>>6268
So that was a ramble now wasn't it? That was just how I felt over each episode over a real attempt at a bonafide review. A lot of the issues to me feel more like general questions of the series over problems with an episode. Prepare for my ramble

This show's format is slightly weird. If you didn't watch it. Each segment has a part 1 and part 2 with a title card. My guess is so that this show can be later broken up into segments for youtube uploading. I wouldn't call it a deal breaker but it does feel weird to have this second title card pop up in the middle of the show.

The tone feels off to FiM but not completely as bad as it could be. More like a bastard child over something completely alien world in a FiM coating. The mane 6 feel close to there FiM selves with the performance sometimes being a bit off, at least to me. Rarity and Pinkie sound the most normal. Fluttershy the most off. My bet is that characters that relied on any nuance or subtly will probably be the most off putting to be here (Celestia!). Coolest form of this would be if they took traits of characters or popular fan memmes and made them for a more comedic take. Say, gamer Luna or a openly psychopathic Dolores. Worst form and one that I think is entirely possible would be to just reduce such side characters to their archetypes. It would not be their take on Princess Celestia. It would just be the roll of generic power figure, who just so happens to be named, Princess Celestia.

The real question is: is there anything to be had for a FiM fan, either the adult fandom or one who has grown up with FiM? I mean, there was a little bit of an acknowledgement: AJ saying she missed Rarity's freakouts and looking at the camera. Was Rarity's brief film noir gag a reference to Rarity Investigates? Now honestly I know the comics are for the older fans and this is a stopgap measure to sell toys and have a theme before G5, but there is still some interesting stuff they could do that wouldn't violate that mission. If they market it to Adult FiM fans (heck, even target demo FiM fans to an extent) and they don't do anything that takes advantage of the new show other than a superficial or simplistic icing than I would hold it as a mark against it in quality.