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Post by Bright Glow on Aug 8, 2014 8:26:46 GMT -8
I can't help but wondering lately if there was any information about if the Disney and/or Hasbro planned any more sasons for the MLP Tales? Any ideas about how it would continued if it wouldn't shot down? I don't know how informations came out in the 80's and 90's but I understand if there are so little information from those time since the internet or the media wasn't as mutch modernas it is in these days. I mean there wasn't that mutch sources as it has today plus the internet only lunched in the 90's. The big thing witch is making me a bit sad is that it seems the MLP FIM media is ruling the MLP media and even the tumblr too and I can not find any good tumblrs about the earlier generations only ones like Moondancer's heck yea ponyscans.
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Post by Notes on Aug 9, 2014 17:18:16 GMT -8
I know... I HATE how Hasbro and Disney aren't going to end up going back to Tales. It's a real bummer. I think the writers were prepared to write another season that they just... never got the greenlight to do. If the internet existed back in the day, you better believe Tales would have run for longer. Figuring out episodes that would have been made, though... hooo boy. That is depressing and brings about too many possibilities, though exploring stuff through fanfics is really truly fun, and at least there are more people doing that and bringing more stuff to the table. And, between you, me, and everyone else on the internet, Bright Glow... I think that one day we WILL have a season 2. A fanmade one. We have scriptwriters, voice actors and animators in the fandom, as well as the tech to do it. And if not a fully animated one, then someone will write it all in Tales show style. And it will be glorious, whatever happens.
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Post by Bright Glow on Aug 10, 2014 9:40:04 GMT -8
Well when I discovered the MLp fandom on the 25th Feb 2007 befor I officalli joined to the community at the MLP Arene on the 1st Jan 2008 I discovered Teddy's site as the 3rd MLp site ever right afther the Shuman Ringlet and rhe MLp Arena. Anyway on Teddy's site between the the owner's favourite links two RPG sites witch seemed to be just died out before I found them in 2007 meanwhile the show was running in 1992 if I know well. Note as I see the second RPG site went down since I last checked it out about 2 months ago.
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Post by bobdude on Aug 10, 2014 19:18:36 GMT -8
(Wrote this and didn't notice the two other pages to the thread until the very end. Sorry bout that).
Think that I have to repeat what sunstar and weirdraptor said, try not to let this sort of stuff get to ya too much Al, cheap slocky shock value stuff has always been massively popular among fandoms and readers since the very beginnings of writing. My personal advice, if you don't already do it that is, is to advertise. Make a Youtube video trailer for your fanfics (assuming you have the tech know how that is, giving the number and quality of PMV out there, it can't be THAT hard), bring it up in your reviews at the tail end of them or something. Mention them on internet forums/post them on different internet forums. That sort of thing. Get the word out on your stories and try to get people more engaged in your work.
As for the whole complexity issue between MLP N Friends and Friendship is magic... That is a very complicated quagmire of a topic. In my honest and humble opinion, the cast of MLP N Friends are a touch on the mono-dimensional side. That is not, however, a bad thing. Quite frankly you can make the same criticism of G1 Transformers (often considered the holy grail of Transformers cartoons for reasons that shall forever baffle me)and Gi Joe Real American Hero and it's just as valid there. Two things that I think a lot of people don't take into account is a thing called context. MLP N Friends was a toy merchandise cartoon made in the 1980s with a LOT of characters that were a part of said toy line. It did not have steady, 22 minute, 26 episode seasons. Nor did it have the advantage of an animation study that was invested deeply in making sure it's show came to life with solid consistency.
It had (if they were lucky) 4 part serials made up of ten minutes each, with some big dramatic cliff hanger at the end of each part. Add in the fact that the episodes more often than not were adventure stories, with little time for character reflection as well as the fact that there's an entire freaking HERD of ponies to keep track of (Plus Spike, the William siblings, the Moochick, the Witches, ect) and inventively the cast is going to be a touch on the flat side. That isn't to say that they lack personality (one noteish though it may be), it's just that the show's focus wasn't on the characters (The Nostalgia Chick's criticism in that regard never sat well with me) so much as it was the fantasy adventure aspects of it (exceptions such as Sweet Stuff and the Treasure Hunt aside, obviously).
Not every media can balance out character complexity with character personality. Sometimes you can have complexity, some times you have to settle for having a memorable character. And sometimes you can't have both and have to go with 'memorability' as a necessary evil of sorts.
Friendship Is Magic, ironically in some ways, is MLP N Friend opposite. The big adventure stuff is saved for the beginning and end of the season while the meat of the season is covered by slice of life situations. Hell, the simple fact that FiM has more than two 22 minute full 26 episode seasons alone has allowed the writers to explore more sides to it's characters and setting than any other MLP toon before it (also, lot easier to make a cast of six or seven have more noticeable personality traits than a cast of 40+, generally speaking).
So, to make this long and no doubt disjointed post short, I'm taking the middle man approach to all this stuff. Like both casts fine and recognize that both were/are made in different times with different standards placed on them. Though for what it's worth, Twilight (while very intilgent and book smart) is not very logical while WW is very logical, but (verbose vocabulary aside) not as book smart (what with Dream Valley lacking a central library/education system of any sort). So the two would, I think, make for an interesting contrast were they ever to have a conversation with one another (WW would no doubt be very baffled/confused by Twilight's behavior in Lesson Zero and at the Canterlot Wedding. "Why did you not simply point out that your once-baby sitter completely ignored your childhood chant ritual? Or point out that her magic was a completely different color?")
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Post by Al1701 on Aug 14, 2014 10:25:00 GMT -8
Apparently I'm not the only one who has realized the problem is the audience. I watched a video by Jerry Peat where he comes right out and says bronies flock to bad stories because they honestly think it's good. Their sense of taste is warped.
Another problem is you don't get noticed for just being a writer. If you aren't friends with a bunch of people who will carry your water, you're screwed. Animators and artists will get instant recognition because you just have to see picture or watch the animation. Reading a story, especially one with a plot that requires you to think, is harder to absorb.
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Post by bobdude on Aug 14, 2014 14:19:43 GMT -8
In fairness, you could say that about any fandom or just about people in general. Sturgeon's law and all that jazz. As for not being recognized for just your writing, when you have a fandom as LARGE as the Brony fandom, stories are inevitably going to slip under the radar. I think you're on the right step, having a good cover can help a lot in getting people interested in the story, as does having a good summery. Like I said before Al, if you don't ready do this, advertise your fanfic like you do your video reviews.
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