I wonder if G4 stories will still continue to be published and get featured, even after G5 comes out. Or will this site become saturated with G5 fics, and the G4 stories fade into the background?

I was a latecomer to the fandom, and there's still so many story ideas set exclusively in G4 that I want to explore, but I doubt I'll finish them all before G5 comes out.

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I don't see any reason why I wouldn't. The vast majority of what this fandom is built around is G4 related; it's kind of its core foundation.

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Why wouldn't I?

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Of course. To me, it's no different than now I can jump from reading one fic with the School of Friendship or even the post-timeskip characters to another that starts from seasons 1 or 2. It's just another option for a starting point. There's no reason for it to make the older stuff obsolete or something.

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I plan to still read and write G4 stories, regardless of G5 - there is no reason not to enjoy them both .

And whether the site becomes saturated with G5 stuff will depend on the quality and popularity of the show - it didn't happen in the case of Equestria Girls or Pony Life, for example .

Absolutely.

G4 deserves remembrance.

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Definitely! Just because G5 is new and shiny doesn't mean that there won't still be good/interesting G4 things to read. I do expect that G5 fics will be popular until the 'new thing' appeal wears off, and maybe the first thing for some people to read, but we can't forget what G5 is the future of...

I can't help but wonder if maybe someday some potential pic readers may be like Sunny, seeking and exploring the past (in a positive setting, of course).

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I still plan on reading and writing G4 fics. Like it says on my profile, "For the true fan there is room in our hearts for both G4 and G5."....and I will have crossovers too. It is disappointing to see people bashing one generation or another solely because it isn't what we want. One thing we must remember is that prior generations are to thank for where we are today....just imagine, if it weren't for Bonnie Zacherle, MLP wouldn't even exist.

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I think there will be equal amounts of both. Seeing as G5's foundations are G4, I believe that G4 fics will remain.

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You acting like G5 with it's singular barebones movie that has barely any real characters in it can possibly hold a candle to what came out of the G4 Fandom? Hell, the My Little Pony: A New Generation movie sounds exactly like Hasbro trying to reinvent a story that was... already... told...

The Main Character is a social outcast from her community who is forced to leave her hometown because of a matter involving a Unicorn who embodies the emotional traits and qualities likened closely with one of the Mane Six from the old show. After leaving her home, the Main Character and a Unicorn wind up getting captured by other Ponies only to get away and soon stumble across a location from the old world that would give the main characters a chance to try and fix it again. Taking advantage of a music festival; that is exacerbated by a Stallion who has a chip on his shoulder about maintaining law and order, our group then heads into a forest, then goes into a town that is being controlled by a red Earth Pony who has become a despot, the despot is later defeated, and then later on still; that thing the Main Character was looking for is all brought together again and the world is fixed while the Main Character is now viewed as a Hero...

...Those hack writers just told a trimmed down TV-Y7 version of Fallout: Equestria, and claimed it as their own writing! Sunny Starscout, Hitch Trailblazer, Izzy Moonbow, and Sprout Cloverleaf are nothing more than pale imitations of Littlepip, Deadshot Calamity, Velvet Remedy, and Red Eye respectively: lacking in all the complexities and nuance that Kkat gave to them to make them more flawed and relatable to the audience.

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You do realise that Fallout Equestria is itself a retelling of the first Fallout game, right?

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There is also going to be a series. Also, to prove you completely wrong, typing 'G5' into the search box produces hundreds of results for stories. If the movie is as barebones and dull as you claim it is, how has it resulted in this outpouring of brony creativity?

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because Writers are going to Write. The only surefire downside to G5 at this moment is a serious lack of both Lore and World-Building: two crucial aspects to any aspiring writer and crucial elements to any story to be taken seriously by the audience. The only bits and pieces of Lore to G5 is a loose connection to the events of G4 without anything to help us justify the events that had happened after G4 to cause G5 to happen... aside from the casual theories postulating that Celestia made a terrible mistake of making Twilight Sparkle the singular central authority figure for Equestria before she and Luna left, and that the pressures of leadership naturally went to Twilight's head because even though Celestia is constantly obsessed with Twilight fulfilling some vague great Destiny she has, Twilight has no natural drive or even desire to actually rule Equestria and had just surrendered herself to those whims because of her own singular desire to appease Celestia at any cost.

At least in Fallout Equestria, there was already a well-established Lore to things that easily and concisely told what happened during G4 to cause the events of The Last Day that saw the nation of Equestria burned by Zebra Megaspells: Due to ancient Zebra superstitions telling that the Stars were evil beings that wanted to eradicate all life and that Princess Luna who was once Nightmare Moon is seen as the Zebras' anti-christ. Luna who just recently returned from her Banishment and returned to her duties as a Princess wanted to make a mark for herself outside of Celestia's shadow, something small at first that could grow into something bigger that would allow for Luna to stand beside her older sibling, and so Celestia went about giving Luna her own School to teach aspiring Unicorns with, and of the three locations suitable to build Lunas School at, Celestia picked out a Littlehorn Valley, which had a small crescent moon-shaped canyon nearby (as part of a joke she planned to tell Luna about "sending Lunas Students to the Moon") as the site for Lunas' School for Gifted Unicorns. However the location of this valley as it turned out was very close to Zebra Lands when it was built, naturally the Zebras kept their distance from Equestria because of Princess Luna; however tragedy would strike one night when a Zebra Refugee Convoy was making a pilgrimmage through the area and had stopped for shelter outside of Lunas' School. The events that had transpired had been lost to time over who made the first move, only that the end result was the same: a necromatic Pink Cloud of Zebra make was unleashed inside of Lunas' School for Gifted Unicorns as both the Zebra Refugees and Equestrian Unicorn Students and Faculty were killed in what would become known as "The Littlehorn Massacre".

Blame was tossed around between Equestria and the Zebras over who had shot first, and in the middle of it all: Celestia felt immense sorrow and guilt, she was the one responsible for picking out Littlehorn Valley as the Schools' site because she wanted to make a joke about it to Luna when the school was revealed, and now hundreds of Unicorns; Unicorns that had wanted to be with Princess Luna were now dead. Celestia would abdicate the throne and give control of Equestria to Princess Luna, feeling herself unfit to rule after such a devastating loss of life. Since this wasn't a government that Luna was familiar with due to having been gone for 1000 years and not really understanding much about how the political climate has changed in the last millennium; Luna decided to wage war against the Zebras, and to restructure the Equestrian Government from the ground-up to revolve around her and six new Ministries that was each led by one of the Elements of Harmony.

However as the war took on a more horrifying turn with the development of more advanced weapons pumped out by Applejacks' Ministry of Technology and her family-owned businesses like Ironshod Firearms, and research into more advanced magical algorithms and spells by Twilight's Ministry of Arcane Sciences, Fluttershy felt that this was the wrong approach to ending the war with the Zebras, and had devised for herself and the Ministry of Peace to come up with the perfect method to not sow death; but to spread life. By layering multiple spell matrices atop of one-another to strengthen the effect of a single spell, the Megaspell was born; and it would find the perfect chance to show its potential in the aftermath of an intense battle between an Earth Pony company led by Big Macintosh and his dying squadmate Applesnack. The unleashed Megaspell managed to restore the dying Ponies back to full health again, however Fluttershy made a grave miscalculation and also used that same Megaspell to revive the dying Zebras as well: resulting in the intense battle being drawn further out now that BOTH sides were back to fighting strength again.

It was some time after that battle that Big Macintosh would introduce his new XO Sergeant Applesnack to his younger sister that the green colt was so enamoured by: Applejack at a party being hosted by Vinyl Scratch and Pinkie Pie. However the festivities were cut short by Twilight Sparkle who had arrived to do an intervention with Pinkie Pie. Ever since the War began; Pinkie had been relying on her Pinkie Sense to help her predict catastrophes and surprise domestic attacks within Equestria being done by Zebra infiltrators and sympathizers; all well-and-good, however Pinkies' personality took a drastic turn for the worse after coming into contact with PartyTime Mint-Als, a Zebra-based drug that heightens ones' focus in tough situations, and it proved to be too addictive for Pinkie as it supercharged her Pinkie Senses to heights impossible for her that it was straining her friendship with Twilight.

Much later still, Celestia tried to sue both the Zebras and Equestria for peace that she had organized a summit to be held at Shattered Hoof Ridge in order to bring reason and negotiations to the table again. Only for things to go pear-shaped when Zebra Assassins tried to use this as a chance to cripple the Equestrian government since so many military leaders were in-attendance. It wasn't known who fired the shot at Princess Celestia, if it was a Zebra Assassin trying to prove their cause of aggression against Equestria, or if it was an Equestrian trying to prevent Celestia from being taken prisoner by the Zebras; only that the bullet instead hit Big Macintosh who leapt into the way and died, he would become memorialized in Equestria as the Hero of Shattered Hoof Ridge with a statue built to him in Ponyville with his surviving family attending his funeral. It was after The Battle of Shattered Hoof Ridge that would see Applejack go about designing the Power Armor system for the Equestrian Military in order to prevent the deaths of more of their soldiers; with Staff Sergeant Applesnack becoming the first test pilot for the Power Armor and joining as part of Applejacks' personal security detail... and private lover.

At around that same time, Stable-Tec would be established: a civilian utilities and tech company that was made up by the Cutie Mark Crusaders as its chief executives: Apple Bloom who originally helped Princess Celestia in designing Lunas' School for Gifted Unicorns, Sweetie Belle a socialite that was well-known for her singing and her music, and Scootaloo who was the face of the company. Stable-Tec was brought in to help create a miracle for the Equestrian Government, too many of their Pegasi were marching off to wage war with the Zebras along with most of Cloudsdayle being repurposed from developing weather into a mobile shipyard meant to factory produce a new breed of Airship known as the Cloudship. Because of this Wartime importance to the Pegasi, the weather in other parts of Equestria was suffering, and if things did not turn around soon there would be famines. Apple Bloom would go about developing a new system to make sure that the weather in Equestria could be manageable again: through the Single Pony Project, a collection of 80+ Towers arranged around Equestria that could help the Pegasi to automate the Weather for a prolonged stretch of time that was governed by a Crusader Maneframe: one of three prototype Supercomputers that was developed by Stable-Tec that used Megaspells designed to calculate the precise algorithms to create weather conditions that could be generated by the Towers to create the right weather conditions needed for the various regions.

Things were only proceeding downhill from that point onwards: with Ironshod Firearms developing Anti-Tank Weaponry that coincidentally was highly-effective against Power Armor; enough so that Zebra infiltrators managed to copy over the designs and insert an incendiary Talisman to create a semi-automatic Rifle for their troops that can pierce Equestrian Power Armor and cook the Earth Pony operators alive. This wound up souring relations between Applejack and her cousin Braeburn who operated in Ironshod Firearms' R&D. Seeing that there was some advantage to Power Armor; but that the suits were only designed for Earth Ponies, Rainbow Dash in the Ministry of Awesome would ask for Applejack to help them develop an airborne variant of Power Armor that could be used by Pegasus soldiers after having seen most of the Wonderbolts die in an assault by the Zebras new rifles. Things would only take a turn for the worse when Rainbow Dash found out that Fluttershy managed to share the calculations needed to create Megaspells with the Zebras, having developed them initially to only be able to heal grievous wounds there was no way that the Zebras would be able to weaponize them... only for the Zebras to start development on Balefire Bombs that were reinforced by the Megaspells to deliver a higher yield of damage.

Rainbow Dash and her Ministry of Awesome was being seen more and more as a joke by the citizens of Equestria due to them not really providing any public services; when in truth the MoA had the purpose of operating Equestrias' Black-Ops missions and had arranged for the public arrest of Zecora on the premise of her being in-league with the Zebra Empire, when in-truth Zecora was a double-agent that was working with both the MoA and the Ministry of Morale in spying on Zebra Infiltrator activities for Equestria that would use her public status as a so-called enemy of Equestria to spy on the saboteurs to find out their next moves. However this was a tactic that would play out horribly in one operation: during a public party where Applejack and the Ministry of Technology was present, Zecora was to be released to infiltrate a meeting with other saboteurs and that she escaped during the festivities as a cover story that would be backed up by an injured guard. Unfortunately when Zecora tried to make her escape look convincing the guard that released ended up being accidentally killed just when Applesnack came downstairs and saw a terrified Zecora standing over the cooling corpse of a soldier, Applesnack proceeded to kill Zecora just as Applejack came downstairs to see her lover killing one of her oldest friends; resulting in a strong hit to their relationship afterwards that would never get repaired again.

Rarity and Luna would do some research of their own into the nature of the Zebra's superstitions when it comes to decrying the Stars and everything regarding the night being seen in their culture as "Evil", even long before the events of Nightmare Moon. Luna would send one of her trusted advisors that had connections with Rarity and the Ministry of Image to investigate Zebratown, a slum town located at the base of Canterlot that was home to a sizable Zebra population that was aligned with Equestria to conduct their investigations with, while at the same time, Snips came into contact with a Grimoire of Zebra origins known as The Black Book and delivered it to Rarity to investigate the sort of magic that they used, resulting in Rarity learning how to make Soul Jars and dividing her soul into 39 pieces that would then be imbedded within statuettes of herself and her friends in order to try and remain together in some fashion. It was with an accidental burst of Dragonfire Messaging that sent The Black Book to Princess Celestia; who would learn the same Soul Jar Spell. Twilight planned to use a different method to create a soldier that could inspire and promote order on the battlefield and begun her research into artificially creating Alicorn Supersoldiers, and sending a missive to Trixie to help her out on the project being done in the Marepony Facility that the MAS had set up in Splendid Valley, while at the same time having secreted away another project should the worst come to pass: Gardens of Equestria, a Crusader Maneframe hooked up to a Megaspell powered by the Elements of Harmony that would activate to cleanse Balefire Radiation from Equestria should the nation become destroyed.

As peace was becoming more and more of a distant memory to most Ponies, there were measures being taken by the Equestrian Government to try and end the war quickly, there were also measures being taken by Stable-Tec; seeing that Equestria was inevitably doomed to self-destruction and sought to try preserving any aspect of their civilization and to try and rebuild a better future for their nation through a series of social experiments in order to best weed out the causes of this destruction. Thus Stable-Tec begun the construction of the Stables. At the site for Stable 101, Sweetie Belle would discover the chunk of meteorite that landed in the Everfree Forest close to the Castle of Two Sisters, the same meteorite that Princess Luna smelted metal from in order to create the signature armor that she would don as Nightmare Moon. Sweetie would then carve a cornerstone from the meteorite fragment and leave behind a posthumous message for Zecora, lamenting exactly why the Zebras were motivated entirely to tear apart their world over a matter regarding space rocks that had no magical or evil properties to them, before finishing that it was not just Dumb Rocks. But Dumb Rocks and even Dumber Ponies.

The Last Day would come without much of an early warning as Zebra Balefire Bombs were launched at Equestria, the first one detonating in the middle of Splendid Valley just as Twilight was about to commence Pony tests into her Alicorn program; the explosion rocked the facility and sent Trixie into the mixture just before it was properly finished; resulting in Trixie turning into an abomination that would drag in the other personnel before finally taking in Twilight weeks later and fusing their consciousnesses together with Trixie as the dominant personality.
A Second Balefire Bomb would detonate in the middle of Manehattan at around the same time that Pinkie Pie was at her corporate office; writing a message meant for Twilight apologizing to her friend for letting her drug addiction to PartyTime Mint-Als to get to her head and that she plans on going into rehab and asking for Twilight to be there for emotional support: a message that would never be received due to Marepony having been bombed minutes ago: Pinkies' remains would be found 200 years later clutching to a Statuette of Twilight that Rarity had given her.
A Balefire Bomb was also placed within the middle of Canterlot that was set to go off as a dirty bomb loaded with Pink Cloud after the initial missile barrage launched at Canterlot from the Zebra Empire was redirected by Celestia and Luna to instead slam into White Tail Woods and destroy it: The Magic shield that the Royal Sisters had erected around Canterlot in order to protect it would serve to cook the Ponies inside alive as the necromatic Pink Cloud fused their bodies to whatever they were touching at the time and kill them.
Rarity and Fluttershy were both in Canterlot at that moment and caught in the middle of the Pink Cloud which was seeping into the Ministry of Image Office, Rarity would place her hoof in the window long enough to cast a teleport spell to send Fluttershy to safety, but due to the glass window fusing with Rarities hoof; she would later die from Pink Cloud exposure. Fluttershy was teleported into the middle of the Everfree Forest, and while she would avoid Balefire Radiation exposure, she would instead succumb to the effects of Killing Joke: transforming her into a Willow Tree and leaving her with the knowledge that SHE had unknowingly destroyed Equestria by giving the Zebras the knowledge on making Megaspells in the first place.
A Balefire Bomb was also launched right at Cloudsdayle: vaporizing the long-standing city from Equestria and serving as the final straw for the Pegasi in breaking away from Equestria forever, this war that they were fighting on-behalf of Equestria was not started by them, Equestria sent their children into the grinder of war against the Zebras, and they would no longer want anything more to do with it. Instead the Pegasi would close themselves off from the Surface forever and enact the S.P.P. Towers to blanket the surface of Equestria in perpetual darkness to avoid looking again at the destruction that Non-Pegasi were responsible for causing. Rainbow Dash saw this as a betrayal to everything that Noble Pegasi stood for and refused to leave behind the Surface to their own devices and left the Pegasi, followed later on by Scootaloo; the Grand Pegasus Enclave that would be born from this turmoil would from that point onwards label any Pegasi that follows in both of their hoofsteps as a "Dashite" and a traitor to all Pegasi. Scootaloo would die of radiation poisoning unable to find out where Rainbow Dash went, while Dash went to retrieve her Element of Loyalty and bring it to the Gardens of Equestria where Spike was keeping it safe, only after leaving Spikes' cave she would come across Gilda: a Griffin Mercenary paid off by the Enclave to hunt down and kill Rainbow Dash and bring them her head as proof. It is largely unknown the outcome of Rainbow Dash and Gilda's fight...
Seeing the shield over Canterlot, Applesnack who was on-patrol in Zebratown at the time called up Applejack and told her to go with her family into Stable 2 which was built underneath Sweet Apple Acres, and that Sweetie Belle was the Overmare in-charge of Stable 2, having gotten there in time before the Balefire Radiation got any worse for them. What Applesnack did not know was that Applejack was pregnant with his child when she went through the doors. The shields over Canterlot would fail as water laced with Pink Cloud slammed atop him, rapidly killing Applesnack and binding his body to his Power Armor, he would later come back to life again due to the necromatic powers of Pink Cloud turning him into a Ghoul, a fate that also befell Ditzy Doo who was flying close to Cloudsdayle when it was blasted apart by a Balefire Bomb.

While the necromancy of Pink Cloud could theoretically bring anypony back to life, the same could not be said for Princess Luna who succumbed to the poison and died on the spot after helping her sister in maintaining the shield for so long without rest, hammering home at long last for Celestia that everything that had happened: The events of the Littlehorn Massacre, the War between Zebras and Ponies, the death of Big Macintosh, and the complete destruction of Equestria and the death of her dear sister on The Last Day: it was entirely her own fault... And with her body slowly dying from Pink Cloud exposure, Princess Celestia flew towards the one place where she could at least make a difference and bring light to Equestria by any means: The Single Pony Project Central control tower in Neighvarro, she would bind her soul with the Crusader Maneframe in order to command it to regulate the clouds as a means of continuing the now-unstable day/night cycle brought on by her sisters' death. However as she made the transfer, too late did she realize that Rainbow Dash did not connect the Crusader Maneframe to the SPP Controls, it had to be manually-operated by a living pony inside of the virtual control interface, and the only way anypony could get inside was if they had the genetic code of either one of the Royal Sisters or Rainbow Dash... And so for 200 years, Princess Celestia found herself trapped; trapped in a hell of her own creation looking down through the security cameras mounted to every SPP Tower at the living hell that her nation was descending into as Ponies and Zebras continued to kill one-another over trivial matters...

All of this is shown to our main character Littlepip as she trudges her way through the ruins of Equestria during the events of her story, told through puzzle pieces like firsthand accounts by Ghouls, Memory Orbs, Terminal Entries, Documents that she stumbled across; all without interrupting the natural narrative flow of the story.

Compared to all of THAT, what do we actually know about the fall of Equestria in G5 following the events of G4 that are talked or explained about through information that Sunny Starscout and her friends come across? Perhaps it is inside of Argyles' research notes that she reads? No. Maybe it is passed through oral traditions by Unicorns? Nope. Maybe Zipp and Pipp know about it since their mother leads the Pegasi? Never talked about.

We have ZERO information on how exactly Equestria fell between the events of G4 and G5 that are addressed, discussed, or talked about in the Movie. One could try to argue that G5 is set in its own continuity entirely separate from the events of G4 much like how G4 is not connected with G1-G3.5; but that argument immediately flies out the window with all of the references to characters from G4 constantly taking center stage without allowing for Sunny Starscout and her friends to attempt with engaging with the appeal of the audience by trying to make them stand on their own four hooves in the setting, made all the more harder to accomplish because of how seemingly cardboard generic each of the Five actually are in that they barely go through any meaningful character growth between the first scene of the movie and the last scene.

In Fallout: Equestria, the story is told from the perspective of Littlepip; an Engineer that was born in Stable 2 that leaves her Stable and accidentally stumbles her way into a big adventure, the only difference between a character like Littlepip from Sunny Starscout is how more fleshed out Littlepip is as a character: she does not go on an adventure because of some great vision or destiny she has, nor did she want to be a hero that would go out to save the day. Her initial reason for leaving Stable 2 was to try and bring Velvet Remedy back because of a mistake that Littlepip had caused by having removed Velvet's PipBuck at her request thinking that she needed it serviced; only for Velvet to escape the Stable because the PipBuck would have been used to track her down. Without her PipBuck, Velvet couldn't be brought back into the Stable again, and due to their policies; nopony was allowed to leave, and because Littlepip removed the PipBuck; she was now a social pariah whose situation was made all the more worse by the Overmares' statement over the intercom about Velvet Remedy leaving the Stable and implying that it was Littlepip's fault that it happened. Her leaving the Stable was for her to bring back Velvet Remedy in order to correct a mistake that she had made in order to get back into the good graces of her community: Even when the Overmare had threatened Littlepip that if she leaves the Stable; she will never be allowed back inside even if she brings back Velvet Remedy.

Most ot it is motivated by finding Velvet Remedy and returning to Stable 2, but it is also motivated because Littlepip is in love with Velvet Remedy and simply wants for Velvet to love her back again, something that is impossible because so many ponies; including her own drunkard of a mother keeps telling Littlepip that "Velvet's barn door doesn't swing that way" but she holds out on the faint hope that it does. It is when Littlepip had spent around a week wandering the Wasteland, picking up tips and tricks on how to survive it and of the dangers that the Wasteland contains: from the monsters, natural hazards, robots, Raiders, Slavers, and even other Ponies that she managed to find Velvet at long last; only to have her affections not be returned nor does Velvet want to return to the Stable again because of her spirit being stifled by the cold walls and forced to sing all the time when she wants to practice medicine just like her hero Fluttershy. It wouldn't be until several chapters later that Littlepip finally accepts that Velvet Remedy doesn't see her as a romantic interest; but she does find somepony dear to her in the end in the form of Homage; the newest DJ-P0N3 whose radio persona places Littlepip on a high pedestal as the legendary Stable Dweller who has all the answers to problems facing the Wasteland through the actions and deeds that she commits in the name of all things good and decent which until that moment was in short supply.

In that same story setup, what does Sunny Starscout do that motivates her as a character when she leaves Maretime Bay? She is a social outcast sure, but the other residents seem to treat her more as a public nuisance rather than a social pariah like what happened with Littlepip. Maretime Bay was an open town that she could have left at any time but she did not do it; even when her father had passed away she had no inclinations to go into the outside world or to try and perform any of her own independent research into Pegasi and Unicorns to try backing up her soapbox talks of unity between the Three Tribes. And the only time that she did leave was when Izzy Moonbow came into town because she got a message from Sunny that she sent when she was just a kid saying that Pegasi and Unicorns had friends in Maretime Bay. And what does she do now that there is a Unicorn in front of her? Does she try to talk about herself or ask Izzy about herself as a person?

She jumps into learning about Unicorns and treating Izzy less like an individual that we are supposed to care about as one of the main characters. At least when Calamity went with Littlepip on her journey to find out where Velvet Remedy was; it was based off of a misunderstanding on his part and was genuine about making up for his mistake however he could, and Littlepip actually got to engage in personal conversations with Calamity in order to organically learn more about the Pegasus Sharpshooter not as another Pegasus; but as an individual, and in doing so the two naturally developed camaraderie when their fighting styles managed to blend together in tough moments to the point where their group dynamic went from a Merc and his employer, to genuine friends that look out for one-another, enough that by the stories' end Calamity is able to stand up to the Grand Pegasus Enclave that originally kicked him out for wanting to go down and help the surface.

In case you haven't understood what exactly is going on with Littlepip, let me spell it out for you what Littlepip has that Sunny Starscout does not in a rather famous diagram that I believe most people are well-familiar with that is called "The Hero's Journey".

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Fallout: Equestria is not a retelling of the original Fallout Game, that is absurd and ridiculous. It merely paints the medium of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic with the same dark and foreboding feeling of Fallout, while poking fun at some of the goofier and headscratchy aspects of both settings such as random loot being found inside of containers that are not usually supposed to have those kinds of things in them (Guns and Ammo inside of Medkits), the indestructible nature of Clipboards, of the sort of Gamer Base that goes about hoarding what is seen as useless Junk Items like Calamity does, That Skill Books and Magazines are not a consumable one-use only item and that they can actually be read multiple times like in the real world, how using V.A.T.S. can somehow cause time to just stop for the player to do a number of things in combat, how a Vault Dweller that spent most of their life inside of a Vault would have a very pervasive fear of open spaces or not have the ability to swim in a body of water. How trying to convince the Master in Fallout 1 that the Super Mutants were a sterile species that could not reproduce as an argument to kill him would have absolutely no effect at all on Trixie: who is herself aware of the problem of her Artificial Alicorns being all Females and unable to naturally reproduce and that it is a problem that she was already trying to fix when Littlepip and her friends were brought before her.

Fallout: Equestria more-so borrows from the game of Fallout 3 with splashes here-and-there of the other Fallout Games; including accidentally predicting what was going to happen in the New Vegas DLC: Lonesome Road where the main character is communicated with by a mysterious figure using the in-universe analogue of EyeBots. And beyond that, Bethesda themselves were made aware of the popularity of Fallout: Equestria that they brought most of the references full-circle in the latest game: Fallout 4 with some aspects of the plot in 4 taking inspiration from both Fallout: Equestria, and its' equally-popular side story Project Horizons, with things like the creation process of Synths being very similar to The Blanks and the location to unlock it is keyed into the genetic sequence of a character that was cryogenically frozen and raised by a scientist as their parental figure: only in this case Psychoshy is now a guy with most of her violent personality being dumped instead into the companion character Kait. Hell, there is barely any difference at all between the status of Fillydelphia and Nuka-World: Both are demented carnivals and amusement parks that were taken over by Raiders with a central personality on the radio waves being an enigmatic figure that is named "Red Eye".

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There's another critical difference between the two media, quite apart from one being a story and the other being visual media. Fallout Equestria was envisioned as a single story, hence all the lore drops. The movie is the start of the story, and there is a full TV series to follow, which will flesh out the world and develop the lore. This is sensible writing; you don't dump every little detail in one go, and this builds mystery and intruigue, as we want to find out more in later installments.

Think about it; although G4 did start with an infodump of sorts, it never dropped every little detail of lore about the world at once. This gave us a reason to come back, as there was always new stuff to discover.

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Or another example; Warhammer 40,000. We haven't been told absolutely everything that caused the galaxy to go into decline between the age of Old Earth and the rise of the Imperium at the dawn of the 30st Millenium. This is also deliberate; there's no sense of mystery or chance to develop our own ideas if we're told everything. As the old maxim goes, 'anything the reader imagines is far scarier than what the author could write'.

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I can also give you three counters as to why the pacing is different;
1. A New Generation is a film, not a video game, so the interactive element is not there.
2. Kkat had as much time as they wanted to tell their story, whereas films usually have a set runtime. ANG has a runtime of 91 minutes, so they can't afford to keep constantly stopping and have characters explain their entire life histories. As previously stated, Fallout is an RPG where you build your own character, whereas Sunny is a character in a movie over whom we have no control. Besides, Sunny not asking Izzy about herself may be a character quirk.
3. You may say 'well, why don't they make the film longer'? I think that can be answered with a Hitchcock quote;

The length of a film should be directly proportional to the endurance of the human bladder.

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While Lore is indeed good when paired with the length of the movie, the fact remains that there is very little characterization happening with our leads to not warrant any Lore. There is very little nuance and complexity to our five main leads despite having enough screen time with them to learn what we need to know, sure we know that Sunny Starscout is a "soapbox sadie" that tries to preach about uniting the Three Tribes and talking about how seemingly better Unicorns and Pegasi are than Earth Ponies, but it does not feel like we get to know who exactly Sunny herself is like as an individual. Even when she is interacting with Izzy like I mentioned before, it feels like she is playing up the fact that Izzy is a Unicorn rather than an individual she just met that takes center stage in her mind, that she is more concerned about using Izzy for research and information about Unicorns rather than getting to know who this Unicorn we later find out she had invited to Maretime Bay long ago is like. Even when Sunny goes to other locations like Zephyr Heights and interacts with the Ponies there it isn't to strike up a conversation it is... you guessed it, trying to do research, and in doing so tries to Breeze through any character details without giving them a second thought, like when she was interviewing the guard that had captured her and he casually mentioned that he liked to collect sneakers only for Sunny to just go to another question after hearing that detail.

Take Littlepip in her early chapters of the story, it is told from her perspective but we have a clear and concise picture of the sort of Pony that Littlepip is based on the interactions and observations she makes with the environment and how entirely unfamiliar she is with things like firearms, explosives, Mercenaries and Raiders, but she learns to quickly overcome these disadvantages even when all she really knows how to do with her Magic is basic levitation by using her cunning and wit to turn a situation around to her advantage, even in her first fight between the Mercenaries thar had enslaved her who were fighting against the Raiders in Ponyville, Littlepip had to learn on the fly exactly how shotguns worked by just watching how they are loaded and fired before using her Magic to get herself and Monterey free. She even gets a taste of how treacherous the Wasteland is when after the pair get free from the Mercenaries and Raiders, Monterey turns his acquired gun around on Littlepip demandi g her to hand over her belongings resulting in a tense situation of her own that she winds up defusing by pointing out that her own shotgun has more ammo capacity and her Stable Suit offers more protection and armor than the meager rags Monterey is wearing before telling him to just walk away.
Littlepips goal after the exchange with Monterey remains the same: try to find Velvet, but she needs some sort of lead as well as a way to protect herself and knowledge about the Wasteland she now finds herself in. Enter Watcher who provides Littlepip a starting point and a goal that works in her favor to help her in her quest to find Velvet: kill the Sniper inside of Ponyville. Littlepip is made aware of the danger posed by the Sniper should she try to run away, the Sniper would kill her. And in order to kill the Sniper she needs to deal with the other Raiders standing between her and the Sniper; which she manages to do in a somewhat stealthy manner, along with freeing Ponies that the Raiders were keeping hostage which was the secret test that Watcher wanted her to do on top of just killing the Sniper, a way for him to try understanding the kind of Pony Littlepip actually is. Fast forward to her first encounter with Calamity thinking she is a Raider due to her armor, followed later by her taking on Calamity as a companion and we get to see the sort of team dynamic that they bring to the table as a group with each of them using gear sets of skills in order to get the jobs done with Calamitys Kleptomania and sharpshooter skills supplementing Littlepips own caution, hacking and lockpicking skills. It would be later on that we got to see more of Littlepips personal background into why she is who she is, but she had earned that spot on her own along with her own colorful narrative on what the world is like on the surface as shown by her distain for the topic of Trains.

Little details that are meant to help actually flesh out our main leads is what we need, to show how differently our lead can act around other people in a scene dependent on their personality types within the context of the scene; especially in a series premiere. For an example from outside of MLP, let us take a look at The Mandalorian and how our titular character interacts with other people throughout his first episode:

When he walks into the Cantina to collect the Bounty on the Mythrol; he simply treats him as one might expect from a Bounty Hunter with his frosty demeanor and statement that he can bring the Mythrol in "Warm or Cold" before shoving him into a Carbonite Freezer later on. Then when he arrives at Nevarro to turn in his bounties to his handler Geef Karga, he displays the calm and reasonable demeanor of a professional that knows what he is doing and will only take on bounties that are able to rake him in a lot of money in order to pay for fuel and equipment as a necessary expenditure on top of his distain for Imperial Credits now that the Empire is gone showing that he has a measure of pride to him that will not have anything to do with the Empire. Then arriving at the Safehouse where there are Imperial Remnants inside that have a high-priced Bounty for him to take on, and that a down payment is a bar of Beskar that he accepts shows that The Mandalorian is a man of principle that is willing to take any assignment from clients he had shown distain for if he is substantially motivated. Afterwards he goes into the Mandalorian Covert in order to give the money and the down payment of Beskar to The Armorer and we are treated to the thought that The Mandalorian is a man of strong tradition; even to a culture he wasn't born into based on his statement that "I was a Foundling" when the Armorer talks about Foundlings while making a new Beskar Pauldron for him. Then when he arrives on the planet looking for his quarry and encounters Kuiil and that the way to the Nikto Compound where his bounty is at can only be reached by Bluurgback riding and he has to learn how to ride Bluurgs; we see that even though The Mandalorian is a professional; there are areas that he isn't well-versed in but that he is a quick study and determined to learn as shown when he does learn how to calm down and ride on a Bluurg, it also hints at a deep kindness beneath that armor and a devotion he has towards those that he respects. When arriving at the Nikto Compound and encountering IG-11 who was also sent after the same bounty; we see that The Mandalorian is diplomatic and is able to come up with a plan in the middle of a firefight, more importantly that The Mandalorian may be powerful on his own, but that he is still a man on his own that needs a group if things get too dicey, and that while not all fights can be won through attrition, he is also resourceful and capable when he flanked the other Niktos to take their E-Web Blaster Cannon from them, ending with him showing concern for IG-11 having gone to respect the Droid as a capable Bounty Hunter after going through the same firefight together despite his dislike for Droids. Finally we reach his final interaction of the premiere with The Child: the Bounty that he and IG-11 were both sent after at the start of the episode; where he shoots IG-11 after seeing the Droid threatening to kill The Child instead of bringing it in alive, after which we see the ever-iconic scene that cemented The show in our hearts and telling us of the sort of man that The Mandalorian is... kind.

And all of THAT happening in the first episode alone, helping to setup the sort of man that The Mandalorian is going to be like for the rest of the series.

Sunny however does not feel like an organic person, let alone a character that we would want to have as our main lead since she doesn't so much as Kickstart the story rather than just blindly stumbling along with the story in a clumsy fashion. If anything, Sunny feels more like a supporting background character that wants absolutely nothing to do with an adventure even if it drops straight into her lap unless she can find a way to benefit from it. And across her adventure the audience is supposed to find her endearing because she is supposed to be the main character? She never earned that sentiment from me, because she failed to convey anything regarding quality of her personality that is translatable as either Virtues or Vices for me to latch onto. If anything that sort of attitude is the same kind of character energy that makes Rey Palpatine as hated and reviled of a character in Disney's Fanfic Trilogy: less of a character and more of a statistic to checkmark next to.

If the Main Character is bland and uninteresting, than what would be the point in seeing exactly where she is going to wind up when everything she does isn't rightfully called out on by her companions since she clearly doesn't know how to act like a person or as a friend? Sunny had one chance to reel me in after the first scene, and all she did in it was act like a soapbox sadie by the time of the CanterLogic presentation. She failed miserably to make her argument, and failed to endear me to her.

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This is an insanely long post.

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Well, yes since G4 was the reason why I love My Little Pony

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I've always thought that with the fandom being what it is, it wouldn't make sense to just toss out G4 like last year's iPhone. Currently it doesn't look like IDW has any plans for more G4 content except for "Classics Reimagined", but if that changes, I'd be up for it.

For the most part it will be the case as those are still being made. This website was pretty much launched when G4 was still active. Also, much of the fandom for MLP is from G4, but I feel that mainly has to do with the fact that it came around the time when internet message boards became common. Even though there are fanfics involving G5 characters, it's still not a lot and G4 will continue to dominate. I feel that part of the reason could be due to the fact that G5 is still something new to many people. I will admit that when I did those two fanfics involving G5 characters, I was a little iffy at the time because it was at a time when G5 just started, but I felt that if I didn't then someone else would and that I would lose my chance at being the first in something on this website for losing that opportunity. Also, they were sort of a bonus to a series of fanfics I was already doing at the time that I didn't originally think I was going to do at first until after thinking about it.