Talk:School of Friendship/@comment-10390252-20180823123147

At first I wasn't greatly impressed by the Young Six. I thought that it was another attempt (after Starlight Glimmer) to replace the Mane Six as the writers clearly didn't have any good stories to tell about them anymore. However, with time, I've come to like them. That's been entirely due to decent characterisation, great back-stories and nice focus episodes that have done a good job at making them relatable and making me care about them and their destinies.

That doesn't mean that I'm happy that the writers are insisting on doing the usual trick of making the Mane Six look like idiots to make the Young Six look better by comparison. However, I can't gainsay that at least the reasons for the Mane Six looking bad are consistently in-character rather than the arbitrary and grating mischaracterisation we got in The Cart Before the Ponies!