![]() Pandering seems to be a fairly new thing that people claim. Are they usually directed at adults? Of course, but again, the creators usually put them in because THEY wanted to, and for no other reason. Literally decades (Possibly centuries, I really don't have the time, knowledge or inclination to sift through centuries of books and a century of movies). Shout-outs and references have been in popular media for decades. The amount of effort it takes to put in, whether it is the animators, the storyboard artists, the writers or anyone else on the MLP creative team, to put out just a single episode is enormous.īut let's leave that aside for a moment. To even suggest that is being lazy is so amazingly obtuse it physically hurts me. Considering that this isn't the first MGS reference, we can infer there is someone either on the storyboard team or the writing team (perhaps even the animation team) that simply likes MGS, and they are inserting what they enjoy into their job. ![]() Most of them don't even consider what will or won't be well received by fans, they think, first and foremost what they like and they enjoy (and it just so happens they are paid because they are very good at comedy and writing so what they think is good happens to be well received most of the time) or what they think is funny or interesting. I've gone to cons, listened and read interviews from writers and storyboard artists. it is so amazingly egocentric that you assume that they are inserting those references for you or any other fan. So inserting shout-outs is a lazy way to connect with adult fans? First off. So let's start out with the whole laziness bit. ![]() *rubs brow* I really tried hard to ignore this debate. I ask that potential spoilers talked about or shown before the episode airs stay within the spoiler tags please, after the episode you no longer have to use the spoiler tags, but warning, if you haven't seen the episode yet after it airs, this thread no doubt will have all sorts of spoilers in reviews, images, etc. As the thread is now open it may indeed contain spoilers. This thread is dedicated to discussing the episode before, during, and afterwards. Saturday is upon us again and with it another new episode of the show we love, so sit back and watch adorable ponies do adorable things! This episode marks the return of the ponies' most annoyingly sucessful troll, er, Fluttershy's good friend, Discord ! This also means, yes, we have our first Fluttershy focused episode, so yay! Who is Fluttershy's new friend and how fast will the fandom ship them? What will happen at this year's gala and will it involve the royal guard and jail time? Will another classic character make an appearance? Tune in to find out! The episode airs Saturday 11:30 AM EST on May 16th. Why is this something to take issue with now? indeed that's what I'm thinking too I mean sure pop culture references are not for everyone but honestly the pop culture references the show makes is miniscule And again, as said before, it really isn't like the show making references to things only adults would get is anything new. Why is this something to take issue with now?Īs for originality, why should that matter if it's amusing? it's not exactly stealing if the things are repurposed. Just because you don't find them funny personally doesn't mean that others won't or that they are not jokes.Īs for originality, why should that matter if it's amusing? it's not exactly stealing if the things are repurposed. I would say you're wrong though, because the reference are by definition most certainly jokes-that is something done with humorous intent-and they are as relvent to the story as about any other joke included (which is to say not very relevent at all). It was a direct response to the words you said and thus entirely relevant.Īnd there we go. I explained why it was I thought that-that that is the reason the references exist. ![]() You said in your the post that you were unsure of how I had come to think you were talking about the references in the episode as an approach to humor. It's as simple as just saying "This is something someone else made." It's not a joke, or a connection, or anything really. They simply exist, without relevance to the story being told nor the world we are seeing. They aren't "humor" in any honest sense of the word, nor are they original material from the writers. And I would think it's self evident as to why references are lazy. ![]()
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