LocationHiding in a cake, left in green city called New A... something.
Posted 17 February 2014 - 09:58 AM
xengk, on 17 February 2014 - 02:13 AM, said:
One thing I remember from G1 are the villain than the pony themselves.
They seem so generic and lack of personality, outside of the pilot episode, compare to the much colourful villains.
I really like Sting and Katrina.
Each character generally have 1 gimmick and that's it.
Like Surprise's gimmick is to jump out and shout "surprise!" or something of equivalent, once that card is played she acts like any other pony in that episode.
Thanks for the insight, xengsk.
Kind of ironic to have good villains and not-so good cast, when writing a good villain is much harder than writing a good main character... at least in my opinion, that is.
I sort of loved it when The Anime news network runs a story on the Japanese version of the show. Its sort of fun watching the weeaboo level fans rage in the forums
preparing to write seems to be ten times more work than writing. Then there's the proof reading, plot checking, charachter veting, word count, editing...
I almost feel like telling my friends, "You can have my story when you pry it from my cold, dead, hands."
Kind of ironic to have good villains and not-so good cast, when writing a good villain is much harder than writing a good main character... at least in my opinion, that is.
I think the problem was they have too many pony character, they feature a new set of pony or introduce new pony with each new plotline, unlike how they did with the Mane6 in G4 and Mane7 in G3.
So the characters overlaps.
Villain on the other hand are one shot and then to standout, some are well done like Sting while other are forgettable like that giant octopus and his lobster henchman.
The good villain are the one that the viewer can related to.
In Sting's case, he is introduce as a bully and enforcer of the bee colony. After capturing a pony and listening to their plight about how the bee colony is destroying their home.
He turns around and try to work out a solution for both community, all the while without betraying his duty. (he didn't let the capture pony go even after hearing them out, because that is his duty as prison guard) He even find the courage to stand up to HIS bully, he is a good guy caught with a bad crowd and situation.
Kinda like the Bab Seed episode.
LocationHiding in a cake, left in green city called New A... something.
Posted 19 February 2014 - 04:01 AM
xengk, on 18 February 2014 - 08:36 PM, said:
I think the problem was they have too many pony character, they feature a new set of pony or introduce new pony with each new plotline, unlike how they did with the Mane6 in G4 and Mane7 in G3.
So the characters overlaps.
Well, that seems like a rather reasonable explanation, thanks.
I should really grab at least a few episodes off of Yayponies someday.