>>36000640Man, I feel like it's too little too late now, though.
These newer episodes just simply aren't so enjoyable, so it's not like it even matters. I'm really feeling it now, the stark difference between MLP now versus MLP then.
Like holy shit, it almost feels like an epiphany. It's just not the same. Not *only* is the focus shifted away from the mane 6 greatly, but their very characters feel completely different as well. They don't feel like characters that have grown healthy and strong, they feel like characters that have caught a degenerative disease. Rather than a plant growing to its full luscious potential, they feel like a plant that caught a disease and ended up disfigured instead.
Fuck, I'm really not enjoying these episodes now. You know, I actually take back an earlier statement I said. I don't really like season 7 as much as I thought I did. I actually enjoyed season 6 more. I think I'm having a retroactive realization. I'm not liking season 7 *because* this is literally setting the ground work for seasons 8 and 9 in terms of the characterizations of the characters, which I loathe. The lore potential was pretty decent in season 7, but the character rot is no longer simply starting, but well under way at this point and visible.
It deeply unsettles me and makes me feel bad. I don't really like most of the new characters.
