>>6133 >To be fair part of it is me not replying in the post Gen 4 thread. well, the post gen 4 thread was meant more for looking at the show in hindsight without feeling any pressure at catching up with the episodes. By following your blame, I could say that about myself for not reviewing Father Knows Beast.
I mean with the absence of MLP in the discussion, not because of gen 4 but because the current news don´t catch my attention or I feel too lazy/apathetic to even bother. If I were hating and raging about it by screaming to the four winds, I would do that on /mlp/ and would get more fun there.
> I always considered those that say that MLP needs to be pure Medieval tech to be forgetful of all the various tech references in season 1 and too extreme. yeah, that gave an inconsistent impression (for example the machine that Twilight used in Feeling Pinkie Keen) and going from the settings of gen 4 to these ones with more advanced tech is going to feel weird.
>It'll be weird to see the Mane6 in a world with TV, Airplanes and Cars (if that indeed comes with the implication), but I wouldn't say in itself be a dealbreaker. actually, MLP could take a career suicide by diving into a fully technological world and mix a slice of life style with cyberpunk (meaning that despite risking its innocent nature, tech and MLP might not be like combining water and oil). It´s quite risky but the results with the proper approach (and done correctly) in that developed world could work surprisingly well. And you know what? I would applaud the huge risk at experimenting to a whole new level for the franchise even if it failed.
However... >My fear though would be Smartphones and memes we know that this is not cyberpunk at all and that advanced tech won´t contribute to any interesting plot device. They are going to rely on social media and who knows if Hasbro is going to adapt a meta route for criticizing its detractors (like Fame And Misfortune but referencing /mlp/ with a computer). Yeah, I agree wholeheartedly with those fears.
>This sounds like the kind of plot of an average kids show.
