Talk:My Little Pony The Movie/@comment-7345250-20170220230706

I still have some reservations about some of these new characters. Queen Novo and the Storm King look stupendous. Captain Celaeno is intriguing. Princess Skystar and Tempest Shadow are passable.

But the others...

It's hard to imagine Songbird Serenade being anything but Countess Coloratura 2.0 at best. Unlike the other celebrity guest ponies, this one feels very forced and irrelevant. I won't assert the pony exists just to pad the soundtrack with pop fluff, but that really is the vibe I have been getting. Maybe it could work if she has a history with Tempest, but at the present, this pony relates to nothing but the benefits of a motion picture budget.

As for Grubber... Meghan's words about him are a little terrifying: "Tempest's hilarious bumbling sidekick" he is. Michael Peña has done comic relief before, but the bulk of cinematic comedy is in the writing. I'm expecting something akin to Panic and Pain in Disney's Hercules, but I think this is a very easy role to do poorly. This type of character is certainly more at home in My Little Pony than Jar Jar Binks was in Star Wars—MLP is made to sell toys and make kids laugh, after all. However, the danger remains.

Ah. And then there's Capper. I do not much admire the anthropomorphic cat being thrust into the mix. Certainly the strangest of the bunch. I should hope we at least get an explanation of what this thing is—let it be more than just a walking, talking cat.