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

[equusmaximus.livejournal.com]

Actually, the new series is far more watchable than the original. While this certainly is not true of many other remakes - the assorted Transformers bastardizations come to mind - this was well done. You can't tell me that the original designs with their massive heads and elephant-feet were any more "horse-like" than the current issue. The movement is far more accurate - particularly the body-language. I've never seen so much attention to the ear-movements in a horse-cartoon as I've seen in this new series.

The writing is far better, the characters are far more likable, and best of all, there's no "small human child who must save all of Ponydom with her latent magical abilities!"

When all I was were the stills, I was thinking "this is going to be horrible" too. But then Dingo finally convinced me to have a look, and I was hooked. Seriously, check it out for yourself, and see. :)

http://www.youtube.com/user/pensivepony#p/u