Help! My Heart is Full of Pony! - Filling the Void · 1:16am Sep 28th, 2020
A lot of us have been looking for something to fill the pony void since the show ended almost a year ago.
Today, I discovered the first season of Lauren Faust's 2019 Netflix series, DC Superhero Girls (not to be confused with her DC shorts from 2014).
I have to say, it feels a lot like pony.
Obviously, there is no other universe out there like Equestria, and a show about superheroes is going to have a lot more, well...hitting stuff than My Little Pony did. But there's something about the way the ensemble gels together - the way they feel like friends - the way the characters' inner lives are explored through situational hijinks - the stories' emphasis on friendship. It feels like pony. It feels like home.
Many others have drawn parallels between the main six characters of DC Superhero Girls and the Mane Six of MLP, [see picture], and those parallels are impossible to ignore. These archetypes inject a bit of familiarity into the story, and exude the type of warmth and energy that made FiM great to begin with, but they're not copies or rehashes. They're fully fleshed out individuals with their own issues, hopes, dreams, and fears.
With Lauren Faust running the show, M.A. Larson on as head writer, Tara Strong voicing Batgirl, and so many overlapping themes, DC Superhero Girls is a worthy spiritual successor to My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
Discuss.
-Sprocket
I very much agree! I watched just a couple of episodes early on ( I know, I need to catch up!) and I felt the same connection with the characters. They weren't just the archetypal super heroes. They were real people with feelings and emotions. It definitely felt real and true, which made me continue to watc. Just like My Little Pony brought Friendship to life and kept me watching since the first moment I saw it.
"since the show ended almost a year ago"
...Wow. I guess it has been that long, hasn't it?
I'm not sure I'd heard of the show before (I watch very little television these days, and what I do is mostly old documentaries on YouTube), but thanks for sharing, and I'm glad you're enjoying it. :)