Something I want to bring up that concerns me: · 8:35pm Sep 16th, 2017
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do." - Benjamin Franklin
I just want to ask, and I'm not commenting on any one specific user in particular, but I pose a question. There are a few people out there who just whine and complain that the show's gone and jumped the shark and that it isn't good anymore or some such shit.
Now, the question.
I'm not going out of my way to be a bully, despite how this may sound, but if you're not going to watch the show anymore, why should anyone listen to your opinion on it? You haven't seen what you're complaining about frankly, so you're just looking like a whiny idiot.
Thing is, shows do have to grow and change otherwise they just stay stale. You need to shake things up a little. Do you really want to watch the same characters going through the same motions over and over again? Honestly, this next bit may sound harsh and that I'm acting like a bully and I'm probably throwing gas onto a very delicate fire, but really... If you ask me calling yourself a "True fan" by only accepting things that have happened before you stopped watching the show as canon is just idiotic.
Really, what you're saying is: "I don't like things changing, everything is better the way it was before!" Or, to put it another way:
To quote Wikipedia on the No true Scotsman fallacy:
No true Scotsman is a kind of informal fallacy in which one attempts to protect a universal generalization from counterexamples by changing the definition in an ad hoc fashion to exclude the counterexample. Rather than denying the counterexample or rejecting the original claim, this fallacy modifies the subject of the assertion to exclude the specific case or others like it by rhetoric, without reference to any specific objective rule ("no true Scotsman would do such a thing"; i.e., those who perform that action are not part of our group and thus criticism of that action is not criticism of the group).[
Really, if you're not going to watch any new episodes, then your right to complain about said episodes doesn't hold much weight in any real arguments about them.
I apologize if I've offended anybody with this, and I know I'll probably lose a few followers but I'm just tired of drama like this. There's no reason for it to exist in the damn first place. I just had to get that off my chest.
I think that in every fandom you will encounter people who are a part of the community for many different reasons. For example, I have lots of friends on this site who don't even like the show. They just like certain fan fictions and fan animations about it.
I personally really like the show and am looking forward to the movie but I respect that everyone has a different view on the matter.
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Yeah, and I agree with that. Hell, there's a reason why I liked "Stranger than Fanfiction" so much and the character of Quibble Pants. It's just that when you pretty much cry the show's ruined forever for some stupid reason it reaches the point your opinions hold no real value.
4670548 There are fans like that in every fandom. I wouldn't really worry about it. You should just focus on what you personally like about the show. :)
Heh. Have to agree completely.
What's worst is how those ones are the loudest so it's unfortunately what you encounter the most rather then the people who enjoy the show or are fans of fan contact pr simply moved on to other things as they lost interests. Leaving the screaming children to be the only ones anyone hears about.
Also you didn't come off as harsh at all. You were quote polite and of some one says something they are just looking for a fight and nit worth the time.
So, there is a term for these people. They're the "repetitive vocal minority."
They seem more numerous than they are because they travel together.
Personally, one part of me thinks the mane six is a bit more diluted thanks to starlight glimmer, but it's still high quality in nearly every aspect.
I agree with everything you said. I will admit I think Starlight Glimmer being added to the group didn't really offer anything different for the main 6. Otherwise, I still love MLP.
The points you brought up are exactly why I don't like fans like that. They leave just because Twilight got wings. Really? Oh I'm sorry, did you want her to do a magic rain boom instead?.... plus, the Season 7 episode Fame and Misfortune covered this topic. It doesn't matter what the fans think needs to be in the show as long as we all learn to make new friends learn life lessons from the show.
In addition, this is why I don't like PAW Patrol anymore... please let me explain first... in season 1, PAW Patrol was one of the best new TV shows I had seen. Come Season 2, and the creaters didn't know what to do, so any ideas that came after season 1 was the equal to "lets do the opposite of what we did in season 1 and see if it works, then if it does, let's teach very little to no educational values at all or make a good show/characters, then if it is still good, treat the whole thing like a toy commercial in disguise".
I can't even begin to describe how bad PAW Patrol has become. And stealing from their fans doesn't help either. I would rather watch MLP anyday than watch PAW Patrol seasons 2-4. If a show does not get better or as good as past seasons and doesn't follow through with making good stories, characters, songs, etc. and stuff that the audience, older audience or people who know how a story should work expect, then it fails because it is no longer quality good as a franchise. It fails to meet fan expectations, follow it's own advertising, fails to be a likeable show in every way you would expect after Season 1 onward, and it fails to deliver the quality of education and entertainment value any common sense person would know about. "Educational" my flank!
MLP: For the whole series: 100% Yes. A-B Grades. Cue the party cannons!
PAW Patrol: Season 1: A, Season 2: D, Seasons 3 and 4: F. Well ain't that the understatement of the day...