I love My Little Pony and it's been awhile since I've actually watched the show. So I decided to go through and watch the entirety of Gen 4 and commentate on everything. I will be rating everything, talking about anything I find interesting, and making plenty of jokes. If you are into MLP or have any interest in it, I recommend that you first watch anything listed here before reading my commentaries since there will be spoilers and plenty of jokes that will probably ruin the mood of certain scenes.
- Season 1
- Episodes 1-2
- Episodes 3-7
- Episodes 8-13
- Episodes 14-20
- Episodes 21-26
- Audio Commentaries
- Season 1 Ratings
- Season 2
Rating
I will be rating everything I watch in three categories: Entertainment Value (EV), Vibe (VB), and Development (DV). Entertainment Value is how entertaining I found the media. Vibe is how much I vibe with the it as the kids would say. Vibe has multiple factors from characters, message, or just personal experience towards the subject matter; this one will be especially subjective. Development is how much we learn about the world. This can include various things from seeing a new location, meeting new characters, learning lore, and continuity progression or callbacks.
The ratings will be from 1-6 with averages using seximals instead of decimals. The reason being is that I find the 1-10 system to be way too big and almost everyone that uses this rating system tends to just arbitrarily rate things. I decided on using a 1-6 rating system for multiple reasons. First, it's a more condensed range which means there's less arbitrary rating so you can focus on more broader detail on the ratings instead of needing to justify more stuff in a finer rating system. Second, my numeral system V2B6 is seximal. And third, 6 is pretty much the holy number in MLP as any brony should know. Also, unintentionally, 6 6 6 is the best possible rating which I think is amusing.
Below are the guidelines for the rating system. They are not definite rules. Also, two part episodes share the same VB and DV, whichever episode has the highest.
Entertainment Value:
- 6: Thoroughly entertaining and hilarious
- 5: Thoroughly entertaining or at least a few hilarious moments
- 4: Mostly entertaining likely with a few funny moments
- 3: Not really ever bored but very little or no funny stuff
- 2: Boring most of the time
- 1: Offensively boring
Vibe:
- 6: Great message, great characters, and/or I have personal connection to something
- 5: Same as 6 but not as personal or valuable
- 4: Good message or characters
- 3: Generic message, nothing significant
- 2: I disagree with the message or something just bothers me
- 1: Genuinely bad message or something offends me
Development:
- 6: Lore dump, new characters, new locations, and/or continuity, etc.
- 5: Same as 6 but less significant
- 4: At least one sort of development in the world I find interesting
- 3: Either not really any development or I don't find it interesting
- 2: Has a significant inaccuracy
- 1: Something that cannot happen does
Written 2024-10-8 Published 2024-11-1