Today is our 9th Summer Sun Celebration we've shared together as a fandom, and the last we'll have while the show is still active. Why is this important?
Today is our 9th Summer Sun Celebration we've shared together as a fandom, and the last we'll have while the show is still active. Why is this important?
An Evil League of Evil forms as baddies come together to stop The Good Guys. It's an old trope dating back to the earliest days of serial fiction, but there's something extra special about the way MLP is using it this season.
Twilight's Seven was a perfect episode. It managed to pack a lot of exciting ideas into a short period of time, and yet still tell a tight story, wrap it all up with a satisfying, unpredictable ending, (with some serious emotional punch), and to top it all off, you get to see Luna pet a goose, all sinister-like.
The latest premiere has a whole lot of juicy stuff going on, ripe for the talkin' about! But I feel the need to hone in and focus on Discord for a minute. He's come a long way.
As we all know, Discord started out as a bad guy - the ultimate foil to the magic of friendship. ("Discord" after all, is the opposite of "harmony").
I believe in magic. Actual literal magic.
I believe that magic is to be found anywhere that there is laughter, because really, think about it! What is laughter anyway?
After my first few years of involvement with My Little Pony fan community I started burning out pretty hard. You wouldn't necessarily know it to read my essays or to follow the Facebook pages I administrated. I always tried to keep it positive. However, over time, I came to strongly dislike a lot of the choices that the show was making.