Jack wrote:Sleet wrote:I do think the attempts to have an overarching plot that goes longer than 22 minutes have kinda fallen flat. They try too hard. I'm totally cool with MLP being a plotless show.
I too am fine with a plotless mlp.
For me, it seems like a lot of shows tend to stick to their formula. they are always either plot based, or episode one-off based, or some other TV formula. What I enjoy about MLP is that it takes all of that and puts it into a one-off show. it can have a one-off story, an overarching plot, big epic two parters, small everyday life lessons, fashion shows, & dragon ball z fights, and never does it feel out of place.
In addition to that, what having these overarching plots does is it establishes continuity. One thing that always got on my nerves (especially coming from the sonic fandom) was a complete disregard for continuity. When a character goes through an impactful experience that changes their life, I don't like to go into the next episode knowing that it will never be mentioned again, we just start back at base 0, and the character really experiences no growth. I want to see actual growth in that character, like it really did effect them just as much as the episode implies it did. MLP has a WONDERFUL level of attention to continuity, and isn't afraid to change up the status quo even if it means effecting every single episode here-after (EX: Alicorn Twilight, The Library getting blown up, Twilight learning to not overreact, etc...). Even little things, like referring to past episodes in casual conversation, or subtly showing that something in a previous episode DID teach a character a lesson that they carry with them into the future, that's just so awesome to me, and MLP does a wonderful job of it.
So to me, I'd hate to see the show just become a one-off series, it would just undermine the relateability these characters have. So I am more then happy to see the show continue with such continuity based overarching plots~