Here's a story I just had to share: Today, I was sharing TV Guide's "Top 60 Greatest Cartoons of All Time", and I got into the subject of He-Man. See, I casually mentioned how He-Man was kind of a stupid show in retrospect, and one guy took issue with that. I tried to explain that the show could still be entertaining, but that you have to acknowledge it's rather silly or absurd moments, but he was having none of that, and took every single comment I said as an insult... when not as an insult, really, the guy likes to "bust my chops" as it were, and whenever we "disagree" on something, it's typically just him thinking something's awesome and accepting no substitutes and me just being "eh, oh well" about it...
Then the subject of
Friendship is Magic got brought up. And I have to admit, I did the entire fandom a disservice (if the fans didn't already do themselves an internal disservice, if you know what I mean... Don't play dumb, you know,
EXACTLY what I'm talking about!). Basically, my friend was still upset about me apparently bashing He-Man, but I took issue with him because he thought I was exclusively talking about the old
My Little Pony, comparing it to
Rainbow Brite and whatnot. I tried to explain it to him, but he wouldn't let me get what I wanted to say out, and let me tell you guy, I may hate arguing and debating online, but I am even WORSE in real life! I was talking over him, losing my patience, and at one point, I even SHOUTED at him, and that was the point where he realized he had gone to far and backed off. I had also realized I had gone too far, and apologized repeatedly for losing my cool. He said he'd check out the new
My Little Pony (I made sure to let him know I was SPECIFICALLY referring to
Friendship is Magic), so long as I checked out the new He-Man (I didn't even know there was a new He-Man...).
Moments later, some of my other friends, who managed to overhear what went down, though I was upset with him and that he was being mean to me, though before I could explain what happened, he actually invited me away from them, to tell me that he actually saw the song sequence of "A True, True Friend", and actually LIKED it (to quote him, it "didn't bother [him] at all"); he loved the message of the song, and thought the song was really good, too. He especially liked Rarity's part.
Now I was actually a little touched by this, because not only did he immediately take the time to look up the show, but he apparently was convinced that I wasn't kidding that the show was good through my favorite song from the show! I apologized again for getting so antsy, but he also apologized because he only meant to poke at me, whereas he felt like what he did was punch me. We made up with a "man hug", and we're basically still cool now.
It's a story like the kind you'd hear a lot on the Internet, and I thought I'd share it with you guys.
