Post by Epesi on Jun 17, 2012 23:50:32 GMT -5
Please, do not assume that because I expressed disagreement with you, that I did so out of anger. I just wished to make a rebuttal.
... It was a general statement describing the bare minimum, not putting down your Little Ponies.
From my perspective, it looked like it was meant as a put-down. I suppose it was a miscommunication.
If you go back and read my posts again, you'll notice that I have only been focusing on the animation aspect when I talked about MyLP. I never said anything about MyLP being a bad show because of the simplistic animation, or that high-quality animation equals a good show. I didn't even say whether I liked MyLP or not.
I am sorry that I jumped to conclusions, then. But to explain how things looked from my perspective: you responded to the original poster expressing his love for the show by seemingly trying to "correct" his opinion of its quality. This struck me as rather rude, and is also the sort of thing that haters of the show often do, attempting to prove themselves "right" and the fans "wrong" to like the show.
All I said is that if you thought "the animation is amazing", you should probably look at some top-notch anime to broaden your sight.
And as I already said, this is a logical fallacy. You are saying that if it is true that a person feels the animation in this show is amazing, that it must also be true that they have never seen truly amazing animation and need to be educated. This is both incorrect and, frankly, insulting.
I don't even like anime; I just can't stand it when people overstate things because of their fondness to the subject. If he said "the animation is great", then I have no objections. But when he said "the animation is amazing!!", I think this explicit overstatement is a bit excessive.
You feel it is excessive, but it would seem that he does not. If he truly feels that the show's animation is amazing, then for him to say so is not an overstatement; it's a perfectly accurate statement of his opinion.
It is this kind of fanboy enthusiasm that turns people against your Ponies, just as fundamentalism turns people away from religion, extreme feminism from woman equality, and telemarketers from their business.
Those are not remotely the same things. Enthusiasm is not the problem with fundamentalists and extremists. And when was the last time you ever heard an enthusiastic telemarketer?
I could understand being irritated if JSal27 were spamming the forum with his love for ponies, but he didn't do that; he started a thread about the show in the appropriate subforum. And just because you didn't like his choice of words, you liken him to a telemarketer and say that this sort of thing is what turns people against the show?
Of course, I am not unaware of the merits of MyLP. Aside from your usual "The writing is good, the characters are great, the storylines and plots are amazing", I heard that they also takes great care to their community and values their feedback. This is also the reason why I posted that picture of "Derpy Hooves", as I heard this story of how they care about what the audience wants. I think, that in this day and age of commercialism, having these kind of values is probably more valuable than anything else.
Well, it would have helped if you had said so; I assumed you chose Derpy simply because she was originally an animation error.
) and of course the show itself is very enjoyable.