Saturday, November 26, 2011

My Little Pony: The (Abridged) Mentally Advanced Series

As you might have been able to sleuth from the name of my blog and a few of the posts here, I'm a fan of My Little Pony.
If you read some of the individual points of my fandom, you would know that I pay more attention to fan-created content than the actual broadcasted show, because they usually gear more humor towards my age group.

MLP: The (Abridged) Mentally Advanced Series is definitely some of the best entertainment I've ever seen, MLP-related or otherwise.
The jokes, (while some are a swing and a miss), are spectacular, reminiscent of the TV shows like Archer and Always Sunny in Philadelphia, (these were the closest examples I could think of off the top of my head), but this series of Youtube videos holds its own identity, and makes you laugh in its own way.

A healthy amount of dark humor, an insight toward some of the implied workings of the MLP universe, and some quality voice acting (albeit, sometimes not-so-greatly edited, but they are definitely working on that), and beautifully delivered satire kept me watching all day yesterday, ten episodes, each with an average amount of 10 or so minutes.
It's representation of each main character (and of the background ponies) are excellently expressed. Fans of the show can recognize a flaw or two in their favorite character, and this show captures the image of that character dominated by that flaw. As a fan of some sorts of cynical humor, it's witty and hysterical. It's so absurd and droll but at the same time, each joke is handled with more cleverness and nimbleness than I've seen in so many other places.

Pinkie Pie's eccentricity and hyper activity is exploited to a point of outright insanity (reflected in the original intro), Twilight Sparkle is a witty, selfish, cynic, Rainbow Dash is constantly craving attention and the tomboyish side of her seems to translate into outright homosexuality (but it seems she isn't aware of this as much as everyone else, her intellect is pegged down some), Rarity is a catty *erhm* lady of the evening, Applejack is a pony with a weakness for alcohol (actually, everypony is), Fluttershy is ignored by everyone and you just have to see Apple Blossom and Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle for yourself.

I watched a few episodes again now that I'm on my computer again, and even though the punchlines were a bit expected this time around, it was still worth watching. If you haven't seen this yet, definitely make a point to, I promise that it's one of the best ways to spend a few ten-minute segments on the Internet.

My only complaint of any importance is in regards to the intro (Pinkie Pie being my favorite pony and all), but FimFlamFilosophy has already manufactured a new parodic-to-the-real-show intro that I like, so really this complaint only counts if you watch the first nine episodes.

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