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>So, new Transformers/MLP crossover in may? Need to read the first then, LOL! Still totally out of the loop in the comics world.
yeah, you are missing so much in comparison of what I do,it really shows how much I talk about those releases!

>My thoughts on G5 are low but not 100% negative. 3d is okay for the movie but 3d for the show does concern me as if I go by what I hear second hand of 3d shows general reputation: not bad but often formulaic and a little bland at times. I think, based what I see, the framing of a activist going to fix Equestria is going to be mostly a PR framing over how the show is though I would still expect some social justice to show up considering the times.

I still don´t have it all that clear but I cannot refute what you have said over here. You´ve perfectly summarized it pretty nicely.

>Though, bigger concerns are the nature of it being a sequel itself. Are the mane6 figures of legend and a whole lot of time past or did Twilight fail or some calamity happen? Was the last problem really a tragedy like I feared? They market it as it being in the same canon, the same world so I would be surprised if it takes place too far off... at least Twilight is going to be there, right?

whatever plot device they come up with that justifies why they are in conflict. If all of them were friends, perhaps they would find it too cheesy and difficult to establish a conflict among the characters. So I suppose that they will add something tragic in order to solve it throughout this generation. So many sequels have relied on this trope in order to justify the existence of subsequent productions. But yeah, it seems that they have completely ditched the climax achieved in The Last Problem. It will be interesting how they exploit the context and the reasons why this setting occurred.

>Only thing I say that is positive atm if it does not go for full mediocrity or lackluster Rainbow Falls style kid friendliness I will be actively interested in it way more than I ever thought I would be due to its connection to G4. Won't be a fav but may have stuff that I could at least use for fan content Twi being a sad exile of her fallen kingdom?

Gen 5 is going to suffer the same treatment that I have seen for many artists (at least, in music). Whenever you drop the magnum opus, the next release is going to be unavoidably compared with that peak of creativity by the fans (boosted by their hunger of more of that type of content). I am not claiming that gen 4 is the greatest cartoon of the decade or anything like that. I am just saying that, for the known delivery of this franchise on its own, FiM reached a creative explosion that fans will hold as the golden standard and thus, the next releases would be conditioned by those standards delivered at the time.

I highly suggest that gen 5 stays as their own thing because it´s truly difficult to recapture the same momentum twice.Not even Hasbro can pretend that FiM doesn´t exist and treat the franchise in the same way before 2010 (which is nice because this will encourage the company to upper the quality if they want to get money)... but we´ll never get exactly the show of the 2010s either. Will those changes be good without sacrificing the nature of MLP or becoming a parody of itself? We´ll have to find out.