My Little Pony - Friendship is Magic

I have been so incredibly smiley the past few days. Why, you might ask?


Well, because of the ponies from Equestria of course!


Yes, my friends, I have recently discovered the revamped versions of MLP, and it is amazing. I have never smiled so much at a cartoon show, I swear! (Technically, anime doesn't count as cartoon else it'd be a fierce rival against Lucky Star). In the past three days I've contented myself with watching episodes after I get home from work, and last night I finished the first series. Today, I started the second. I'm so pleased to have found it; it really is a gem of a cartoon, and teaches viewers valuable lessons on friendship with each episode.


It usually wraps up each episode with Twilight Sparkle writing a letter to Princess Celestia about what she has discovered about friendship - kind of like the moral of the episode. Since this show is primarily aimed at young kids, I think a moral about friendship is a fantastic thing to show them. Kids can nowadays be so caught up in stuff like mobiles and computer games that they may forget what really matters. This show teaches them right from wrong when it comes to friendship, and I really think that is fantastic.


But wait, my friends! MLP: FiM is not just for young kids! Ohh yes. It is loved by adults as well. This fun, colourful, insightful program is such a joy after the depressing/repetetive things on television for adults. You have the soaps - Home and Away, Holby, Casualty, Corrie, Eastenders etc. You have the sports - football, rugby, golf, tennis etc. You have the documentaries - history, geography, animal life etc. The worst perpetrator is... THE NEWS! Hardly anything happy is ever broadcast on the news. I have personally stopped watching it. I get my information from newspapers (which always have at least two happy stories in it) and gossip. Whilst I don't condone the latter, it's much better than watching the news.
All of these TV programs may have some good points, but seriously? Where is the fun? Where is the colour, the laughter, the rainbows? WHERE ARE THE GOD-DAMN PONIES?!


So, whether by happy mistake or for their child/sibling's sake, these teens+ have stumbled across My Little Pony. Eh hee hee hee! And oh, how they are hooked! Male fans of the show call themselves Bronies (inventive, eh?) and I do believe that the females call themselves (even if they don't, I will) Pegasis. If I remember rightly, the best comment I ever read from a FiM episode was by a Brony who wrote - I am an adult male and I watch this instead of porn. That's right I said 'instead of', not 'as well as'.
MLP is helping to cure men of the lure of pornography, people! Bravo, I say!


MLP is even a popular tattoo design. This is a great example of a Brony, though the pony is not from Friendship is Magic. This Brony is just awesome too! Much err... respect is not the right word, but I was slightly impressed at first. And lastly, this pony is Rainbow Dash from FiM :D


Of course, my favourite is Fluttershy! *Squee* She is so adorable. So so adorable. There is no one more adorable than her on TV. Even Pocoyo is having a hard time competing against her adorableness. But I wouldn't want to get on her bad side! I have the Sparta Remix on 'You're going to LOVE ME!' on my phone, and Flipped Fluttershy is scary Fluttershy. BEWARE THE FLUTTERAGE!


Now that I've got all of that out of my system, I hope that people may be inspired to watch this brilliant thing. I was a mega fan of MLP when I was growing up; I watched my VHS of Rescue at Midnight Castle so much that we had to throw it away in the end because the quality got so bad. But this is a fantastic revival of My Little Pony, and has an uber uber UBER thumbs up from me!