He has a point, you know
He has a point, you know
Luis Green
Jackson Perry
Kayden Rivera
Did he have better examples?
Samuel Bennett
Lame barneyfag bait
Cameron Allen
What he has is autism that causes him to conflate different meanings of "mature"
Brandon Price
Not a very good one though
Luke Smith
It's not about "respect" it's about addressing these subject with the nuance only accessible to adults.
"Be kind to others" might be respectful, but it's not eye-opening.
Nathaniel Allen
You're being remarkably civil today. Everything ok?
Carson Sanders
Nah he's just blowing things out of proportions.
Lucas Parker
>"N-OOOO YOU CANT HAVE SERIOUS STORIES WITH A CARTOON PONY! NOOOOO!"
Anyone who says this demonstrates a serious lack of awareness of children's literature and storytelling throughout history. Asserting that putting mature themes in a children's story is wrong or misguided is basically at odds with most storytelling throughout human culture in almost any other time period and is probably the perspective of a sanitized person brought up on junk television and media, or whatever their excuse might be, ignorant of culture.
>"B-but Twilight Sparkle dies, that's so edgy!!"
Uh-huh. And? That’s bad because….cartoon characters are escapist fantasy stories that shouldn’t deal with anything beyond the most basic power struggles? Again, totally unlike fairy tales throughout history over thousands of years where animals and children were killed or murdered or eaten etc etc, right? But cartoon characters must be pure because, why, exactly?
MLP is far more thematically and tonally similar to a traditional children's story than what passes for kids entertainment in mass media today.
Essentially there's no fucking way that these people would ever appreciate or recommend to a child Hans Christian Andersen, Liaozhai zhiyi, Brothers Grimm, Ozaki's "Japanese Fairy Tales", and so on. They admire a sanitized, simplistic world and consider the introduction of any supposedly "mature" themes a tonal intrusion. What they don't recognize is that this position is genuinely a 20th/21st-century sheltered-kid puritanical position that goes against the entire history of children's storytelling. Their criticism of MLP is focused solely on the fact that depression and grief has no place in a cartoonish world, but when cute animals dealt with these things in stories all over the world for centuries, I have to wonder how many other works in how many other cultures would be considered to be shit by their standards.