Talk:Invisible/@comment-15889853-20180417224036/@comment-7345250-20180621142504

Make no mistake, just about everything that's been injected into the series specifically to sell a new toy (Rainbow Power, etc.) has been ludicrous from the get-go, appearing suddenly with little explanation or prelude.

Equestria Girls is the worst of these things.

There are criticisms that can be levied against FiM itself, but FiM at the very least consists of a universe with unique rules. Talking multicolor ponies? Unicorn magic? They work because they are consistent. They make sense in the setting where they originate.

So Equestria is one thing. EG is another.

EG suddenly adjoins a world populated by humans to that universe. That by itself is not the worst thing in the world. However, it is a parallel world where everyone in Equestria has a human counterpart in the vicinity of one high school. This is where the problems begin. All of a sudden, everyone from the CMC to married ponies like Jet Set and Upper Crust are condensed into one age group. Why? No real reason. It's just lazy writing centered around marketing human dolls of those characters. It is forced.

Then there's the matter of magic. A good place to start is the Element of Magic. In Equestria, it is the supreme force for goodness. It activates the other Elements of Harmony and vanquishes evil, and it fails if the wearer does not properly embody leadership and camaraderie. It has its own special rules.

EG tosses those rules out the window. All of a sudden, it is a mystical MacGuffin with the power to create demons. Why? Because magic works differently in the human world for some reason we never hear. And by differently, I mean in whatever way suits the plot.

Element demons? Ponying up? Magic geodes? Daydream Shimmer? All of these defy what little lore was firmly outlined in FiM. And what's worse is that EG material is wildly inconsistent among itself. Ponies, donkeys, and Diamond Dogs all have human counterparts... and yet dragons, for some completely arbitrary reason, are dogs. Why is that? There is no reason why! Except that Hasbro wanted to package a pet dog with its human Twilight Sparkle toys.

EG is a world without rules. Everything happens at random or as it suits the company's whimsy. You could argue that Sci-Twi is simply channeling the energies of her counterpart in Equestria; but A) that is never actually stated, B) it leaves a mystery of where Sunset's pony-up powers originate, and C) it makes the geodes specially ridiculous because the Elements of Harmony are six in number, not seven.

Do you understand? It is all nonsensical, i.e. stupid.