How I feel about GEN 5 so far · 8:00pm Sep 29th, 2021
After watching the GEN 5 MLP movie, I realized that I'm not going to embrace everything about the fandom or the films and shows produced. I have serious doubts about this upcoming generation. In my honest opinion, I feel that GEN 5 wants to cater to everyone. It uses nostalgia and squeaky clean writing to ensure mass productivity and profit. I think it wants to be a continuation of GEN 4 and a reboot as it throws things away that GEN 4 established to cater to its own narrative while at the same time teasing and baiting fans into thinking there's more. I simply cannot fall in love with it for those reasons and more. It's not the writers of the movie or the show, the voice actors, the director, or anyone's fault. This is Hasbro, they want what's best for the company and don't care about fan theories, or us Bronies. We're just Bank accounts and they want to drain us buying their merchandise while consuming whatever they produce. They also want to target the younger audience so what we want comes second to that regardless. They don't want things to be complicated, they want things to be safe and profitable. Again, if this was just a reboot I wouldn't have any problems, if they want to build a new universe of their own that's fine. I would have liked it a lot better if GEN 4 was just a show or a comic book to the ponies in GEN 5. But they deliberately put in dozens of easter eggs and have so much to answer in regards to what they've changed I don't think any explanation or theory can do it well enough. They will most likely go for a bottom-of-the-barrel reason why the three tribes hate each other and distrust each other. I personally feel like it's a slap in the face to everyone who loved GEN 4 despite the fact I actually liked the movie. But they should have made a clear decision, do a reboot or a continuation, not try to do both. I think it will be years from now before I really give GEN 5 a chance; most likely after I've exhausted all of my fanfiction ideas for GEN 4. Even then, most likely, I won't embrace it, and I will probably be done with the fandom and with Fimfiction before GEN 5 is over. But this is far in the future. I wouldn't say I like planning things in the future because things constantly change.
But I am planning out the rest of my stories. I can at least say that my Season 5 stories will start in October as I wrap up my Season 3 and 4 ideas and a few extra stories I need to finish in my backlog. I won't even touch season 6 until probably around May of 2022. So, for now, I will continue writing for GEN 4, blog my thoughts on the GEN 4 episodes, and even blog about the GEN 5 show when it comes out. But I won't write fanfiction for GEN 5 as I focus my efforts on making better stories for GEN 4. I'm just writing out how I feel, and if you read this, don't let my doubts and how I feel cloud your own feelings about GEN 5. These are my own personal feelings they shouldn't change how you or others feel and what you love or don't love.