Is the world G4 is based on our world after all?

[Dr. Pain]

Is the world where Friendships is Magic Earth?

There has been many speculations and (fan) theories about whether or not MLP FiM (AKA G4) takes place in our version of Earth, being that many who have yet to learn anything from past MLP Generations and probably even those who have been fans from the very beginning, noticed that it makes countless references to things that adhere to humanity as a whole, from puns on our cities, to other things where an animal couldn't possibly do without having at least fingers on their arms, like humans do.

And although many others dismiss this as just silliness being that it is a children's cartoon, and thus, supposed not to be taken seriously in the least, some notice it is hard to do this being that Friendship is Magic has been a rollercoaster of references to even other shows, movies, and pop culture, therefore "ponying up" virtually everything we experience in real life.

But does that mean FiM takes place on present day Earth?

Let’s take a look on the first show based on G1, on it we learn ponies live a happy carefree life in a land where seemingly, no human culture seems to be present, although small things like the ponies using human tools and even living in houses instead of barns, or in the wild completely, is verily apparent. There are however, humanlike characters in the vein of antagonists, and of course, humans as well, although they do not live in the same place as the ponies reside, rather, when they are attacked (and trapped) by the main antagonist within the first movie of the series, one of them, Firefly, flies off seeking help. She flies "over the rainbow" as stated in the series, finding a parallel world to her own, but where is more populated and instead of ponies, she finds the likes of Megan and her siblings, where Firefly’s kind are seen as mere creatures of burden. This doesn't seem to deter Firefly as she asks Megan to accompany her back to her own world, again, "over the rainbow" and to defeat the evil king who is currently turning them all into dragons to accomplish his sinister goals. At the end of the movie where G1 is taking place, Megan decides to remain with the ponies, even though not completely as she asks Firefly to fly her over and back again on the consequintive episodes that follows. We see that in later episodes, characters like witches who are also seemingly human antagonize the ponies although it is never stated if they are part of their world, come from our world, or anywhere else "over the rainbow".

It is clear that the world where Megan lives is apart from where Firefly is...or is it? The series never mentions if the rainbow where Firefly uses to cross over time and time again is actually a portal to other worlds or just Earth, or that the ponies live deep within our world in a place no one else can find unless they follow that specific rainbow to cross over. Again, in the pony world, not much is in tangent with ours, and no references are made about our world in it either.

After other series take place, mainly the one based on the G3 series, we learn that said rainbow is never mention, not even Megan, and that reference to the human world is vague, although we notice that the ponies themselves have established a more culturist way of life, and that their world is now more populated instead of being in a single spot, with cities, castles, and other ways of civic life. The ponies have also seemed to become more anthropomorphic in a way that now their hooves are not limited to just try and cope with anything they want to do, things like bending their limbs to grasp items and even run in their hind legs are apparent...if not disturbing.

But we do not see any reference to our world during these series. A curious fact that, while that human relation seems to have been lost, many things within the G3 show has been adapted into the current G4 version, including the ponies' main living city, Ponyville, and that they still are as anthropomorphic as they can be in terms of acting human like without ever becoming them entirely.

So we could assume that G3 has evolved into G4 or it has been adapted into it, perhaps even as far as to say that the world where G3 and G4 is the same since Ponyville is the center of both universes.

However how is it that while G3 makes almost no reference to humans or our world G4 seems blatantly full with such?

There is a gap between these two Generations obviously.

What happened in said gap then? A time period that probably would be measured in thousands of year’s maybe?

Or...

Maybe a speculation that every Generation of ponies live in a different version of their own world?

Should that rainbow mentioned in G1 be but a doorway that splits all these worlds including our own, where in fact, the world of the ponies IS our world but just a different version of it where instead of humans being the dominant species the ponies have been chosen as such?

I could agree in such, but I would never agree that ANY world of EVERY Generation of ponies is Earth on any different timeline whatsoever.

Not in the least.

EDIT: Corrections in spelling and grammar as far as my skills can muster.

[weirdraptor]

I wouldn't say present Earth, but likely our distant future after mankind has finally wiped itself and equestrians have taken our place as the dominant species. Just you wait, there'll be a guest human character who's an astronaut that's been hovering around Earth frozen in space. He'll thaw out, come back down, and the episode end will like this:

[Al1701]

Get you hooves off me, you damn, dirty equines.