My Little... Pony?

[strredwolf]

Okay, I have not watched the latest spin on this. No, I remember watching MLP with much better, conventional American animated style. It kept things nicely sized and in proportion, well within the toy series that Mattel was selling at the time. Here's the original series theme to give you a refresher.

You got to remember, the time I watched cartoons in 1980's or so, they were selling toys related to most of the cartoons. This included MLP, Transformers, and G.I. Joe.

Now, the cartoons return back to the main formula with the added job of being educational. This seemingly causes the artistic style to suffer:

Transformers goes from highly technical, classic Japanese anime to mutated spinoff interpretation. The guy who did "The Batman"? Yeah, that guy who did "The Crapman" did the art style for this one.

G.I. Joe? Went to the movies, the team got cut down, and the specialization went out the window in order to make it live-action. *sigh* This port got forked.

My Little Pony? Okay, I've only seen screenshots. The artwork is MUCH WORSE than the original. This isn't conventional American like the previous version pre-FCC-edict. This isn't Japanese anime ether. This is worse. It's worse than "Crapman" Transformers. It's worse than Homestar Runner. I'm actually having a hard time thinking of anything that sinks lower than this current series, and that includes kindergarden-age kids' fridge art!

And parents now are subjecting their kids to THIS?!?!?

Comments

[witchiebunny.livejournal.com]

I still think, no offense, that you're raging where there's no reason to rage. They share the same name, but it's like apples and oranges. Tell me, do you refuse to read webcomics with good characterization and stories because the art isn't that great?

I really think focusing on the art/the superficial here isn't really beneficial to anyone.