I've watched a couple episodes out of curiosity, and I don't get what the big deal is. It's just another cartoon. I haven't seen anything yet to set it apart from the rest. It's certainly no Justice League, that's for sure.
Most things aren't. I still remember the heyday of 2005 and the trio of episodes where Superman beat up someone with Captain in their name. Those were the days.
But as for what the fuss over them ponies, I'd say that MLP:FIM is better than an average show. Still not in my favorite show ever category, but what makes it probably endure is that it has snappy writing and there are honestly low expectations for it. My Little Pony was the low tier of Hasbro's properties. Looking at some of the other programs that were created by Sunbow for Hasbro, it's pretty obvious that the original My Little Pony was low on the development scale than even Jem. Though it was probably higher than Inhumanoids which since it was so low got away with a lot of things. I mean really it's H.P. Lovecraft the toy. But My Little Pony was never suppose to be good.
With Transformers, it would be like twenty years of Transformers Energon. What made this iteration of My Little Pony tolerable to even enjoyable is that Lauren Faust who created this version gave it some whimsy and an almost Looney Toons atmosphere while telling an actual story as oppose to the typical drivel that most My Little Pony shows are. Are most of the fans a bit zealous about it? Yeah, they are, but why they became zealous about it is an unknown quality to me that I wish that I could distill and sell. From the amount of fan material that they have created is a bit abnormal for a such new program as well to the oddest of who most of the alternative audience is, I might be able to get out of the hole that my life has become.
For now, My Litttle Pony really has a demographic that Hasbro, the Hub, nor anyone ever predicted would be a factor in its success. And that is slightly remarkable from a marketing standpoint that Hasbro is actually going to attempt to tap it. The usually response is retooling and trying to drive away such an unknown factor. Toonami on Cartoon Network for awhile attempted to cater to an older audience when their target demographic was 6-13 males, but by trying to make the best action block possible, they attracted a demographic that their commercials weren't targeting. In television, that's not a good thing usually. However, the commercials changed for awhile around 1999- 2000 to reflect both the main and the older audiences of 18-34 year olds. And then the rearrangement of TimeWarner after the merger of AOL and the appointment of Jamie Kellner over the Turner division destroyed that fabled age. Toonami was never the same. Sadly.
Honestly, I'm more amazed by the alternative audience than anything.
Just finished reading a prety damn good fanfic crossover of MLP and Battletech. And it's nearly novel lenght :D [notworthy]
http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/07/story-thessalonica-legacy.html#commentsca
Honestly, that wasn't bad. Though it read like
Far County more than anything at first. I'd probably have the plant change to a more Blakest style personality and not mention the Master what so ever since I'm not convinced the general Blakest knew that the Master existed even in 3068.
apparent;y clinton is a fan too
http://www.npr.org/2011/06/25/137386121/bill-clinton-plays-not-my-job
I wouldn't say he was a fan, but it might be that he was able to feel out that the right answer. Some of those other answers were plain dumb. Krastos the Glue Maker was such a plant answer that it isn't even funny.