MLP, S8 - March 27

To be brief and to the point. In seasons past, MLP: FiM has taken on Starlight Glimmer and her godless communism; this time, this season, it seems to be chancellor Neighsayer, and his racial segregation shtick.

No, really, this is how this season of MLP works – Twilight Sparkle has opened a school for friendship, and the focus on this season’s premiere episodes was on six students who were a pony, a yak, a changeling, a dragon, a griffon and a hippogriff, symbolizing or standing in for racial variability and integration. The evil chancellor is against this sort of thing, so yes, he is a segregationist and is liable to get into trouble with the rest of Celestia’s (and Luna’s) government before this season is done. Yay for MLP and its’ way of dealing with the thorny real life issues, superior to the one done by AoS. Anything else?

Not in particular, since real life sucks, especially in Russia – there was a major fire with many causalities in a shopping center, in another city there was a mass poisoning due to a mismanaged garbage disposal ground and the MeToo movement has surfaced in that country at last, so it’s been a very exciting post-elections time there after all.

Back to MLP? Ever since the storm king movie…the canon there is that the seaponies and the hippogriffs can transform into one another…by magic. How high was the mind that came with that idea, as an off topic? In real life myths, hippogriffs are born from griffons and horses, an impossibility because griffons hate horses and would rather kill or eat them instead of mating. And yes, both griffons and hippogriffs are mythical beasts that never existed outside of one’s imagination, yet even in Middle Ages people accepted that the hippogriffs were twice as mythical as, say, dragons or unicorns, because griffons would never mate with horses, both because they were imaginary and hated horses, so if a hippogriff came into existence, it was very lucky…but also associated with a griffon, and – its’ relative. So where did the seaponies fit/came in? Some great wit in the MLP creative team stretched their creative muscle and came with the instance sea-to-sky conversion in the storm king movie? Who knows…

So. The new season of MLP has shown that it continues to be one crazy world, connecting components of reality, and imagination, and myths, and its’ own content. Good luck to it. And – see you all soon!