MLP G5 Discussion and Speculation Thread

@northern haste
@Dragonpone
Because this would make logical sense from an artistic standpoint, and you can’t have that when there’s profit to be made?

@Wiimeiser
Not to mention that making it a special means we wouldn’t get seaponies (we would have a short episode)

@Background Pony #C17D
the seaponeis appeared for one minute and twenty seconds and it was just one, the space one was not focused on them, from this perspective perhaps it would even be better even if they were presented in a dedicated episode

@river mines
True.

I agree

Finally we get an episode.

Now we go back to wondering if there’s another one next week.

This one was a lot of fun. It’s a better version of Power Ponies, and a better D&D episode than Dungeons and Discords. And it actually does the premise of “plot happens because character messes up a spell” that was the basis for so many fanfics.

We’re going to get a ton of art of Bunny Suit Misty Wizard Sunny.

@northern haste
@Dragonpone
Nah. This episode would have been a complete slog if you increased the runtime by 340%.

@DerpyFast
An adventure story would slog by being 20 minutes?
It feels like it ends just as it starts

@DerpyFast
we’re talking about 20 minutes, that’s the time of a normal episode of MYM, and TYT obviously costs a lot less.

@northern haste
The story as it currently is would be a slog if you stretched it out to 20 minutes, because the episode does not have 20 minutes worth of materiel. A 20-minute episode isn’t just “a longer story”; the plot is going to be more complex, the stakes are going to be higher, it’s going to have a different tone, and it’s going to have more to say. If you tried to convert this into a proper 20-minute story, it would be completely different.

So many episodes of G4 were just 5, 7 or 11-minute stories inflated to fill 22 minutes. Go watch Simple Ways, and then watch Suited for Success. The difference is night and day.

So the gang encountered a creature who acted violently at them, attacked them, and the one with heart and compassion sees through the facade and finds out that it’s misunderstood and aren’t as bad they seem and help them be more kind? That’s sweet.

HEY WAIT A SECOND!!

I’m onto you TYT…

Episode was pretty good, I’m not too big on fantasy stories, but I liked this idea a lot. I agree with the opinion here that it feels way too short and should’ve been longer, like its own separate story arc.

@Mr.Myoozik
It is a very tired trope.

@Mr.Myoozik
While I’m sure it has more to do with giving a consistent production end-goal than anything else, I wish they would embrace the medium they’re posting these on and just make the episode however long it needs to be to fit the plot. Start with 5 minutes as a minimum, expand from there as needed.

@DerpyFast
Actually seeing them try to solve the puzles would have been more interesting.
Definitely Would have been better use over twenty two minutes then blockywockys. Pretty
much ten minutes talking an art block, Five minutes of 3 random locations For no more than two minutes each And then 5 minutes of decorating a theme mark.

Episode today was decent, adventure episodes are always cool. Besides the aforementioned FiM episodes, it also reminded me of Lavarynth but with an RPG setting. I just wish there had been more humor.

Episodes Since Comet’s Last Appearance: 11

Wonder if Zantorp will appear again before Comet does. Also love how he had a mane and horn like Sombra’s.

From my experience as a Sprout fan, the most likely answer is not the most pleasant

Even in Russia, lol…

I actually own a G5-themed mug. If they had something like this in the West, I’d drink this out of that mug.

@CloudMistDragon
Missed opportunity not advertising using the pony who both resembles a marshmallow, and canonically enjoys chocolate.

I also want to say that I liked the Book Fairy, I thought she was funny

@Dragonpone
While I can kinda get why they make it short, make it more palatable for the target audience who watches it on YouTube Kids, the fact that they made the special the same length as a standard episode and have it be successful shows that they are capable of making longer episodes if they want.

@Mr.Myoozik
I might be dating myself, but isn’t ~10 minutes seen as the best length for Youtube videos anyway (if for no other reason than the ability to include more ads)? I thought that was one of the major reasons Let’s Players got so big, they were playing to the algorithm.

Actually it just now occurs to me that I know very little about the big influencer-type Youtubers to get popular in the last ~10 years. Maybe 5 minutes is the new normal.

@Dragonpone
As far as I know, the algorithm rewards videos based off of how long someone has watched the video, which explains why a lot of video essays and analysis videos tend to clock in at around half an hour or longer and it gives advertisers more space to put in their ads. For TYT’s case, I don’t know how much it makes Hasbro money using this system, but since animation is a lengthy and expensive process, that may be one reason why the episodes tend to be short. Plus, I want to guess and say that Hasbro makes most of their profits from merch sales than anything.

Has anyone else here wondered if Misty’s bunny outfit is a reference to the getup of the gadabout (originally called goof-off) from Dragon Quest?

Seriously, if she was intended to be a toned down Playboy bunny, that would be hilarious. XD

Book Fairy is cute

@WestRail642fan
I liked her, I thought she was funny

@Mr.Myoozik
I love how she addresses them then comments on how they’re still alive. Wonder if part of her job is telling ponies like them something like “death should not have taken thee” when they fail.