MLP thoughts and questions

My first use of TwitLonger is an important one -- thoughts on My Little Pony.



After watching what I feel like is lots of My Little Pony, I have some thoughts and questions about the show.



1. How is Pony society not more stratefied? There are 4 types of Pony:

- Regular ponies. No powers.

- Pegasus. They can fly.

- Unicorns. They have magic.

- Ponies with both unicorn horns and wings. These are all royalty.

Ok so, already we see stratification. The ponies who have the most power (magic and flying) are literally all royalty. The Pegasus and the Unicorns can do SO MUCH MORE than the regular ponies. Even the "Wonderbolts" which seems to basically be the most famous sports team or something like that, is only made of Pegasus. How is this all not causing huge divides in Pony society?



2. What's the deal with Spike? Unlike the other pets, who are all animals who do not talk, Spike is like a regular level of intelligence. Yet he is controlled by the ponies. They literally DO NOT LET HIM GROW UP. Dragons grow up by hoarding treasure, as far as I can tell. His pony "friends" actively prevent him from doing so, keeping him as a baby dragon. After what was sure to be millions of years of evolution, this is what his species does: it hoards treasure and grows into large adult dragons. How will Spike cope with this when he's in his middle age and literally every single example from his race has grown up and moved on, perhaps reproduced, etc. Meanwhile he's carrying around books for Twilight Sparkle.



3. Pinkie Pie is the best character, by far.



4. What was the exact reason to cast John de Lance as Discord? It seems really obvious, but almost too much so to be true. Being the actor who played Q on Star Trek, he is basically the same character in My Little Pony. When casting for the roll did they just look at that and be like "yeah, that's the voice of an all powerful prankster. Let's do it."? I'm not complaining, he's great, just wondering. Does he have that all powerful prankster voice on lockdown due to being cast as Q so many years ago?



5. Cutie Marks. Lots of these ponies are getting their cutie marks at very young ages. What if their interests change as they grow older? People change a ton until their 30's, right? What about ponies?











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