Just wondering if I'm the only one that thinks the My Little Pony show is geared for children a little older than the normal Treehouse demographic...?

bblenkin:

Just wondering if I'm the only one that thinks the My Little Pony show is geared for children a little older than the normal Treehouse demographic...?

Not that I really think it's a bad show, just my daughter and her friends (all almost 2) cry when it comes on or go do something else... They seem to really dislike it as much as shows I like!

I was thinking the same thing the day I first saw it. my youngest daughter sp at the age of 1 {close to 2!!!} Hates this show,it scares her.I think i shoud wait until shes older tho to make sure that she dosent like it!

This show's producer, Lauren Faust, felt that the newer generation of viewers deserved more of an actual cartoon with morals and lessons to be learned from it and less of a 22-minute toy commercial like the generations of cartoons before it. In fact, this show—as mentioned by Faust herself—is geared more towards children ages 6-13 and their parents because of the nature of the show itself.


As to why it scares your children so much... well, several times throughout the show, the 'mane cast' has had to subdue beasts normally portrayed as gruesome and frightening like the mythical manticore (as seen in Episode 2, 'Elements of Harmony'), the Ursa Minor (Ep 6, 'Boast Busters'), dragons (Eps 7, 'Dragonshy' and 24, 'Owl's Well that Ends Well') and the hydra (Ep 15, 'Feeling Pinkie Keen'). Not to mention it showcases things like death that could easily traumatize someone so young; an example being when Rarity fell from the Cloud-iseum in 'Sonic Rainboom', falling to her doom... though, thankfully, she and three of the Wonderbolts were saved by Rainbow Dash not half a minute later.

This may be advertised as a 'children's cartoon', but your kids are still far too young to fully understand many things this show presents as well as the fact that it is just a cartoon, so it will either appear to them as either boring or scary. My advice to you—and to other parents that find their children disturbed by this show in some way or another—is to avoid the prime-time 6 PM EST time slot in which this show airs and give your children a few years, until they're either in or bordering on the target demographic. By that time, we can hope that they'll accept this show as the light-hearted cartoon it was meant to be and possibly enjoy it more. Or, if you think your kids might still genuinely enjoy the show, you can sit down and watch it with them; again, this show was also meant to catch the eyes of an adult audience, so your kids might enjoy it more if they see their parents showing a genuine interest in it (and if you're concerned that you would feel out of place watching and enjoying a show like this, don't be... in fact, if you look closely and carefully, you'll find a great many communities of adult men and women online that fawn over this cartoon).

In summary, just do one of two things: give your children time to learn to enjoy it, or give them incentive to give My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic a second chance. A good episode to introduce them to is Episode 11, 'Winter Wrap-Up' (you can view this and many more of the episodes in high quality on YouTube, if you have access to a computer at home.); in addition to being among the tamest of all the episodes and demonstrating the best of the main characters' personalities, it has an amazing musical number that will have anyone singing along to it.

The show has caught more adult viewers than kids, anybody that is over 16 that likes the show is called a Brony wich is a gender neutral term but are mostly males. This fandom is the best thing I ever got into, except for all the people that hate us becauze of there need to "retain there masculinity" its a great show made by the same person that made Power Puff Girls, Fosters Home for imaginairy friends and Kids Next Door. The community has tons of art and fanfiction that has made MLP the biggest thing to take over the internet in a while.

Although I must agree that the show requires a basic level of maturity and isn't for everybody. I watched the entire first season and I find that this show is much higher quality over most cartoons today whom basically say stupid=funny.

I think maybe they get scared off by characters like Nightmare Moon? It's odd how the series opens up so dark like that. I just watched my first ep of MLPFIM today and it was ep 2 but while watching it I figured it would be the season finale. It's like they open on a climax and chill out the rest of the season, confusing momentum.

Surprised by all the negative reviews here....this is one of the few shows that my son watches that I actually enjoy as well. He is four years old and LOVES this show. I find some of the humour pretty subversive and i'm sure it goes over most kids heads, but they still enjoy the show!

If kids are frightened by the new Little Ponies then something is wrong somewhere. I showed it to my youngest niece first episode right to The BEST NIGHT EVER and not once did she start crying at Nightmare Moon...big deal, she has older brothers that sit right in front of the tv screen and watch cartoons from when I was a kid ie G.I.Joe,Batman and Superman are far worse then MLP:FIM, I'm almost 34 and I LOVE this show, dear god I have the entire first season of the Classic MLP and while watching it my own mother said to me 'What's this show trying to tell girls? That if you bawl like a baby and giggle like no tomorrow the big scary bad man will turn tail and leave you alone?' I had no reply for that as I grew up watching it.  MLP:FIM has already taught my niece that if you work through the problem you'll come to a better conclusion and if something is scary then laugh at it like Pinkie Pie did. We can't expect girls today to bat their eye lashes at some pony and they'll just disappear! We need to teach girls and boys today that it's ok to play with toys that are marketed as 'girls' toys and 'boys' toys, my nephew has a massive collection of MLP:FIM toys and my niece has a large collection of Pokemon Toys that she cherishes to the ends of the earth. Do we see where I'm going? Pokemon is targeted at BOYS and MLP:FIM is targeted commercial wise at GIRLS, here we are in the twenty first century and we're still saying 'NO! Boys should NOT be watching a show with colorful talking female ponies! It's going to turn 'em into sissies!!' and 'No my daughter will NOT watch Pokemon as the main character is  10 years old been through four far away places without his parent and that is not the message I want my daughter to get! She should never think it's ok to be without her parents!' Get over yourselves! There are far scarier shows on tv that little kids are watching without mom and dad knowing about it.

My only gripe about this show is: I'm soo sick of seeing the first season's episodes, can we PLEASE get on with season two before the rest of the world sees it and tells me what goes on or I find the eps on youtube? Thus far I've seen episodes 1-4 of season 2 on youtube and they're awesome.

I'm 21 myself. I get all the episodes in 1080p off http://ponyarchive.org. My little cousin is a girl, I think she is 8 and used to tease me about watching the show but I sat her down with me to see one of the new episodes that I wanted to watch as well and we just had a blast, we kept watching episode after episode till she had to leave. All my friends are Bronies and I have one cousin (he is 15) that enjoys it as well. Its just such a happy feel good thing to be a part of ^_^

I have but one gripe about some of the episodes that have already aired. It gets very annoying when Trixie says to RainbowDash 'When I get done with you, the only thing they'll be calling you is LOOSER' the entire sentence is muted. The same thing with the episode of Pinkie Pie's Birthday the word LOOSER is muted out!  Great so now we're telling kids that saying the word Looser is bad? WAKE UP AND SMELL THE HAY! Kids already use the word Looser every day! If one kid doesn't match what they think they should be, then that kid is automatically called *le gaspe* A LOOSER! Kids do it every day! I hear it everyday on the playground 'hey looser! why don't you go wash your hair and have a bath so you don't smell so bad you freaking looser from Looserville?'

This is just Treehouse's doing, the Hub doesn't censor the show, in fact the latest episode The Last Roundup  http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/01/last-roundup-streamsdiscussiondownloads.html They finally confirmed the name and gave voice to Derpy  http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/Derpy  (derpy is internet slang for acting dumb)  The show and channel has given allot of fan service and I honestly don't think it can be even called a kids show anymore.

I think we need more of the season 2 epiosdes, because other people are wanting the new episodes. My little pony: Friendship is magic is produced in Canada, right? how come the US gets the new episodes?

Stuff being make in one country and be only available in another is not out of the ordinary. Oh well I just watch the internet streams every Saturday to see the latest episode.

I know, but still, It doesn't really bother me since I see the episodes on youtube, but I kinda want the new episodes in Canada.