About My Review on “Rollercoaster of Friendship” · 5:47pm Jul 29th, 2018
I know it’s been a while since I posted ”My Thoughts on Rollercoaster of Friendship”, but, when I looked at the other places I posted my review a while back, such as the MLP Wikia, I suddenly started to find that some of those very words I said were not really what I wanted to say. They didn’t come out right.
So, I decided that I was also going to post what I explained on the wikia to here, in case some of you guys thought what I said came across as something you didn’t like.
This is what I really wanted to say:
I saw “Rollercoaster of Friendship” recently, and I thought it’d be nice to express my thoughts on it to you all.
Anyway...
I thought it was an interesting episode, there was lots of great comedy, and it was a perfectly character-driven plot if I may say. I especially enjoyed the focus on Applejack & Rarity.
However, I do think that the way everyone is interacting with each other needs to be toned down a little bit? It’s nothing personal, but, there were certain things about the way each character interacted, such as Rarity & Applejack, that made me a little uncomfortable, and it made me wonder if Confalone is forgetting that everyone is supposed to be friends and nothing more. I have felt the same way with some parts of “Forgotten Friendship” & FiM’s “The Break Up Break Down”, as well as the book series written by Michael Vogel & Nicole Dubuc.
I know it doesn’t seem as different, but, if you look closely, I reworded some things to really get my thought to come out right.
Does it explain anything?
I, too, was uncomfortable with the lesbianism.
I only saw true friendship nothing else
4909926
Did you see the review I made?
4909930
Yes.
Like I said, Applejack and Rarity are just very good friends, nothing more. The only lesbian couple I possibly approve would be Lyra and Bon Bon.
Still need to watch the special though. I'll wait till the extended version comes out. Extended versions are always great.
You are aware that the target demographic of the show is still preteen girls with parents willing to buy merchandise, yes?
Sure you're gonna find some things here and there that were put in as nods towards the 'accidental' fan base (and parents who use the show as a means to spend time with their kids), but you kinda have to 'Want' to look at MLP and spot homoeroticism enough to see something you find questionable.
Basically: Unless you have a screenshot of the Mane Six kissing, any narrative you interpret as romantic is a narrative that you made yourself.
How about we save the "These horses are being gay" for fan fiction, eh?
4909926
Of wasn't lesbianism per se, they just have a very strong friendship. Sometimes, girls are very close and it seems like they're more than friends. I, as a female, can recognize this (This is in no way meant to insult you in any way if it does, I just thought it was important to know).
4910014
Many have speculated this to be lesbianism on the grounds that this was more intimacy that those two in-particular have previously shown.
4910008
Well, you’re right about that.
I don’t want to be looking at it as anything but friendship. The reason I thought that was because there’s just so many people wanting lesbians in the show that it’s hard to tell whether the fan base is starting to influence them into doing it or not.
4910019
Here's one simple reason why you're not gonna see main characters suddenly 'be gay' no matter what any part of the fan base says:
The target demographic is the only audience who actually 'matters' to the people who work on the show. When the target audience is happy, people get to keep their jobs.
Breathe
4910014
I agree with everything you just said.
4910028
Don’t forget that the main reason the Pony and Human versions of the main characters came together is to become friends, as well as learn about friendship & teach it to others. Making them anything more would just take away the real goal behind this series.
4910032
The real 'goal' is merchandise. The target demographic is below the age where puberty hits.
Even the straight couples don't really matter to the narrative, so neither would gay couples.
If you really wanted to get into the bare bones of the characters as written; you'd spot efforts to make them appear to be Closeted Asexual (not physically attracted to any gender or gender identity), except for token moments where they adhere to culturally standard gender roles (or at least pretend to since they don't want to come out as Ace).
I'll show myself out before things get downright silly.
Blessed be
4910038
I always thought that the real goal Lauren Faust wanted to give the show was for audiences to learn about friendship, really.
4910920
That may have been Lauren's mission statement, but the main function of any business is to make a profit.
Sure Lauren had noble ideas and wanted to execute them according to the direction she wanted to go in; but Lauren's name wasn't on the checks that paid the writers, artists, voice actors, ECT.
She got the thumbs up from Hasbro to reboot a franchise that is their intellectual proterty; but MLP never suddenly stopped being Hasbro's intellectual property.