Gir said:
Epic Nitwit said:
MY EYES
Okay, honestly, G1 ponies aren't that bad. In fact, they're only bad in the same way
He-Man,
Super Mario Bros. Super Show! or any other TV show from the 80's seem bad in retrospect, it's mostly just weird with sub-par animation and pretty 1-dimensional characters. Honestly, while Friendship is Magic is still by far the best version, out of all that came before it, I'd say G1 is probably the most interesting, in that every other episode has some kind of monster threatening to destroy everything. And regardless of how the main case of ponies or humans are, watching criminal flowers being chased by police crab, magma men, evil goats, and shadow-eating cloud want to destroy everything isn't boring.
For the most part.
Really, the only reason it's better than the other shows save FiM is BECAUSE of that constant state of threat they're in. My Little Pony Tales is kind of a step backwards in that it focuses more on practical, slice-of-life stories, and the characters are WAY too uninteresting to really work. G3 ponies is pretty much what everyone thinks of when they think of the worst of MLP, and believe me, it's as bad as everyone thinks it is.