Talk:Friendship is Magic animated media/@comment-29017069-20170302060901/@comment-27578467-20170304083615

@Herculine I've already yapped about this in a blog post so I won't go nuts here, but I've always considered this brand of humor to connect with a more timeless and universal facet of human nature than so many others which come and go (such as with what the internet is so saturated), and it's one of the main things I attribute to the show's initial successes. The way I've been thinking about it is that children with a natural willingness to entertain the sort of silly ideas as cartoons often present tend to supplant it with more generic behaviors it when they become desparate to fit in with larger peer groups, and more often than not that need is never satisfied by a firm-enough sense of identity to not be afraid of social repercussions from such "childish" ideas, at least not until the've already become more set in their personalities. At least that seems to make sense for me, seeing as I sort of gave up on trying to be "cool" in my early school days but found a sense of uniqueness in my piano skills, which I felt helped me operate better outside the socials needs of the time.

Against what I think is more probable, I do hold out some hope that the upcoming seasons and movie will be on the same level of enjoyment for me as the first five seasons. I'll be willing to lay down a fair amount on plushies if that's the case.