even changed so much as he believes it did (aside from the obvious changes every long-running show goes through inevitably, like, a bigger cast with more characters and a more complex and developed plot), that its soul and core are still the same, and that he is merely not seeing it's still the same because he is unable to cope with the progression of its plot.
I wouldn't even care too much for that, if he wouldn't constantly fling shit at the show, and just do what every mature person would do, either adapting and learning again to love the show for what it is or to be quiet and move on.
Because definitely all of this complaining neither will do him any good nor will it make DHX descend in front of him and ask him how to write the show so that he can like it again.
Fact is, he acts like a grumpy, old grandpa who mourns about the "good old times" just because science has progressed and brought new inventions into the world, but while the world is largely still the same, paired with a big, fat portion of entitlement like a sour-tasting cherry on top.
This complaining and constant missing the point about episodes and accusing them of things that aren't even remotely true and just caused by his fear of change, or whatever mindset compels him to misconstrue so many things about them, goes on since the middle of Season 5 now and I only have so much patience.
As I said, the only reason I'm still following him is because I still have the slight hope he's getting back into writing again someday and because I still couldn't read most of his stories.
I'm saying it again, he should either learn to love the show again by overcoming whatever stuff is keeping him from that or leave with grace, but stopping to blame the dish for it that he is not able to taste its spice anymore.
It's tiring.
4459579 You're asking the same thing from him as he is from the show. Be what you want, or stop.
To be frank, I think you need to take a step back, find some people who enjoy the show and want to gush with you. You clearly need positivity. Trying to get people to feel good about a show they are disappointed in is an exercise in futility. Especially if you doing it by using negativity yourself. Somewhere there are happy people who like what's coming. Go find them.
4459325
Once upon a time, in the magical land of Equestria, an elder sister reluctantly harnessed the most powerful magic known to ponydom: the Elements of Harmony. Using the magic of the Elements of Harmony, she defeated her younger sister, and banished her permanently in the moon. The elder sister took on responsibility for both sun and moon and harmony has been maintained in Equestria for generations since.
The concept of Harmony was a huge part of what drew me to the show's world and mythos. The balance and symmetry involved, from the complex dynamics of the six Elements embodied by the main cast to the much more basic and traditional "night vs. day" embodied by the Princesses, were aesthetically and narratively pleasing. Harmony was a core tenet of the show -- arguably the core tenet, since it was what Faust and the production team chose to introduce in the first ninety seconds of the premiere as the setup for the entire series -- and Twilight's ascension finally shattered the balance that had grown increasingly strained by the end of the third season.
In the greater narrative, balance had already been disrupted at the end of Season 2 by the introduction of a third alicorn princess with an ill-defined power and role in the world. The first two alicorns balanced each other -- there's nothing to balance against Cadance. Closer to home, power dynamics among the Mane 6 were always somewhat strained, with Twilight's direct and deep-seated ties to the monarch and her role as the 'leader' of the Elements -- the one who makes it all complete -- but this was rarely explicitly an issue. However, Twilight's ascension marks both the complete abandonment of alicorns as unique beings and the end of the magical/tribal balance of the Mane 6, and the Elements themselves are returned to the Tree of Harmony in the next episode.
So, yes, I feel perfectly satisfied pointing to Twilight's ascension as the tipping point for me. There was rising action (Cadance) before, and falling action (loss of the Elements) after, but breaking the Mane 6 was the climax.
There are other, smaller issues for me -- the destruction of the treebrary, my favorite setpiece; the ponies being less "horsey" as time goes on; some of the Mane 6 achieving their lifelong dreams with relatively little fanfare -- but personally the issues with Harmony are why I don't enjoy the show now nearly as much as I did in the early seasons.
4459723
I have plenty of places to go for this and people to talk with about that. But arguing with someone, in the hope to make them realize where they are in the wrong and therefore, change their view on the show again when I see them missing the point about the show (or worse, insulting it), is part of my passion for the show and interwoven with it.
What you asked from me is something that you can't simply ask a true fan of the show, who can actually see its values and does not superimpose himself on it.
Asking someone who is a fan of the show to not defend it against such obviously false claims and against insults is an exercise in sadism.
Aside from that, the case with xjuggernaughtx here is even worse than the usual "Muh, that episode is so bad!" complaining from your average brony. xjuggernaughtx straight up imagines things about the show.
Just below he said that most of the episodes of Season 6 aren't character-driven anymore, just to get proven wrong by me when I listed him a lot of examples of character-driven episodes of Season 6, and even already in which way character-driven one episode of Season 7 is probably going to be. And yet, he shrugged it off and still insists Season 6, for the most part, isn't character-driven anymore.
Or when he says that two-parters of the show are rushed, even though they contain everything you need to understand what happened and to see that the events make sense, so that it clearly can be seen that the two-parter is enough for everything to unfold naturally.
This is some level of imagination that I would be almost inclined to call "hallucination". As I said, he can't see the forest from the trees anymore. This is the problem here.
If it would be actually true what he says about episodes, then it would be fine, but this here is a case where he just does not understand this show and its episodes anymore, whatever that is caused by, and that leads to him actively badmouthing the show, because apparently, he deems all those things he gets wrong as facts.
That's the thing at stake here. He has lost his ability to properly analyze and understand the episodes of the show, as opposed to the show having changed for the worse like he claims it.
And that is an issue that is just too grating and a view of the show that is too downright disturbing to not comment on it.
Again, if you ask me as a true fan of the show who understands it to just sit here and ignore this, then you exercise yourself in sadism.
That is not his call to make, to call for the show to end. The show is still the same and as good as in his "good old times" of Season 1 and Season 2, much better even, and many people can still see this. Him calling for the show to end because he has unlearnt to understand and enjoy it, is basically him saying "I can't enjoy the show, so no one else should enjoy it either." and this is the most despicable expression of selfishness I've seen in my life.
But if he can't enjoy the show anymore, if he can't see what it is anymore, and only ends up insulting it and badmouthing it because of that, then I'm perfectly in my right to tell HIM to "step away". Because being able to insult the show really seems to be the only reason why he still follows it anymore.
It would be best for him to take this whiny, entitled attitude somewhere else. This fandom is not the place for it.
4460023 Good lord. So essentially you find it physically painful to not share your opinions? You poor thing! Well, I certainly hope the show never disappoints you. It would be harder to yell at the show staff than it is to yell at xjug.
4460023 Right. You've left several thousand words of freaking out on my blog but I'm the whiny, entitled snowflake. It's like you have no level of self-awareness. Or reading comprehension. Or ability to distinguish nuance.
It's almost like you spend most of your time in your own fantasy world where you get to be right all the time, and then feel extremely threatened by outside opinions.
Look, I'm going to spell this out one more time because you are a child who can't understand that something less than one hundred percent love isn't hate. I still like MLP. I don't like every single thing about it. I don't like it as much as I used to. I'm going to blog about what I do and don't like. You've never made any level of convincing argument on any topic that I've ever seen you speak on because you operate from the position that there is an intrinsic correctness to your viewpoint and that everyone else has to come around to that or they are wrong. There is no correct here. I can find an episode poorly paced that you find properly paced. THERE IS NO RIGHT ANSWER! IT'S A MATTER OF TASTE! There are no jokes that are funny to everyone. There are no stories that please all.
No one here needs you to explain the show to them. It's made for ages four to eight. You don't have some kind of ultra-insight into it that the rest of us miss. It's not directed by David Lynch or Fellini. It's specifically designed to be understandable to young minds.
Grow. The. Fuck. Up.
4459896
For the Mane Six, you have your priorities wrong. You let your enjoyment of the show getting affected by such a small thing, that six of the mane characters are not completely balanced in the races they were born as anymore and deem this single, tiny detail that has not much semblance to the plot of the show and fades in comparison with everything else combined as more important than everything else that makes up this show and that makes it so good.
Wanna hear a different view on Twilight becoming an Alicorn?
Breaking that racial balance between them that upsets you so much made the show feel more realistic. While such a coincidence that six friends happen to be members of all the three pony races, with two members per race, is not completely impossible, it is far more likely that six friends won't end up representing all three pony races in equal measure.
The fact they are the Elements of Harmony doesn't change this either. The Elements of Harmony are about their personalities, the values they represent, not the race they belong to or how their bodies look. If you really think they represented each pony race in equal measure because they are the Elements of Harmony, then you failed to understand the Elements of Harmony to begin with.
And I'm not saying that Twilight becoming an Alicorn was necessary, and especially not that the show would be flawed without that (as I said, coincidences can happen), but I'm saying that it isn't a bad thing either.
As I said, it makes the connection with her friends and the bond between the Elements of Harmony feel more realistic. And that is just one example for why it was a good thing for the show that she became an Alicorn.
This is something that you completely overlooked, and that you still overlook (same as the thing with Cadance), because you rather joined the roundel of getting into a tizzy over imagining that Hasbro influenced the show and demanded Twilight becoming a princess (something that was confirmed wrong a long time ago already, it was all M.A. Larson's idea, yes the guy who's writing for the show since Season 1 and still worked together directly with Lauren Faust herself) to sell more Alicorn toys.
How you overlooked all of this that I described and explained here is really a prime demonstration for how this fandom gets paranoid very easily when it sees a new toy popping up and how this leads to it overlooking vital plot elements of the show, and as consequence, completely misunderstanding the show then.
See and this is where you are wrong. Have you really not noticed it? There IS a counterpart to Cadance, someone who balances her out. It's just not who you would imagine it to be.
Since balance seems to be so important to you, how come you never saw this?
I won't tell you who it is here. I'll let you figure this out for yourself. I think it is way more beneficial if you learn this on your own.
I've never called for the show to end, but I can't say 4458993 doesn't have a point there. The first two seasons are the only ones I actually enjoyed re-watching. Ever since Princess Molestia shut down, I'm just in it for the fanfiction I guess.
Also, lol at the "you mustn't express dislike of what I like, reeeee" guy.
4460099 I would say that I most actively enjoyed the show for the first two seasons, but seasons four and five had a lot of good episodes. I haven't watched three in a while, so I'm a little hazy there. However, I do think that the overall quality has been on a slow decline since season three. I'm hoping that once the new writers get a few episodes under their belts that things will improve, but I'm afraid as long as Starlight continues to be a main focus of things that I won't enjoy it. At least, unless they are willing to do a LOT more work on her.
And yes. I've been dealing with that dude's general insanity for years.
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Oh, so suddenly it's a matter of taste again? That's what I'm trying to get across to you all the time, because I don't see this thinking reflected in your comments.
You have that habit of getting frustrated over the show's direction and then blaming the show for it. As well as pretending your taste is more important than everyone else's and that the show has to cater to your taste to be good.
You completely refuse to acknowledge that it's good anyway, just good in a different way, if it doesn't cater to your taste, but rather does its own thing.
When you say that the plot of an episode is rushed or that you want the show to get better, then you don't express this as your opinion, then you state this as a fact, even though it isn't one.
I also see this certain type of arrogance in your comments, especially in this particular answer to me, where you think that it isn't possible that one single brony can understand the show better than everyone else.
Just because the majority of the fandom thinks in a certain way about certain episodes of the show and there is a common consensus about that, doesn't mean they are all right. A majority is not automatically in the right.
And with how often I see members of this fandom getting such obvious plot points in the show wrong, I'm inclined to believe that it's either really just me who truly understands this show (anymore?) or that everyone else who does is just quiet and lets the masses complain without commentary.
In the latter case, I see it as even more important to speak up on this kind of stuff.
Anyway, if you are really aware that certain things are just a matter of taste, then you have problems to word it that way and to express that in your comments.
Because every time you write a blog entry about the show, you come across as a prick who just wants to bash it and that is the one thing that riles me up here.
You should really go and fix your wording, if what you said up there is truly what you think.
But, letting that aside, and that is something I'm still doing, I'm challenging that you say the show has changed so much that it isn't like you came to enjoy it back in Season 1 anymore.
That is simply not true. This isn't about opinions or how you and me view things differently here. This is simply about the stonecold fact that the heart of the show is still the same, but that you can't see this anymore.
Sure, there are new characters to take the spotlight, there are new plot elements, there is more worldbuilding and the show has gotten deeper and more complex overall, but, the values that you, and everyone else, started to love back in Season 1 when it began are all still there.
The overall tone of the show, its core, its heart, its soul, are still the same as in Season 1, yet, and this is where I challenge you, you can't see this anymore for some reason and believe in a substantial change of it that isn't there and never happened in the first place.
And I'm trying to figure out why, how you can all off a sudden not recognize anymore what this show is, and how your perception of it could change so drastically.
This is what I don't get here.
As I said in an earlier comment, you can shrug off my words and continue to villainize me further. But what you say about the show lately doesn't make sense, because regardless of new characters and more worldbuilding, the show is still the same and has always been.
This is not my opinion, this is just a fact, presented by what you can actually see on-screen.
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And highlighting this, because this is where it shows how your wording is screwed up.
What you mean is not that you THINK the show is on a slow decline since Season 3. What you mean is you BELIEVE it is.
To say you think something is the case, is the equivalent of saying "It is the case, matter of factly." while saying you believe something is the case is the equivalent of saying "I'm not satisfied with its quality since Season 3 anymore, personally, and feel like it's declining."
The latter is what you mean, yet what you expressed is the former, with the way you worded your sentence.
You make yourself look like a prick and mindless hater and you can't blame me for getting riled up for this, as long as you don't know how to express your opinion properly.
But I guess saying all of that is futile anyway, now. The moment where you reach for insults when someone challenges you, is where you prove their point.
Calling someone insane for disproving your points and correcting you, because you don't want to admit that you just stood corrected, is only creating a poor image of yourself, not the one you insulted.
4460144 The show is definitely not the same.
It hasn't been the same since season 4, which is when the Hasbro execs started sticking their fingers in the pot. Again, glad you still enjoy it, but please don't speak nonsense anymore. You can say there are still things to enjoy, but claiming nothing has changed is blatantly false.
4460081
I don't have the time or energy to break this apart line by line, though it would be a fun little exercise. Instead, I'm going to cut to the core problem with your entire reply and suggest that you think very hard in the future before using the second person in your responses to other people. You made a lot of statements in your reply like "you have your priorities wrong" and "you rather joined the roundel of getting into a tizzy" which are all assumptions you've made about me, my thought process, and my opinions that are, frankly, incorrect. Ironically you did it in a very condescending way, which is fun on a meta level for the rest of us but not particularly useful in terms of you arguing your position vis-à-vis alicorns, Harmony, and the quality of the show.
You don't have authority over me: you don't get to dictate my opinions. The reverse, of course, is true as well: I don't have authority over your opinions. My enjoyment (or lack thereof) of something doesn't impact your enjoyment (or lack thereof) of that thing unless you decide it does. I think it's wonderful that you love the show so much; I'm happy for you. I do not love the show as much, and that's okay.
4460156
Two of these things are synonymous; one of them is not:
The latter is a statement of objective fact. It would only be acceptable if presented as a thesis in a persuasive argument backed up by concrete supporting facts, data, and analyses. Had xjug said that, you'd have a rhetorical basis for criticism.
However, the former two are statements of subjective opinion, and we're back to: You don't have authority over other peoples' opinions. You can explain why you believe your opinion is superior; you can explain why you believe other peoples' opinions are inferior; but you cannot simply state that other peoples' opinions are incorrect. (I mean, you can, but we're all just going to write you off, because that's not how debate works.)
Good luck to you.
4460144
I think someone needs their thinking checked, not their wording.
By the way, Merriam Webster on thinking:
Thinking, therefore, takes individual's perception, opinions, and biases into account. You are objectively wrong.
4460156
lol
There's nothing to correct. These are all my opinions. It just that all of the other people who read these blogs don't need it spelled out in one hundred and fifty point font that each and every critique I have of the show isn't me saying that objectively the show is bad. When I say that Twilight has lost her sparkle, everyone else understands that what I mean is "In my opinion, Twilight just doesn't hook me like she used to", not "Twilight is factually and inarguably worse now for every viewer."
But then there's you, freaking out because you don't understand these things.
4460099
I've always wanted it to die before it got bad.
I didn't appreciate season 2 for what it was when it aired. Seasons 3 and 4 were worth struggling through for season 5. But that was a fluke, and I don't expect we'll get anything anywhere near as good, barring the occasional flash of brilliance (which even season 3 had). So it's definitely got the potential to get far, far worse before it gets any better.