Once again, I want to thank you all so much for your support through this G5 journey! It has been 2 years building up to this point, and while I have enjoyed reviewing Make Your Mark, I believe it is time for me to focus on some videos that are actually about something I liked. Speaking of which, anyone here know if the cider in MLP is alcoholic? 👀 ua-cam.com/video/oA_xNHXNCt0/v-deo.html
That’s what I said his voice was so deep I also didn’t like how sunny defeated opline so quick without her friends what happened to cutie mark magic they need help
I feel so bad for the people who made the G5 movie. While the final product was flawed, it was clear that the people behind it were trying their best to set up a new generation of mlp. Writers of MYM did not even try to make anything more than a safe kids' cartoon. What a waste of potential and a stain on G4's legacy.
literally the movie was about as good as it can get with some reasonable flaws. the voice acting was good, it wasn’t too baby-ish.. but this?? i literally can’t force myself to watch more of it and i’ve seen less than one season
@@airbornemelody6156 Yeah G4 and the G5 movie didn't talk down to its audience MYM and TYT really do that a ton and it shows which is a shame G5 had potential and there are so many good moments in there but they don't focus on those moments or flesh them out
I'm devastated by the fact that Twilight and the others couldn't deal with the opaline, After all, THEY fought against more powerful enemies, such as Lord Tirek edyt: besides, alicorns are really snobbish creatures, instead of locking opaline in a dungeon, they preferred to get rid of the problem by throwing her out of their wonderful land, | Ssso equestria, Nnow it's your problem.
Yes finally!!! Someone said it!Like-twilight and her friends fought villains that are a hundred times more powerful than opaline, and they defeated them with the "magic of friendship thing"
Chapter 1: will there be continuity between G5 and G4? Chapter 4: There isn't even continuity between Make Your Mark and Tell Your Tale Chapter 6: There isn't even continuity between two scenes in the same episode.
They're also all so ugly... Why is everyone coloured like a neon sign? IF i had gotten a toy like that as a kid I would have hung it for being ugly lol
G5 has got to be nothing more than a fever dream after Twilight ate too many hayburgers. There is no way to piece together the cannon to G4, especially when entire species no longer look as they once did, and things don't even function the same way anymore.
It *can* work... You just have to assume the crystals are mind controlling everyone to make them dumb to shift things in the way Twi wants And also the crystals, while sapient, are completely insane due to being separated for too long And also the crystals themselves are casting magic instead of the ponies And also Opaline herself was under the mind control of the crystals this whole time And also Twilight did EXTENSIVE genetic modification of multiple species for no good reason And also the Island of Scaly isn't the dragon lands, but developed its own tradition of dragon lord because ??? ...It *can* work, but you need to take massive leaps to give the show any credit.
@@hollycat6654 Yeah maybe Celestia leaving equestria to a pony prone to anxiety and panic attacks wasn't the best option especially with how she handles moving the sun and moon which has yet to be explained why the world can function normally
Yea don’t worry after a few drinks I am feeling better now! They must have gotten ahold of some bad weed or something…. To make me look and sound like this is just a huge F-you to my legacy.
After the way this series butchered Twilight, it was only natural that her #1 assistant/adopted son/surrogate little brother would get the same treatment.
The part of G5 that i dislike the most is the lack of caring for the rest of the mane 6 that aren't twilight, like, it's *THE MANE 6* , not TWILIGHT & her friends, is it that difficult to say "rainbow dash was one of the most legendary flyers to ever exits" or "rarity was the most glamorous unicorn ever" or even "fluttershy was kind"
My biggest gripe is they never answer WHAT HAPPENED to all the other alicorns! Opaline is so incredibly incompetent as a villain; where are Twi, Flurry Heart, and Cadence? Why is Opaline still around and the others have vanished? I thought Spike would fill us in but nope, just more confusing and sloppy world building (if you can call it that).
Considering it was Twilight who got rid of the magic, and she and the other princess are literally charged up magical batteries, she had to have put herself and the other princesses in some kind of deep slumber like the dragons. Or maybe they all went to the human world and hid there, who knows. She has options though, like a lot of options. I'm going to guess that she is in a pocket dimension like the original elements of harmony, and at some point in the next chapter or so, she is going to be released. Along with discord and the princesses.
@@demonheart13 that would likely make the fandom angrier ngl, a LOT of people are hating on the fact that it's connected to G4, In a very.. VERY.. poor manner.
And now it seems Spike is gonna be living without being able to remember his past since he has amnesia(as in he can't remember everything) due to the stupid sleep spell Twilight did to him. And most likely its not gonna be fixed ever.
To me, it just doesn't make sense that if Opaline was supposedly was around when Celestia and Luna were FILLIES, and Spike has come back to be the new dragon lord, shouldn't Twilight be alive? And also what about Cadence, Flurry Heart and Discord? As well as Celestia and Luna? It was proven in Gen 4 that all of them were immortal. And what about the Windigos? Shouldn't they have come back when every pony rase was fighting and hating on each other? It just doesn't make sense... So many unanswered questions!
Actually the comics give info on what happened to discord, and the comic had better writing. Basically the characters visit the ruins of Canterlot and after falling down a trap door, they meet an old discord, and he stole the crystal out of fear of magic returning and causing more problems
Also! The Windigoes need long term anger between two or more races in order to feed, without something like decades or centuries then they are unable to reform That's why they were never able to appear As for the Alicorns? Maybe Skyros or something? Idk
I don't exactly know if it was proven in _G4_ that they were immortal, if anything G5 proved it with Opaline (or maybe she's been trapped in a place like limbo for centuries) but I could be missing something there. But it would be weird if all of the older alicorns were directly killed, travelled somewhere else, or trapped somewhere?? If they are immortal and didn't just die naturally, I mean.
@@eglol They seem to be semi-immortal, they are immune to aging but are still killable and are susceptible to extremely potent and infectious diseases or afflictions The whole disappearance of them entirely is something I cannot really explain aside from massive plot hole
They’re mocking, twilights intelligence in the show severely It’s so offensive honestly they did twilight and her friends really dirty in this show I definitely feel like twilight would’ve come up with a a much better solution But they need to dump twilight down in order to make this stupid show happen But I promise you twilight would’ve found a way to defeat her or put her away somewhere
A marry sue is a character in which the plot changes and morphs around to suit them....just saying the writtings on the wall. That's what g5 feels like....fanfiction.
Ikr? You’re telling me Twilight was able to defeat a very powerful centaur, changeling queen, and Alicorn all at once (on top of Windigos), but couldn’t defeat the most pathetic Alicorn or just villain I’ve ever seen in MLP? Whoever wrote that part of G5 in particular deserves to never be involved with writing or visual media ever again.
@@sweetdreams1028 apparently Hasbro lost the rights to some of the g4 seasons if what people tell me are right this would explain the errors. What it doesn't explain is why they continue to cling to g4s relevance if they can't even do it right.
@@gamingonamonday6342 exactly. Also, there are many MLP fanfics out there that are really good, G5 is more like a bad fanfic. The good fanfics you can tell are someone who cares about the world and or characters of G4 and wanted to tell a good story with them for valid reasons, whereas bad ones are just ones where they just wanted to tell a story connected to G4 without thinking anything about what they’re writing. Plus, at least fanfics are ignorable, whereas G5 is confirmed to be in the same universe as G4. Though at this point, it’s my head canon that G5 is just Lil Cheese playing with some toys of the mane six and random figures who are the characters in G5 and was just making a crazy story with them just for fun.
I think G4 was made originally with some genuine love for the property. That's why it was so good. G5 was just made as a cash grab to ride the coattails of G4's success.
G5 was made to bridge the gap between the two. It is clear they were seemingly moving away from G4 lore towards the end. Thge issue is Hasbro and losing control over their own Ip... AGAIN! So because of all the legal bullshit Make your Mark suffered as a result. It also Hasbro literally knee capping it from the start by pulling Boulder Media off the production of the show itself.
No. G1 was the first iteration of MLP. It kicked off the property and let's be honest, every generation has been made to sell toys. It feels like Lauren Faust produced a good show due to her love of the original generations. She put heart into it. There was a long time in between G3 and G4.
@@baffledbrandon3132 Agreed. Especially towards the end it was clear they were just roping things together to close open ends. Even through a lot of it didnt make a lot of sense.
Not only do the dragons have ‘cutie marks’ but Sparky himself was born with wings, even though we saw through Spike that dragons get their wings at a later stage as they moult.
I mean that could be excused with the fact it's been hundreds of years. And that maybe evolution or magic changed it. The other things like how the older dragons look however, doesn't make sense
@@Its_Asteria not to mention all the dragons are shown as quadrupeds including Spike who was born bipedal like Sparky is - are we to assume Sparky will become four legged as an adult too? 🤷♀️
I’m pretty sure most dragons were born with wings and that spike only gained them because as Zechora states the molt comes with little surprises. And that Spike gaining wings was his surprise implying that the molt leads to different developmental anomalies for some dragons.
I will say, G5 has a lot of great potential when the movie dropped, but after watching the entire of Make Your Mark, it’s just sad that all of the great concepts go to waste. There are a few good moments that makes it enjoyable, but everything else is just a mess. Man, what a wild ride.
My thoughts exactly, the movie made it seem like this could be promising, but then the show dropped…some of the characters don’t even feel like the ones in the movie.. :/ oh well
So apparently why dragons have cutie marks according to the wiki “Each dragon has special dragonfire magic with different abilities. Currently we know that Spike has teleportation magic, Sparky has transformation magic, Tumble has wind magic, Luxxe has light magic and Fountain has water magic. What types of dragon magic other dragons have, like Blaize, Leaf, Jade, or Lava is currently unknown.” So like Elemental Dragons….?
Wait so if dragons' "cutie marks" are related to their type of magic, then why doesn't cocomelon have one? He can use his transformation magic just fine as a baby. God, is this worldbuilding awful...
I would assume that Leaf has nature magic, Blaize has regular fire magic, Jade has crystal magic, and Lava has, well the very obv lava/magma magic. But we didn't really get to see any of that besides the regular dragon fire all dragons typically seem to have.
G5 is like an overdrawn G4 fanfic at this point. The show takes wayyy too far ahead in the future for them to be able to add stuff and for it still to be connected to G4.
They could have done it and make it work, but they were probably too lazy for that. In that case, it may have been better to make two cmpletly different univers, if they were too lazy to make it coherent..
@@aaazzz8324 that’s what I’m saying And just to ezz the pain of this is Shell being connected to G4. I’m just gonna go on a whim and say that the finale of season five when the time travel scroll got stuck in time and we don’t know where it ended up I have a theory that it ended up in a another time line of the show and went into the alternate timeline that became this disgrace so that way it’s not connected to G4. It’s just a weird alternative timeline and So we don’t all Keep G4 as as its own thing
@@eglol sadly, that’s the case. Because in Chapter Five, Elder Flower mentions it’s been around five generations since G4. AKA, only around a hundred to two hundred years.
To be fair, thatd be better as a spin off, since it wont be their yknow, trade mark my little PONY, but yeah they felt underdeveloped and late in mlp FIM, i think they coulda start with twilights pupil to continue tbh
I think the ideal idea would be to make a spinoff about some state on another continent, in which there is discord, racism, all that, but one day the main character (or main characters) learns about Equestria, about how great the M6 have set up life there. From this moment on, the main characters of the new show would try to do the same in their country, devoured by contradictions and conflicts. Something like the River Union from Equestria at war, but more peaceful so that everything would be family friendly.
Young 6 spinoff would've been so gooood, plus it would fix the g4 writers' horrible mistake of not giving any individual episode screentime to the students in the last two seasons
@@chels8302The only problem with making twilight's pupil The new main character in G5 is that It's hinted that The cycle just continues. She goes to ponyville, makes a group of new friends, defeats a villain with them, they become the new elements, ect. I do still have a lot of unanswered questions about the past though.
The reason the continuity of the G5 is screwed is because Hasbro, in all their infinite wisdom, not only sold the broadcasting rights to seasons 5-9 to Discovery, but also the rights to a ton of elements and characters to G4 and still don't have them back. Which is why all of the G4 connections to G5 don't make a helluva lotta sense.
I remember being cautiously optimistic at start of g5, then the movie made me really hopeful, the special made me bqck to cautious, and then the series made me slowly lose braincells
@@AxsorXI I mean, most bronies do not support hasbro and that's kind of the problem, because they just don't make up a significant market, just enough to be acknowledged. If more of them coughed out money then there would be more of a focus on them because hasbro is a corperation and they do run on money and the desire for money.
You wanna know why, despite Opaline getting all the Cutie Marks, I wasn't worried? Not because of the obvious fact the good guys would win... but because nopony had any negative reaction to losing their mark other than fear or sadness. In season 5, it was made quite clear, when Starlight was removing Cutie Marks, it HURT! Twilight and the Mane 6 seemed to be genuinely in either pain or severe discomfort as their Marks were being removed. Yet, in G5, it's not even a problem. They come off as easily and painlessly as a water tattoo. As for the locket part? I thought this show took place in the same universe as G4, not G1! You can't have it both ways, Make Your Mark. Pick an MLP generation you want to bastardize and stick with it! Hay, there's been more coherent references to G1 than G4 throughout all of Make Your Mark, so why didn't they just stick with being in the same universe as G1? I'd actually think that would add way more depth and meaning to the show than being connected to G4 has been. As for Secrets of Starlight, I'm even more underwhelmed than I thought I'd be, and that's saying something. Is it supposed to be the new version of the Crystal Empire? Logically, doubt it. Nothing looks even close aside from being near snow and the crystal ascetic of the horns... not to mention it would make NO SENSE that the future version of the Crystal Empire is in another world that needs a portal to get there! Then again, the Dragon Lands weren't a separate island nor lush with tropical vegetation in G4, so why should I be the least bit surprised if G5 decided to completely alter everything about the Crystal Empire too? Ember's absence and not being the Dragon Lord is a HUGE plot hole as, unless Opaline killed Ember before Twilight sent Spike to go with the dragons, it makes no sense why Spike is the Dragon Lord and was even before Twilight’s somehow Dumber than we originally thought possible plan was put into motion. At least G5 proper isn't making Discord an old fart who CAN use magic, but isn't doing anything with it, like, I dunno, PUNISH Opaline for ruining everything he'd have held dear!
I'm incredibly inclined to write a story specifically for the purpose of de-legitimizing G5 out of spite. Like how Running with Scissors retconned Postal 3 and turned it into a running gag, when Rick killed the Space Jam 2 counterparts of him and Morty and also how Avengers #200 was undone.
I think taking the cutie marks away wasn’t painful because when starlight used to do that, she cast a spell on a staff but opaline used a totally different spell, which is more painless and easier since if posey actually screamed in pain, the chapter would have ended in chapter 5
@@baeldaikokuten_yj6792 what they meant by is that Starlight removing The Mane Six’s cutie marks more negatively effected them. Like, Pinkie losing her spirit, Applejack losing her strength and talent of countryisms, or Fluttershy no longer being able to understand animals or communicate with them.
The heart locket is a call back to Gen 1 ponies from the 80s. From a human girl named Megan. She always helping the ponies from danger in the pony world. I recognized it imminently i use to watch it when i was a child. xD
@@pemanilnoobsame When I saw the locket open, I was like “is that the first time the Rainbow of Light has been referenced in the G4-G5 continuity outside of just rainbow lasers?” And then I remembered, nope, the Generations comic beat them to it
I watched G1 as a child long time ago, but i totally forgot about the heart locket, until someone mentioned the locket Sunny got looked like this one from G1. I think it was a nice reference to G1 that they brought the magic rainbow in G5, if only it they didn’t just use it as a « because magic happens » thing
The sad thing is I wonder if they even knew or if they literally just went "lol heart locket with rainbows the girls will love this" because of how everything else is, I feel it's the latter even though I really want to believe it's a reference/call back.
@@marshmallowbiscuit4553well. Since it really look like the one in G1, I believe its really a reference to that, but they could have done it for both those reasons at the same time.
Yes!! I thought Allura was gonna be a one time episode villain, but she ended up being once again, a whole season villain. Allura just had a vibe of being a one time villain, maybe disappear and then be back 3 seasons later? Just like what g4 does. But Allura just didn't feel like a whole season villain don't you think? She just felt plain.
I've seen comment that says they didn't translate any songs in Polish dub, until suddenly the last chapter. I didn't watch it, because I prefer my ponies in English, with original voices. But why would you even do that? If you're too lazy to translate songs for the most part, at least stick to it. xD
I don't think it's laziness on the part of the creators, because they are not responsible for translating the series to other languages. People working on Polish and German dub probably didn't get enough time or budget to do a decent dubbing. Also, I'm from Poland and I don't think g5 is popular here (g5 toys don't sell at all and usually go on huge discounts after a while) so maybe translating the songs wasn't profitable because the series wasn't much of a success anyway.
@@najpotenicewolf934All MYM songs were translated to polish (At least up to chapter 5). TYT songs were only translated if they were sang by characters, while the one in the background just got subtitles.
Lmao, same in french. Actually, none of the songs are translated in this chapter, and every time the character are about to sing, they felt the need to make the character announce « im going to sing in english now! ». I find it kind of weird, they could have just sang without announcing they were switching language. I always find it weird when a real life language is directly mentioned in a fantasy world show.
@@aaazzz8324 I just checked some clips for the Polish dub of g5 and the characters in this version also say something like "sing in English!" before they sing. If I had to guess, they did it so that the children wouldn't be confused as to why they can't understand what the characters sing.
9:04 ''Shes been going around, taking cutie marks, and no one knew about it'' Jeez I wonder what that inspiration came from..Ahem ahem, STARLIGHT GLIMMER- ahem..
Fun Fact: the Heart necklace around Sunny’s neck is the Rainbow of Light locket from G1 the OG Element of Harmony what the hell….?❤ (I never watched G1 since I was born in the early 2000s but I just noticed from other reviewers)
When Misty was "transported" by a mysterious fog from the inside of the Wishing Tree of Briddlewood [the "Night Market" of the Breezies] to an open area with Breezie Homes, she was in the G1 Pony World (alternate reality). The Breezie that gifted the Heart Locket with the Rainbow of Light came from that same world.
IDK. The reason Opaline works for me is that there are so many people like her in real life. She builds herself uo to be important and powerful but she's really not all that and seeing past that illusion is a huge process for a lot of people.
G4 already did that with Chrysalis when the hive finally decided to stand up to her and choose their own path; Opaline did have a unique thing going with the abusive relationship with Misty which was good, but Opaline herself was ruined due to TYT toning down this relationship to implying they actually do work together so there's no consistency
@@6-dpegasus425 That's mostly due to different writers if I'm not mistaken. They likely need to downsize the writing team and have more leadership there. -- Also, opaline is great because she is such an unabashed villain. she is like the emperor from old star wars -- she's evil, and she loves it. you gotta respect that.
@PerpetualityHypnosis I do fully like that they made Opaline entirely unsympathetic and grounded as A villain that can't be reformed, I just wish they kept her consistent, but that's just thr consequence of whoever decided to make TYT and then make Opaline a goofball
Unfortunately, the writing team had intended for Opaline to be this end-all be-all Series Antagonist: all without understanding the fundamentals of what makes a Series Antagonist in the first place. They failed to try setting up any sort of emotional connection or weight to the character whenever we see her on-screen, let alone have her serve as a drive for Sunny to defeat because of how personal it is for her. If the story had went that Opaline had killed Argyle; than it'd be motivation enough for Sunny to want to go and fight her to avenge her father.
'If you need an emotional connection to be based on violence to cause drama between characters. ... you might be watching the wrong show for you.' @@0hvist Isn't the whole point of sunny that she is.... NOT like that? This is a girls cartoon, that idea of "violence" why does it need to be violent like that? killing her father? needing revenge? having to right wrongs to be a princess? is this fricken JoJo's ? this isn't some epic anime, it's a girls cartoon, that doesn't fit *at all* with the theme. Opaline was never a villain to sunny, and Sunny is not Twilight Sparkle. If anything, Misty is following in hoofsteps of Twilight more than sunny is. Twilight was kind of an irredeemably mean pony at the start of MLP and grew to become the princess of friendship. Misty might look like she has more similarness to Sunset or Starlight, but both of them had good reasons for being the way they were, Twilight and Misty just didn't have exposure to stuff. Sunny doesn't have a reason to be the be all end all main character. I enjoy that they don't do this with her because she doesn't need to be and it'd destroy what g5 is if she was. If you need an emotional connection to be based on violence to cause drama between characters. ... you might be watching the wrong show for you.
This chapter if what finally got me to scream “OKAY THATS IT! IM MAKING A REWRITE OF THIS THING!” Now the process of rewriting this story and character redesigns has started lol
Like seriously everyone wanting to rewrite this series is so damn lazy. A derivative work isn’t going to save the series and will just be forgotten in the long run. There is also the risk of Hasbro sending a cease and desist order to that project. Want to actually make a difference? MAKE YOUR OWN ORIGINAL SHOW! Make something new that will compete with the MLP franchise as a whole. Because this whole time I was doing just that! I’m writing ideas for my own shows in notebooks and I will write them better than MLP could ever be so that they could replace MLP in popularity in the future. Wish me luck!
I'm afraid that what kills the show for me as a Grown adult is the Animations. I have worked on film sets (as a sound engineer). I have worked on animated projects and always found the process cool. But as someone who enjoyed G4 up until Series 5, I quickly understood just how childish and "low budget" a CGI remake can be. The problem here is the demographic, the show isn't trying to pander to us Bronies or even parents. Its a show for young children that has no problem spelling it out at every turn. The animation is the worst part because these creatures all have rapid movements , weightless flying and battles that feel like the characters are trying to not hit each other. Unlike what I just said, this technique can work for TV shows. Take "Thunderbirds Are Go" From 2015. A remke of a beloved 1965 TV show that managed to be somewhat respectful to the source material (I don't like Thunderbirds 2015 but that's just me). Thunderbirds however was boosted not just by the fact that the characters and craft are CGI in a scale model world, but the action is directed in a way that allows the characters to "look" like they have weight. G4 had the privilege of being 2D with characters that were kind and caring, not sounding too weird when they spoke. I for one, found that the characters in G4 spoke like us. They were like us. Not children, not fools and the villains were actually characters that could spout out one liners without any real problems. G4 has its problems too, but nothing as sould crushing as G5 (Shame because I enjoyed the Movie).
Just move on from MLP. Currently it is a worthless franchise. Stop supporting it. Stop supporting Hasbro. Can some people do it? Gosh! I don't even care about MLP G5. For me Hasbro can keep to ruin its IP, but I'm sorry for Lauren Faust. She knew how to draw a dragon. Instead those animators of this animated series can't even draw dragons with a good design. Talk about incompetence. That's it.
@@AxsorXI I am sorry to say that I will not give up on the show. I will not watch it, unless I'm bored, but otherwise I will not wish for them to cancel their show that is obviously not aimed for me. I don't think I'll ever let go of the fandom either, but I know full well that I cannot continue to watch this show in a critical light because of how it treats the show as kids, not a family show.
@@AxsorXI You keep spamming this message on every comment section Honestly think you're not a fan of MLP and just want people to stop being bronies because you don't like it
@@ImmaLittlePip For your information I used to like MLP:FIM when it was a decent animated show for families during its first seasons. I don't like Hasbro and bronies because they ruined the original vision of the franchise by Lauren Faust.
G5 had a LOT of potential and they never reached it a little bit. It's really sad and I don't think I'm the only one who don't think this is canon at all. I still enjoyed the episode a bit and your videos about it. I didn't expected anything from the show after the first chapter and my expectations were made.
I agree. G5 has disappointed me :( Which is a shame cause I enjoyed the movie (but I didn't like everything about it, didn't feel right that it was set in the G4 universe)
what i feel is the worst part is the existence of continuity aka existence of twilight and spike and other alicorns. then the lack of continuity of anyone who doesn't have wings can't walk on the clouds, where is ember, how did dragons get cutie marks, and what is going on.
G5 could have taken such a different approach like the school of magic??? Or even the next generation of ponies??? Twilights heir? The children of the mane six? Rarity’s fashion industry??? Idk there are so many different options that could have been done and honestly this doesn’t even seem like MLP it’s like a knock off that tried to be MLP but copyright infringement. It’s very goofy and not good.
You know whats sad G5 had so much potential but being tied to G4 was always going to hurt it from shining on its own The movie was so good I remember how much that movie sparked new life into the fandom that we hadn't seen since the mid 2010s and when G4 was ending But man as the show went on (Batch releases didn't help) more and more just stop caring, heck TYT no one cares about that show anymore when a new episode releases especially since the new episodes spoiled a ton of Chapter 6 One best way to describe this show is squandered potential that was shadowed over its much more successful generation Its a real shame. Chapter 5 and the latter half of chapter 4 was when the show was finally finding its footing. there was hope that the shows writing was improving but chapter 6 it goes out with a whimper ITs obvious that the next G5 cgi show is going to be called something new and each season is going to be treated like a book with "chapters" (Man I miss weekly releases it built up so much hype in the fandom)
@@shangothunder1055 What are you talking about? I enjoy G5 and gave it props but sadly its true its going to be in G4's shadow due to it not only coming after it but also being a SEQUEL to it so its going to be compared since its the same universe
Secrets of Starlight. Do you mean they're going to find something left behind by Starlight Glimmer that gives us an insight into what happened? No, of course not.
I love how TYT spoiled this chapter by cramming 2 whole 20min episodes into 5min. 😂 but then 68 happened. It spoils ch7 and I had no idea what I was looking at for 5 whole minutes. I am only thankful there was no 69 yesterday. Good job HasBros. 🤔
If I were to rewrite this show I’d make the first season about the ponies learning how to use their powers and building back trust and friendship between the species of ponies meanwhile after each breakthrough episode we get a peek at Opaline observing and making plans (it really bothered me how they all adapted to their magic so quickly and immediately trusted each other after one episode. Also I think Opaline would have been gathering research and all before attacking because they make it clear that so much has changed ). Then season two we learn more about Opalines past well they start their plan to take over… that’s all I got but that’s how I expected the show to start and wished it’s what we got
When I first saw the "dragons" on the MLP subreddit, I thought they were pony/dragon hybrids, not pure dragons. They literally look EXACTLY like some pony/dragon hybrid OCs I have seen.
The locket with the rainbow is actually a call back to G1 MLP. It was called the Rainbow of Light. There was also one of Darkness. The rainbow of light was kept in a locket that Meagan (the blonde headed human girl) wore around her neck most of the time.
@@DragonQueen78 Unfortunately it is But we can still pretend it isnt! thats what I like to do, atleast (As a fellow member of the brony fandom, I am sincerely sorry to those who actually enjoyed G5, this is my personal opinion)
there are times where something is considered as canon by the writers and that can be overridden by a general fan consensus it isn't. in this case, i think we can safely headcanon retcon this crap away since it doesn't even fit in with the lore and setting they decided to go with. its not just that it's awful, but that it also can't be canon, no matter how you try to explain how it is. pretty much like harry potter and the cursed child. writer says its canon. everyone disagrees. the writers don't always know best.
Congrats on making this far. Like really. I don’t think most could. So, what are you gonna do after this? I would go back to the old G4 episodes myself. Twilight and Spike were so out of character. Opaline should’ve been defeated chapters ago. I swear the animation looks worse than the previous chapters. Timeline? What that? Etc, etc, etc… Bravo man.
I honest think that the best way to End this mess is get Opaline become GOD OF FIRE, then Reset the whole Universe, like what they did in Mortal Kombat 1.
Sorry, but I disagree with two things you said in this comment: 1) Spike wasn't out of character. He may older and quite rusty now, but he's shown to still have that playful and determined personality he had in G4. 2) The animation didn't look worse; it actually looked a little better than it did in Chapters 4 and 5. In fact, I noticed in a few closeup shots that there great details of the ponies coats.
@@jordantrainor2617 yeah the animation has improved each chapter and it's why I expect more g5 but not as 'make your mark' but a different one. tyt, mym, so like, pyp (playing your part? would fit well with what spike said to sunny.) chapter 1 is almost unwatchable with how jerky and plastic it is versus chapter 6. I think that a lot of people are forgetting that MLP g4 season one kinda... looked really bad versus it's later seasons. The reason the animation was praised in 2010/2011 is because it was still *better* than most shows at the time. hindsight or watching it later makes g4 and g5's animation progression, honestly, in favor of g5. they learned much quicker.
@@PerpetualityHypnosis I guess the reason why the G4 is forgiven despite having bad animation, the designs and backgrounds were flashy and stylized this generation is not like that, I think it would have done better with 2D animation.
there was actually a scene in Secrets of Starlight that shocked me quite a bit, you have to pay attention, but before Allura enters the portal to Equestria, there's a sort of telepathic connection between Allura and possibly another snow leopard, who Allura says is her 'brother'. This 'brother' says to Allura "you fool! you had the star the whole time!" and Allura says back aloud "don't worry, brother. I'll get it back". I think this time round we may be facing two villians instead of one.
Yes, its gives me hope that we may have a better vilain introduced. Because lets be honest, if its was just Allura, it would have been quite disappointing. She doesn’t seem very threatening. Just an Opalin number 2.
It is truly sad how Make your Mark has gone from somewhat enjoyable to What the ever loving (bleep) are they thinking. It has well and truly lost its way, and like you I have given it up to save what few shreds of sanity are still mine to keep. 0~o
@@tanishataruvinga6057 I'm not talking about Misty being from Bridlewood and Alphabittle being her father; I'm talking about HOW and WHEN Opaline found her. It's implied in Chapter 2 but never explained.
Fusterclucks like this are why I hate hate HATED the decision to attach G5 to G4, even back when G5 was just one decent film. I was so fascinated by the leaked emails that showed a potential reimagining of ponies with a brand new setting entirely... but instead we got G4: The Revengeance - This Time It's Awful. Such a waste...
I enjoy the show for the moment because from the first chapter I already knew all the connections that will be established with FiM will make no sense, so I'm acting like I've never seen FiM series before so it helps and doesn't disturbed the experience to appreciate all the others aspects of the show. We clearly see the struggle the direction of G5 took because they want the continuity to work for the fans without taking the FiM universe seriously and do whatever they like. G5 is a bad show because they don't know what they're doing and can't choose: - If you want to continue in the FiM universe, do it properly or - Create a new show with a completly new universe, that's it Sadly the writing doesn't respect his own show, the major issue is the characters being lost on their actions in so many situations, I feel like it’s getting better overall over the time but it will never fix the show and it’s impossible to go back again
I really thought they were going to say Izzy *was* an auroricorn too in that special because it really seemed to be setting up that way. Like how familiar she kept saying it was and the fact, oh yeah, HER HORN LITERALLY TURNED INTO THE CRYSTAL HORN THEY ALL HAVE AND MISTY’s DIDNT??? Only for this not to happen and not only that, none of the others noticed her horn complete with the little piece ONLY the auroricorns have??? NO ONE?? 😭 I still feel like this has to be some set up for later, especially since Izzy is obsessed with luminescence, the only similar thing is the way the auroricorns talk about their regional magic. It HAS to be intentional but knowing how bad G5 is doing and the writing is… how it is. It would surprise me none if that never gets mentioned again even if the series does continue
I was wondering why Izzy’s horn was crystal and not Misty’s. Misty’s horn has always looked a bit different than other unicorns ones, so i thought maybe thats why her horn did transform into crystal. I wonder why her horn looks different, but i guess there’s not really a particular reason, maybe they just have different look because the designer thought it would be nice to offer more “variety” in the looks of each pony’s. I like your theory tho, its would be a cool story to bring.
I'm gonna "protect" things by basically being the thing that kills them Don't worry, magic will be fine, i'm just gonna remove it from the world because i'm that powerful. Also I'm the villain. I mean forget that last part and also forget gen 4 but also not really
the designs are genuinely so ugly here. opaline, the dragons, the snow leopard I can't be bothered to remember... all hideous. a lot of it is probably for stupid marketing, too. the fans, new and old, really deserved better than this abomination of a story with more plot holes than swiss cheese.
True, I was hoping Starlight Glimmer would've came back and finally wrapped up the lose ends of the missing history but instead it's some awful looking weird lion villain
It’s a big F U to all the previous MLP fans. Which is a shame because they could have done so much more with the character building and storyline. It’s obviously targeted to a younger audience my six year old daughter binge watched the whole series without any complaints and as I was watching it with her it just felt very meh and boring compared to everything else on Netflix.
All the dragons look like they came out of the Barbie movies, those old ones in 3D. Seriously, Spyro made better models than these and I'm not talking about the remake.
@@soniquefus there was also cat lady, the three witches and the smooze, and I'm pretty sure it was used in some other episodes but I'm not gonna check twice.
When i first saw the clips of dragons with hair flying around attacking the lighthouse i thought opaline some how got magic to turn ponies into dragons. The fact that they just have hair now is really baffling to me
I dropped the series aftter Sparky was "kidnapped" and hidden in the basement of the brighthouse. And the actual, no joke, solution the gang came up with to find him was to sing in the town square and follow his voice when he would sing back to them. And somehow the laws of physics ceases to exist and this absolutely worked! And, yeah, that broke me. Everyting else I've learned via osmosis just went to show that this gen was beyong saving, and the writers absolutely did not care. :T
Let's look at the bright side: while being rushed and full of continuity errors that not even the: "But it's made for kiiids! So we can make it shitty even if it's full of kids product that are good!" can save, the plot finally moved forward, the episodes were coherent and tied togheter and Opaline got her conclusion, thou I would have wrote something more... epic let's say. Dislike her or not, Opaline was a major part of this serie and had really good moments, I think she deserved something incredible for her defeat like other major villains... I think I'm gonna write something about her getting a better defeat scene, especially after seeing how the authors treated her and made her especially stupid. I'm just sad they got so lazy (high budget or not, you can still make different models or try to make them look something more then a bunch of twins) that the dragons are literally copy and paste of the same model with no unique trait and to symbolize their "unique magic" they just lazily put cutiemarks on them and copied the ponies instead of doing something original, the world building has always been a big part of MLP after all, with all its creatures and how different they were and now it's terrible. BUT this gives us something to theorize about: if dragons started having cutiemarks, it means their new generations got something from ponies (beside the lazyness in the desings and the lack of interest and care for this project to actually make something good), so, who was the first dragon that started banging a pony and created those? Think about it: they went from different and strange-looking bipedal lizards to quadrupedal dragons with hair-like crests (much like ponies' manes) and they have cutiemarks? We need the fandom to write how the first dragon-pony came to be!😂 And to be honest... I'm interested in Allurah. It's the first time we see a creature like her in MLP and while I honestly lost faith in the writers after they made scaled ponies and called those "dragons", I want to hope that they can still create something new and unique with this winged snow leopard and her powers how she came to be and what kind of villains she'll turn out to be.
Honestly I think chapter 6 was the best one in the whole series. The plot moved forward and that’s a big accomplishment for this show. Everything was very rushed but it was by far the best we’ve seen from make your mark. Although Spike is still a punching bag and Allurah was an unneeded ( and extremely ugly ) villain
Fair yes, despite how much a mess this chapter was, given how short it was, every episode actually was coherently tied together in a single story compared to the previous ones in which nothing has any weight
i have a theory that the dragons from the isle of scaly are a different breed of dragons, maybe the og dragon island is still there, somewhere else. Maybe the isle of scaly was found by equestria post season 9. Maybe spike was sent there to protect the new dragon land because they are more magical. It makes kinda sense seeing how different spike's design is from the rest of the dragons. That could explain a few things.
This doesn't sit well with me; I find it unappealing regardless. I miss the charm of the previous My Little Pony iteration, or at the very least, incorporating elements of the old style. This current rendition feels catered solely to a younger audience or a niche group of pony enthusiasts, in my personal opinion.
Given Make Your Marks unknown future (aka if it will return for more episodes) it's really hilarious how they used the potential final outing to set up a brand new villain only for them to possibly never conclude that storyline. Like sure Allura will still appear in Tell Your Tale but i really doubt they will actually progess the story.
From the few TYT episodes it might be possible they'll conclude it there or they might do an Avatar and have each season be a book with "Chapters" aka more batch releases which is shown to not be successful as evidence by Jojo part 6
Yeah. Many 3d shows and reboots nowadays have bad writing. I have experience. (Especially with Morphle Disney adaptation. Morphle before the 3d era was solid! The japanese dub is pretty good)
Opaline and Starlight may share some similarities by stealing cutie marks but at least their defeats were different and Opaline wasn’t redeemed like 5/10 (Not including Grogar/Discord) of major G4 season premiere/finale and movie villains have been redeemed and hell I’ll even add Garble, Neighsay, Ahuizotl and Cabelleron because their redemptions were so bad….
Ahuizotl's COULD have worked if he wasn't presented as an evil tyrant from his first appearance onward. No redeeming qualities, ever, until season 9. Honestly, Neighsay's worked. It was a good example of "Enemy of my enemy" and he learned to get over his prejudice and change. Seasons 8 and 9 had a fair amount of bad character writing / character undevelopment in general. There was plenty of good episodes but a good amount of bad ones.
@@theAstarrr honestly, I have a theory about the last part I think the school itself and the added workload made the mane six more hostile And that’s why the characterizing got worse in season 8
@@Mirthful_Panda overall starting with her debut in s5 (the finale added more light to her actions in the premiere) , and she has one of the strongest character developments in the series, paired with probably the best execution of a villain reformation (and yes this includes her backstory that most people don't understand the full depth of)
as someone who completely avoided this reboot from the moment that movie came out i am absolutely DUMBFOUNDED. like, did twighlight canonically turn evil or something? did i miss something from the last season of mlp cuz i havent seen it? why does spike look so horrible? I AM SO ENDLESSLY CONFUSED WHAT IS GOING ON
In my opinion, the quality of graphics and designs dropped even further in the MLP era. I remember how people were outraged by the designs of older MLPs.Spike the dragon looked so weird or twilight she had a weird design too I think the people behind the projects simply left them
To me the best kind of villain is the kind of villain who just *IS* a threat. They dont need a song or fanfare, their mere presence and ideology alone are enough of a indication, intimidating, but not unreasonable. And in opals defense, a unredeemable villain isnt bad writting, if anything it often serves to make them even MORE of a threat in many cases! That being said, Opal absolutely turned me off, I do not like her.
G5 feels so dumbed down, I couldn't stand watching the first 2 episodes. I loved the movie but the shit continuity and the art/story feeling so pre-k, I just dropped it. I can still enjoy G4 even as an adult now but this one makes me lose brain cells
this franchise devolved back to a generic little kids' cartoon that doesn't care about plot or making sense and talks down to the kids watching it. So basically its just like all the bad kids movies like Witchmas, where there are constant inconsistencies and zero re-reads of the script or observation of past events.
the new ponies and villain are just flat out the crystal empire and king sombra and opaline was giving walmart starlight vibes before she was reformed and without the cool time travel 😭😭
It's just a cash grab series, just so they can create more ponies to make merchandise out of. If they would have made a proper series it could have been popular with old fans as well and make more cash from selling toys to adults as well 😅. It's hard to stick to lore I guess, and make decent storyline, because they failed miserably.
Spike’s voice is just not it, and the dragon designs are kinda lame. And even for a kid show they could have cared for it a lot more than this. G5 I’ve found it not worth rewatching. Meanwhile Bluey is a classic.
@@lightninggear0131they completely changed spike from his final G4 design and the others have the same body type. In G4 we had diverse body types for the dragons
@@lightninggear0131 the point isn’t about weather he looks better or not it’s the fact they changed it. They already gave him an adult design and G5 continues from G4. What’s their explanation for the drastic change in spikes design because saying he “grew up” feels lazy
Once again, I want to thank you all so much for your support through this G5 journey! It has been 2 years building up to this point, and while I have enjoyed reviewing Make Your Mark, I believe it is time for me to focus on some videos that are actually about something I liked.
Speaking of which, anyone here know if the cider in MLP is alcoholic? 👀 ua-cam.com/video/oA_xNHXNCt0/v-deo.html
That’s what I said his voice was so deep I also didn’t like how sunny defeated opline so quick without her friends what happened to cutie mark magic they need help
I was waiting this whole time for Opaline had secretly actually started caring for Misty. My headcanon dashed. 😢
I wish you would stop making these videos
You’re a great content creator mate 👍 love your enthusiasm
Sounds good man, that’s if MYM is over, it is, isn’t it?
I feel so bad for the people who made the G5 movie. While the final product was flawed, it was clear that the people behind it were trying their best to set up a new generation of mlp. Writers of MYM did not even try to make anything more than a safe kids' cartoon. What a waste of potential and a stain on G4's legacy.
literally
the movie was about as good as it can get with some reasonable flaws. the voice acting was good, it wasn’t too baby-ish.. but this?? i literally can’t force myself to watch more of it and i’ve seen less than one season
Really I loved it. Past 3 chapters have been fun.
@@airbornemelody6156 Yeah G4 and the G5 movie didn't talk down to its audience
MYM and TYT really do that a ton and it shows
which is a shame G5 had potential and there are so many good moments in there but they don't focus on those moments or flesh them out
Also the movie was far away from everything G4 built up. G5 movie showed exactly in which direction it will go… nothing comparable
@@ImmaLittlePip Tell Your Tale in a nut shell. A show designed for little kids to laugh and watch the colorful ponies run around on screen.
I'm devastated by the fact that Twilight and the others couldn't deal with the opaline,
After all, THEY fought against more powerful enemies, such as Lord Tirek
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besides, alicorns are really snobbish creatures, instead of locking opaline in a dungeon, they preferred to get rid of the problem by throwing her out of their wonderful land, |
Ssso equestria,
Nnow it's your problem.
Twilight could have easily toke her down, same buddy same.
@@poumybeloved that's exactly what I think, a tiny pony without any magic Cozy Glow is many times more powerful than her.
Yes finally!!! Someone said it!Like-twilight and her friends fought villains that are a hundred times more powerful than opaline, and they defeated them with the "magic of friendship thing"
Tyrek, Tempest, Storm King, That one pink kid from season nine, Queen Chryssalis, so many magic stealing characters theyve fought.
Why the hell was she banished to begin with? She wasn't a threat.
Chapter 1: will there be continuity between G5 and G4?
Chapter 4: There isn't even continuity between Make Your Mark and Tell Your Tale
Chapter 6: There isn't even continuity between two scenes in the same episode.
HAHA i love this comment 😂
5G is Family Guy.
Ironically, there is continuity between this and G1. That was the Rainbow of Light Locket. But I expect they're never going to use it again...
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Why do the dragons just look like ponies with horns and wings
Laziness
To cut costs and also merchandise
They're also all so ugly... Why is everyone coloured like a neon sign? IF i had gotten a toy like that as a kid I would have hung it for being ugly lol
The dragon's face look like monkey
Yeah, i look at the dragon i thought the leg it was broken
G1-cool
G2-Toys
G3-hmm
G4-it was perfect,perfect
G5-
G5-I just lost another braincell
THIS 😭
I think G3 had the highest quality merch
It's the biggest piece of dogshi-
G5-Meh
G5 has got to be nothing more than a fever dream after Twilight ate too many hayburgers. There is no way to piece together the cannon to G4, especially when entire species no longer look as they once did, and things don't even function the same way anymore.
Yeah ikr the magic which the unicorn do is soo lame in g5 while in g4 it was soo powerful
It *can* work...
You just have to assume the crystals are mind controlling everyone to make them dumb to shift things in the way Twi wants
And also the crystals, while sapient, are completely insane due to being separated for too long
And also the crystals themselves are casting magic instead of the ponies
And also Opaline herself was under the mind control of the crystals this whole time
And also Twilight did EXTENSIVE genetic modification of multiple species for no good reason
And also the Island of Scaly isn't the dragon lands, but developed its own tradition of dragon lord because ???
...It *can* work, but you need to take massive leaps to give the show any credit.
@@alyarin9000🤪😵😅🤣😂
Not true
My advice just look at this as an alternative timeline and not the true timeline of the future
How did Opaline ever become a severe threat if she was this incompetent?! Seriously!!! How did she become a threat if she was that stupid?!
That's easy...bad writing!
I agreed they reformed Misty too early and she had powerful necklace which could have been useful if Misty took control of it.
Because everypony else was just as stupid if not more.
@@hollycat6654 Yeah maybe Celestia leaving equestria to a pony prone to anxiety and panic attacks wasn't the best option especially with how she handles moving the sun and moon which has yet to be explained why the world can function normally
Luck or twillight was tired of the races constant fighting argue so she had enough Made drastic messure
*Sees Spike's design and hear's his voice*
"Look at how they massacred my boy!"
I'm sorry but it is what it is
He should’ve sounded like a Protein Junkie
Yea don’t worry after a few drinks I am feeling better now! They must have gotten ahold of some bad weed or something…. To make me look and sound like this is just a huge F-you to my legacy.
After the way this series butchered Twilight, it was only natural that her #1 assistant/adopted son/surrogate little brother would get the same treatment.
What’s wrong with the voice though?
The part of G5 that i dislike the most is the lack of caring for the rest of the mane 6 that aren't twilight, like, it's *THE MANE 6* , not TWILIGHT & her friends, is it that difficult to say "rainbow dash was one of the most legendary flyers to ever exits" or "rarity was the most glamorous unicorn ever" or even "fluttershy was kind"
My biggest gripe is they never answer WHAT HAPPENED to all the other alicorns! Opaline is so incredibly incompetent as a villain; where are Twi, Flurry Heart, and Cadence? Why is Opaline still around and the others have vanished? I thought Spike would fill us in but nope, just more confusing and sloppy world building (if you can call it that).
Considering it was Twilight who got rid of the magic, and she and the other princess are literally charged up magical batteries, she had to have put herself and the other princesses in some kind of deep slumber like the dragons. Or maybe they all went to the human world and hid there, who knows. She has options though, like a lot of options. I'm going to guess that she is in a pocket dimension like the original elements of harmony, and at some point in the next chapter or so, she is going to be released. Along with discord and the princesses.
@@demonheart13 that would likely make the fandom angrier ngl, a LOT of people are hating on the fact that it's connected to G4, In a very.. VERY.. poor manner.
And now it seems Spike is gonna be living without being able to remember his past since he has amnesia(as in he can't remember everything) due to the stupid sleep spell Twilight did to him.
And most likely its not gonna be fixed ever.
To me, it just doesn't make sense that if Opaline was supposedly was around when Celestia and Luna were FILLIES, and Spike has come back to be the new dragon lord, shouldn't Twilight be alive? And also what about Cadence, Flurry Heart and Discord? As well as Celestia and Luna? It was proven in Gen 4 that all of them were immortal. And what about the Windigos? Shouldn't they have come back when every pony rase was fighting and hating on each other? It just doesn't make sense... So many unanswered questions!
Actually the comics give info on what happened to discord, and the comic had better writing.
Basically the characters visit the ruins of Canterlot and after falling down a trap door, they meet an old discord, and he stole the crystal out of fear of magic returning and causing more problems
@@chewee4ever811he wasn’t old btw, he was just unkept and messy because he hasn’t been taking care of himself due to his sadness about fluttershy.
Also! The Windigoes need long term anger between two or more races in order to feed, without something like decades or centuries then they are unable to reform
That's why they were never able to appear
As for the Alicorns? Maybe Skyros or something? Idk
I don't exactly know if it was proven in _G4_ that they were immortal, if anything G5 proved it with Opaline (or maybe she's been trapped in a place like limbo for centuries) but I could be missing something there.
But it would be weird if all of the older alicorns were directly killed, travelled somewhere else, or trapped somewhere?? If they are immortal and didn't just die naturally, I mean.
@@eglol They seem to be semi-immortal, they are immune to aging but are still killable and are susceptible to extremely potent and infectious diseases or afflictions
The whole disappearance of them entirely is something I cannot really explain aside from massive plot hole
They’re mocking, twilights intelligence in the show severely
It’s so offensive honestly they did twilight and her friends really dirty in this show
I definitely feel like twilight would’ve come up with a a much better solution
But they need to dump twilight down in order to make this stupid show happen
But I promise you twilight would’ve found a way to defeat her or put her away somewhere
A marry sue is a character in which the plot changes and morphs around to suit them....just saying the writtings on the wall.
That's what g5 feels like....fanfiction.
poor twilight she’s my fave and never gets the respect she deserves
Ikr? You’re telling me Twilight was able to defeat a very powerful centaur, changeling queen, and Alicorn all at once (on top of Windigos), but couldn’t defeat the most pathetic Alicorn or just villain I’ve ever seen in MLP? Whoever wrote that part of G5 in particular deserves to never be involved with writing or visual media ever again.
@@sweetdreams1028 apparently Hasbro lost the rights to some of the g4 seasons if what people tell me are right this would explain the errors.
What it doesn't explain is why they continue to cling to g4s relevance if they can't even do it right.
@@gamingonamonday6342 exactly. Also, there are many MLP fanfics out there that are really good, G5 is more like a bad fanfic. The good fanfics you can tell are someone who cares about the world and or characters of G4 and wanted to tell a good story with them for valid reasons, whereas bad ones are just ones where they just wanted to tell a story connected to G4 without thinking anything about what they’re writing. Plus, at least fanfics are ignorable, whereas G5 is confirmed to be in the same universe as G4. Though at this point, it’s my head canon that G5 is just Lil Cheese playing with some toys of the mane six and random figures who are the characters in G5 and was just making a crazy story with them just for fun.
I think G4 was made originally with some genuine love for the property. That's why it was so good. G5 was just made as a cash grab to ride the coattails of G4's success.
Definitely. the creator of g4 actually cared about mlp and the initial success brought in talent.
G5 was made to bridge the gap between the two. It is clear they were seemingly moving away from G4 lore towards the end. Thge issue is Hasbro and losing control over their own Ip... AGAIN! So because of all the legal bullshit Make your Mark suffered as a result. It also Hasbro literally knee capping it from the start by pulling Boulder Media off the production of the show itself.
No. G1 was the first iteration of MLP. It kicked off the property and let's be honest, every generation has been made to sell toys. It feels like Lauren Faust produced a good show due to her love of the original generations. She put heart into it. There was a long time in between G3 and G4.
But G4 was just a big a mess as G5 is.
@@baffledbrandon3132 Agreed. Especially towards the end it was clear they were just roping things together to close open ends. Even through a lot of it didnt make a lot of sense.
Why does the main villain look like someone's first OC? The colors are SO obtrusive and hurt my eyes.
i actually agree because that color scheme terrify me 😭
fr looks like something i drew when i was 5
Her hair looking like toothpaste
This show could've worked if it had no connections to FIM whatsoever.
Like, as a spinoff, kind of?
Yeah, like how the earlier MLP cartoons over the decades were separate from FIM.
I’m not sure if it would have worked but it would have been more believable
fr
Funny how G4's shoes were too big for G5 to fill and it would've been easier to judge it less harshly were it set in an isolated universe.
Really I loved it. Past 3 chapters mym has been fun. G4 is over let it go.
@@shangothunder1055 You already said that.
@@shangothunder1055 If you were correct you'd only need to reply once, or hell, make your own comment once. But you're grasping at straws.
@@kneelessnightcat9164 Sure dude If you can’t handle my opinion get lost this ain’t the place for you sensitive types.
@@shangothunder1055it's hard to let it go when g5 is literally connected to g4🙄
Not only do the dragons have ‘cutie marks’ but Sparky himself was born with wings, even though we saw through Spike that dragons get their wings at a later stage as they moult.
I mean that could be excused with the fact it's been hundreds of years. And that maybe evolution or magic changed it.
The other things like how the older dragons look however, doesn't make sense
@@Its_Asteria not to mention all the dragons are shown as quadrupeds including Spike who was born bipedal like Sparky is - are we to assume Sparky will become four legged as an adult too? 🤷♀️
@@sparxstreak02 I mean adult dragons in g4 were quadrupeds too
I’m pretty sure most dragons were born with wings and that spike only gained them because as Zechora states the molt comes with little surprises. And that Spike gaining wings was his surprise implying that the molt leads to different developmental anomalies for some dragons.
@@hankjason Problem is that is due to greed-growth and even then, their looks in Gen 5 really looks like that DE-EVOLVED.
At least Spike being a quadruped makes sense as we saw older dragons eventually shift to a quadruped stance.
Yeah but they were huge and looked like actual dragons, the dragons from make your mark look more like ponies if anything
@@Emi_Lorefr it's like they mixes the ponies and dragons
@@GiyuuTomioka12344 If what you say is true, that can only mean one thing
@@MusSupremeJAR03🎠🐉🥒🍑😍😍
@@GiyuuTomioka12344maybe their hybrids idk
WHY DID IT ALL JUST KEPT GETTING WORSE AND WORSE😭😭
I’m just gonna say that this is probably an alternate universe years in the future instead of JUST thousands of years in the future
Agreed
I will say, G5 has a lot of great potential when the movie dropped, but after watching the entire of Make Your Mark, it’s just sad that all of the great concepts go to waste. There are a few good moments that makes it enjoyable, but everything else is just a mess. Man, what a wild ride.
My thoughts exactly, the movie made it seem like this could be promising, but then the show dropped…some of the characters don’t even feel like the ones in the movie.. :/ oh well
I agree with you. I only enjoyed make your mark chapter 2.
I think The series is Great at least
@@blaizegottman4139 Yeah when Misty was fun villain and had powerful necklace.
@@seantaggart7382 and Why's that? I liked old Misty because it was best thing when she was try to be evil and better hair design.
So apparently why dragons have cutie marks according to the wiki “Each dragon has special dragonfire magic with different abilities. Currently we know that Spike has teleportation magic, Sparky has transformation magic, Tumble has wind magic, Luxxe has light magic and Fountain has water magic. What types of dragon magic other dragons have, like Blaize, Leaf, Jade, or Lava is currently unknown.” So like Elemental Dragons….?
Wait so if dragons' "cutie marks" are related to their type of magic, then why doesn't cocomelon have one? He can use his transformation magic just fine as a baby.
God, is this worldbuilding awful...
sounds like the unicorns in unicorn academy to me (a much better show on Netflix) lol
@@seantaggart7382 ??
I would assume that Leaf has nature magic, Blaize has regular fire magic, Jade has crystal magic, and Lava has, well the very obv lava/magma magic. But we didn't really get to see any of that besides the regular dragon fire all dragons typically seem to have.
@@imaginations_animations4928 yeah I’m actually kind of interested to see if they’re going to address the elemental part of the dragons
G5 is like an overdrawn G4 fanfic at this point. The show takes wayyy too far ahead in the future for them to be able to add stuff and for it still to be connected to G4.
They could have done it and make it work, but they were probably too lazy for that. In that case, it may have been better to make two cmpletly different univers, if they were too lazy to make it coherent..
@@aaazzz8324 that’s what I’m saying
And just to ezz the pain of this is Shell being connected to G4. I’m just gonna go on a whim and say that the finale of season five when the time travel scroll got stuck in time and we don’t know where it ended up I have a theory that it ended up in a another time line of the show and went into the alternate timeline that became this disgrace so that way it’s not connected to G4. It’s just a weird alternative timeline and
So we don’t all Keep G4 as as its own thing
There are G4 fanfics out there that are a billion times better than MYM
And I'm worried that it isn't far _enough_ in the future for it to make sense that magic and the creatures has evolved this much.
@@eglol sadly, that’s the case. Because in Chapter Five, Elder Flower mentions it’s been around five generations since G4. AKA, only around a hundred to two hundred years.
They literally had the young six from g4 who they could’ve used to make a perfectly good sequel series.
But nooooooo
They had to make *this*
Would be WAY too much work making distinct and diferent characters. Gotta take the easy copy paste.
To be fair, thatd be better as a spin off, since it wont be their yknow, trade mark my little PONY, but yeah they felt underdeveloped and late in mlp FIM, i think they coulda start with twilights pupil to continue tbh
I think the ideal idea would be to make a spinoff about some state on another continent, in which there is discord, racism, all that, but one day the main character (or main characters) learns about Equestria, about how great the M6 have set up life there. From this moment on, the main characters of the new show would try to do the same in their country, devoured by contradictions and conflicts. Something like the River Union from Equestria at war, but more peaceful so that everything would be family friendly.
Young 6 spinoff would've been so gooood, plus it would fix the g4 writers' horrible mistake of not giving any individual episode screentime to the students in the last two seasons
@@chels8302The only problem with making twilight's pupil The new main character in G5 is that It's hinted that The cycle just continues. She goes to ponyville, makes a group of new friends, defeats a villain with them, they become the new elements, ect. I do still have a lot of unanswered questions about the past though.
The reason the continuity of the G5 is screwed is because Hasbro, in all their infinite wisdom, not only sold the broadcasting rights to seasons 5-9 to Discovery, but also the rights to a ton of elements and characters to G4 and still don't have them back. Which is why all of the G4 connections to G5 don't make a helluva lotta sense.
Hasbro is a plague on creative media at this point
I remember being cautiously optimistic at start of g5, then the movie made me really hopeful, the special made me bqck to cautious, and then the series made me slowly lose braincells
Just move on from MLP. Stop supporting it. Stop supporting Hasbro. Can some people do it?
@@AxsorXIlet people do what they want.
@@AxsorXIjust move on from telling people they should move on, bro 😂
@@AxsorXINope; Really I loved it mostly. Past 3 chapters have been fun. G4 is over let it go.
@@AxsorXI I mean, most bronies do not support hasbro and that's kind of the problem, because they just don't make up a significant market, just enough to be acknowledged. If more of them coughed out money then there would be more of a focus on them because hasbro is a corperation and they do run on money and the desire for money.
You wanna know why, despite Opaline getting all the Cutie Marks, I wasn't worried?
Not because of the obvious fact the good guys would win... but because nopony had any negative reaction to losing their mark other than fear or sadness.
In season 5, it was made quite clear, when Starlight was removing Cutie Marks, it HURT!
Twilight and the Mane 6 seemed to be genuinely in either pain or severe discomfort as their Marks were being removed.
Yet, in G5, it's not even a problem. They come off as easily and painlessly as a water tattoo.
As for the locket part? I thought this show took place in the same universe as G4, not G1!
You can't have it both ways, Make Your Mark. Pick an MLP generation you want to bastardize and stick with it!
Hay, there's been more coherent references to G1 than G4 throughout all of Make Your Mark, so why didn't they just stick with being in the same universe as G1?
I'd actually think that would add way more depth and meaning to the show than being connected to G4 has been.
As for Secrets of Starlight, I'm even more underwhelmed than I thought I'd be, and that's saying something.
Is it supposed to be the new version of the Crystal Empire?
Logically, doubt it. Nothing looks even close aside from being near snow and the crystal ascetic of the horns... not to mention it would make NO SENSE that the future version of the Crystal Empire is in another world that needs a portal to get there!
Then again, the Dragon Lands weren't a separate island nor lush with tropical vegetation in G4, so why should I be the least bit surprised if G5 decided to completely alter everything about the Crystal Empire too?
Ember's absence and not being the Dragon Lord is a HUGE plot hole as, unless Opaline killed Ember before Twilight sent Spike to go with the dragons, it makes no sense why Spike is the Dragon Lord and was even before Twilight’s somehow Dumber than we originally thought possible plan was put into motion.
At least G5 proper isn't making Discord an old fart who CAN use magic, but isn't doing anything with it, like, I dunno, PUNISH Opaline for ruining everything he'd have held dear!
I'm incredibly inclined to write a story specifically for the purpose of de-legitimizing G5 out of spite. Like how Running with Scissors retconned Postal 3 and turned it into a running gag, when Rick killed the Space Jam 2 counterparts of him and Morty and also how Avengers #200 was undone.
Were you intentionally referring to the comics in the last part?
@@troin3925 Eeyup
I think taking the cutie marks away wasn’t painful because when starlight used to do that, she cast a spell on a staff but opaline used a totally different spell, which is more painless and easier since if posey actually screamed in pain, the chapter would have ended in chapter 5
@@baeldaikokuten_yj6792 what they meant by is that Starlight removing The Mane Six’s cutie marks more negatively effected them. Like, Pinkie losing her spirit, Applejack losing her strength and talent of countryisms, or Fluttershy no longer being able to understand animals or communicate with them.
The heart locket is a call back to Gen 1 ponies from the 80s. From a human girl named Megan. She always helping the ponies from danger in the pony world.
I recognized it imminently i use to watch it when i was a child. xD
I recognized it immediately even though I never watched gen 1
@@pemanilnoobsame
When I saw the locket open, I was like “is that the first time the Rainbow of Light has been referenced in the G4-G5 continuity outside of just rainbow lasers?”
And then I remembered, nope, the Generations comic beat them to it
I watched G1 as a child long time ago, but i totally forgot about the heart locket, until someone mentioned the locket Sunny got looked like this one from G1. I think it was a nice reference to G1 that they brought the magic rainbow in G5, if only it they didn’t just use it as a « because magic happens » thing
The sad thing is I wonder if they even knew or if they literally just went "lol heart locket with rainbows the girls will love this" because of how everything else is, I feel it's the latter even though I really want to believe it's a reference/call back.
@@marshmallowbiscuit4553well. Since it really look like the one in G1, I believe its really a reference to that, but they could have done it for both those reasons at the same time.
how did spike go from a buff dragon that helped twilight rule, to a weird lizard dude
I seriously thought when i saw the dragons had hair and cutie marks my firt thought was "Which pony did it with a dragon?!"
Maybe that’s what happened to em
There is no way in he'll they made spike looklike a deformed kangaroo that breeder with a alligator and a toad.
This is the greatest description of G5 Spike I have ever heard!
I wish we could've had a break from villains after Opaline's defeat. I was like, "Oh come on! We just lost Opaline!"
My thoughts exactly. They finally defeat Ovaltine...I mean Opaline...and they get saddled with another villain just minutes later.
@@BobHershey this was the face I made: 😩
@@alexhart9267 I would need both a facepalm and an eyeroll emoji for my reaction.
@@BobHershey I got ya. 🙄🤦
Yes!! I thought Allura was gonna be a one time episode villain, but she ended up being once again, a whole season villain. Allura just had a vibe of being a one time villain, maybe disappear and then be back 3 seasons later? Just like what g4 does. But Allura just didn't feel like a whole season villain don't you think? She just felt plain.
Fun fact: The creators got so lazy that they didn't even translate Opaline's Song from the first Episode of chapter 6 into german😂😒
I've seen comment that says they didn't translate any songs in Polish dub, until suddenly the last chapter. I didn't watch it, because I prefer my ponies in English, with original voices. But why would you even do that? If you're too lazy to translate songs for the most part, at least stick to it. xD
I don't think it's laziness on the part of the creators, because they are not responsible for translating the series to other languages. People working on Polish and German dub probably didn't get enough time or budget to do a decent dubbing.
Also, I'm from Poland and I don't think g5 is popular here (g5 toys don't sell at all and usually go on huge discounts after a while) so maybe translating the songs wasn't profitable because the series wasn't much of a success anyway.
@@najpotenicewolf934All MYM songs were translated to polish (At least up to chapter 5). TYT songs were only translated if they were sang by characters, while the one in the background just got subtitles.
Lmao, same in french. Actually, none of the songs are translated in this chapter, and every time the character are about to sing, they felt the need to make the character announce « im going to sing in english now! ». I find it kind of weird, they could have just sang without announcing they were switching language. I always find it weird when a real life language is directly mentioned in a fantasy world show.
@@aaazzz8324 I just checked some clips for the Polish dub of g5 and the characters in this version also say something like "sing in English!" before they sing. If I had to guess, they did it so that the children wouldn't be confused as to why they can't understand what the characters sing.
9:04
''Shes been going around, taking cutie marks, and no one knew about it''
Jeez I wonder what that inspiration came from..Ahem ahem, STARLIGHT GLIMMER- ahem..
There was potential.Was.
Kind of saddening thst FiM's world ended up like this
Fun Fact: the Heart necklace around Sunny’s neck is the Rainbow of Light locket from G1 the OG Element of Harmony what the hell….?❤
(I never watched G1 since I was born in the early 2000s but I just noticed from other reviewers)
That is honestly so cheap, very cheap move
When Misty was "transported" by a mysterious fog from the inside of the Wishing Tree of Briddlewood [the "Night Market" of the Breezies] to an open area with Breezie Homes, she was in the G1 Pony World (alternate reality).
The Breezie that gifted the Heart Locket with the Rainbow of Light came from that same world.
To sum up: Chapter 6 looks like somebody tried to put out forest fire with a screwdriver
Lol I love this description 🤣
IDK. The reason Opaline works for me is that there are so many people like her in real life. She builds herself uo to be important and powerful but she's really not all that and seeing past that illusion is a huge process for a lot of people.
G4 already did that with Chrysalis when the hive finally decided to stand up to her and choose their own path; Opaline did have a unique thing going with the abusive relationship with Misty which was good, but Opaline herself was ruined due to TYT toning down this relationship to implying they actually do work together so there's no consistency
@@6-dpegasus425 That's mostly due to different writers if I'm not mistaken. They likely need to downsize the writing team and have more leadership there.
-- Also, opaline is great because she is such an unabashed villain. she is like the emperor from old star wars -- she's evil, and she loves it. you gotta respect that.
@PerpetualityHypnosis I do fully like that they made Opaline entirely unsympathetic and grounded as
A villain that can't be reformed, I just wish they kept her consistent, but that's just thr consequence of whoever decided to make TYT and then make Opaline a goofball
Unfortunately, the writing team had intended for Opaline to be this end-all be-all Series Antagonist: all without understanding the fundamentals of what makes a Series Antagonist in the first place. They failed to try setting up any sort of emotional connection or weight to the character whenever we see her on-screen, let alone have her serve as a drive for Sunny to defeat because of how personal it is for her. If the story had went that Opaline had killed Argyle; than it'd be motivation enough for Sunny to want to go and fight her to avenge her father.
'If you need an emotional connection to be based on violence to cause drama between characters. ... you might be watching the wrong show for you.' @@0hvist Isn't the whole point of sunny that she is.... NOT like that? This is a girls cartoon, that idea of "violence" why does it need to be violent like that? killing her father? needing revenge? having to right wrongs to be a princess? is this fricken JoJo's ? this isn't some epic anime, it's a girls cartoon, that doesn't fit *at all* with the theme.
Opaline was never a villain to sunny, and Sunny is not Twilight Sparkle. If anything, Misty is following in hoofsteps of Twilight more than sunny is. Twilight was kind of an irredeemably mean pony at the start of MLP and grew to become the princess of friendship. Misty might look like she has more similarness to Sunset or Starlight, but both of them had good reasons for being the way they were, Twilight and Misty just didn't have exposure to stuff. Sunny doesn't have a reason to be the be all end all main character. I enjoy that they don't do this with her because she doesn't need to be and it'd destroy what g5 is if she was. If you need an emotional connection to be based on violence to cause drama between characters. ... you might be watching the wrong show for you.
The dragons are just- HUGHHHHHH,they did spike dirty😭
Opalline is basically Fizzlepop Berrytwist just worse at it.
dont diss my queen fizzlepop berrytwist like that! Her main color was just stolen and then covered in a toothpaste blob of a mane for some reason
This chapter if what finally got me to scream “OKAY THATS IT! IM MAKING A REWRITE OF THIS THING!”
Now the process of rewriting this story and character redesigns has started lol
Please 🙏
I bet you'll write a much better story than this UA-cam kids soulless crashcab
Better than that, you should actually make your own show!
@Calypsolion
I’m also making a rewrite of all of G5. If you have a discord account, we can share each other’s ideas
Like seriously everyone wanting to rewrite this series is so damn lazy.
A derivative work isn’t going to save the series and will just be forgotten in the long run. There is also the risk of Hasbro sending a cease and desist order to that project.
Want to actually make a difference?
MAKE YOUR OWN ORIGINAL SHOW!
Make something new that will compete with the MLP franchise as a whole.
Because this whole time I was doing just that!
I’m writing ideas for my own shows in notebooks and I will write them better than MLP could ever be so that they could replace MLP in popularity in the future.
Wish me luck!
I'm actually doing the same for a school project!!
I'm afraid that what kills the show for me as a Grown adult is the Animations. I have worked on film sets (as a sound engineer). I have worked on animated projects and always found the process cool. But as someone who enjoyed G4 up until Series 5, I quickly understood just how childish and "low budget" a CGI remake can be.
The problem here is the demographic, the show isn't trying to pander to us Bronies or even parents. Its a show for young children that has no problem spelling it out at every turn. The animation is the worst part because these creatures all have rapid movements , weightless flying and battles that feel like the characters are trying to not hit each other.
Unlike what I just said, this technique can work for TV shows. Take "Thunderbirds Are Go" From 2015. A remke of a beloved 1965 TV show that managed to be somewhat respectful to the source material (I don't like Thunderbirds 2015 but that's just me). Thunderbirds however was boosted not just by the fact that the characters and craft are CGI in a scale model world, but the action is directed in a way that allows the characters to "look" like they have weight.
G4 had the privilege of being 2D with characters that were kind and caring, not sounding too weird when they spoke. I for one, found that the characters in G4 spoke like us. They were like us. Not children, not fools and the villains were actually characters that could spout out one liners without any real problems. G4 has its problems too, but nothing as sould crushing as G5 (Shame because I enjoyed the Movie).
Just move on from MLP. Currently it is a worthless franchise. Stop supporting it. Stop supporting Hasbro. Can some people do it? Gosh! I don't even care about MLP G5. For me Hasbro can keep to ruin its IP, but I'm sorry for Lauren Faust. She knew how to draw a dragon. Instead those animators of this animated series can't even draw dragons with a good design. Talk about incompetence. That's it.
@@AxsorXI I am sorry to say that I will not give up on the show. I will not watch it, unless I'm bored, but otherwise I will not wish for them to cancel their show that is obviously not aimed for me.
I don't think I'll ever let go of the fandom either, but I know full well that I cannot continue to watch this show in a critical light because of how it treats the show as kids, not a family show.
@@AxsorXI You keep spamming this message on every comment section
Honestly think you're not a fan of MLP and just want people to stop being bronies because you don't like it
@@ImmaLittlePip For your information I used to like MLP:FIM when it was a decent animated show for families during its first seasons. I don't like Hasbro and bronies because they ruined the original vision of the franchise by Lauren Faust.
Monty Python would like a word with you.
G5 had a LOT of potential and they never reached it a little bit. It's really sad and I don't think I'm the only one who don't think this is canon at all. I still enjoyed the episode a bit and your videos about it. I didn't expected anything from the show after the first chapter and my expectations were made.
Actually they did. Really I loved it. Past 3 chapters have been fun. G4 is over let it go.
I agree. G5 has disappointed me :( Which is a shame cause I enjoyed the movie (but I didn't like everything about it, didn't feel right that it was set in the G4 universe)
@@dove2826 The G4 is limited to fan service & cameos and is overall irrelevant to the actual story.
@@shangothunder1055 Please explain how
@@shangothunder1055It was so boring
what i feel is the worst part is the existence of continuity aka existence of twilight and spike and other alicorns. then the lack of continuity of anyone who doesn't have wings can't walk on the clouds, where is ember, how did dragons get cutie marks, and what is going on.
G5 could have taken such a different approach like the school of magic??? Or even the next generation of ponies??? Twilights heir? The children of the mane six? Rarity’s fashion industry??? Idk there are so many different options that could have been done and honestly this doesn’t even seem like MLP it’s like a knock off that tried to be MLP but copyright infringement. It’s very goofy and not good.
You know whats sad
G5 had so much potential but being tied to G4 was always going to hurt it from shining on its own
The movie was so good I remember how much that movie sparked new life into the fandom that we hadn't seen since the mid 2010s and when G4 was ending
But man as the show went on (Batch releases didn't help) more and more just stop caring, heck TYT no one cares about that show anymore when a new episode releases especially since the new episodes spoiled a ton of Chapter 6
One best way to describe this show is squandered potential that was shadowed over its much more successful generation
Its a real shame. Chapter 5 and the latter half of chapter 4 was when the show was finally finding its footing. there was hope that the shows writing was improving but chapter 6 it goes out with a whimper
ITs obvious that the next G5 cgi show is going to be called something new and each season is going to be treated like a book with "chapters" (Man I miss weekly releases it built up so much hype in the fandom)
Some people should move on from MLP. Currently this franchise is worthless because of Hasbro.
Really I loved it. Past 3 chapters have been fun. G4 is over let it go.
@@shangothunder1055 What are you talking about? I enjoy G5 and gave it props but sadly its true its going to be in G4's shadow due to it not only coming after it but also being a SEQUEL to it so its going to be compared since its the same universe
I'm still gonna enjoy MLP G4, I'm just gonna pretend G5 doesn't exist, plus atleast the fandom is keeping G4 alive with fanfiction and comics.
@@DarkSnowGaming1 Still the fandom is keeping to ruin G4 with fanfiction and comics.
Secrets of Starlight.
Do you mean they're going to find something left behind by Starlight Glimmer that gives us an insight into what happened?
No, of course not.
I thought my FAVOURITE CHARACTER was coming back :(
@@gfallsfanz673same :( like an alicorn or something….
I love how TYT spoiled this chapter by cramming 2 whole 20min episodes into 5min. 😂 but then 68 happened. It spoils ch7 and I had no idea what I was looking at for 5 whole minutes. I am only thankful there was no 69 yesterday. Good job HasBros. 🤔
What is tyt
@@blaizegottman4139Tell your tale something else from g5
@@blaizegottman4139Tell Your Tale
@@blaizegottman4139 Tell Your Tale.
@@blaizegottman4139Tell Your Tale for short
You know it’s bad if the villan literally sings about how bad they are-
If I were to rewrite this show I’d make the first season about the ponies learning how to use their powers and building back trust and friendship between the species of ponies meanwhile after each breakthrough episode we get a peek at Opaline observing and making plans (it really bothered me how they all adapted to their magic so quickly and immediately trusted each other after one episode. Also I think Opaline would have been gathering research and all before attacking because they make it clear that so much has changed ).
Then season two we learn more about Opalines past well they start their plan to take over… that’s all I got but that’s how I expected the show to start and wished it’s what we got
At least spike does NOT have a dragon cutie mark so continuity....? yayish?
Ended up making him look kind of lame in comparsion in terms of magic dragon fire honestly.
When I first saw the "dragons" on the MLP subreddit, I thought they were pony/dragon hybrids, not pure dragons. They literally look EXACTLY like some pony/dragon hybrid OCs I have seen.
Nothing will ever be able to match the wonderful story writing and songs from MLP G4.
The locket with the rainbow is actually a call back to G1 MLP. It was called the Rainbow of Light. There was also one of Darkness. The rainbow of light was kept in a locket that Meagan (the blonde headed human girl) wore around her neck most of the time.
Spikes face actually scares me Im not even joking, this whole “g5” should be made uncannon
It will never be canon
@@DragonQueen78 Unfortunately it is
But we can still pretend it isnt! thats what I like to do, atleast
(As a fellow member of the brony fandom, I am sincerely sorry to those who actually enjoyed G5, this is my personal opinion)
there are times where something is considered as canon by the writers and that can be overridden by a general fan consensus it isn't. in this case, i think we can safely headcanon retcon this crap away since it doesn't even fit in with the lore and setting they decided to go with. its not just that it's awful, but that it also can't be canon, no matter how you try to explain how it is.
pretty much like harry potter and the cursed child. writer says its canon. everyone disagrees. the writers don't always know best.
Congrats on making this far. Like really. I don’t think most could. So, what are you gonna do after this? I would go back to the old G4 episodes myself.
Twilight and Spike were so out of character. Opaline should’ve been defeated chapters ago. I swear the animation looks worse than the previous chapters. Timeline? What that? Etc, etc, etc…
Bravo man.
Thank you very much!
I have some ideas for theory and analysis videos, but I don't want to spoil anything. ;)
I honest think that the best way to End this mess is get Opaline become GOD OF FIRE, then Reset the whole Universe, like what they did in Mortal Kombat 1.
Sorry, but I disagree with two things you said in this comment:
1) Spike wasn't out of character. He may older and quite rusty now, but he's shown to still have that playful and determined personality he had in G4.
2) The animation didn't look worse; it actually looked a little better than it did in Chapters 4 and 5. In fact, I noticed in a few closeup shots that there great details of the ponies coats.
@@jordantrainor2617 yeah the animation has improved each chapter and it's why I expect more g5 but not as 'make your mark' but a different one. tyt, mym, so like, pyp (playing your part? would fit well with what spike said to sunny.)
chapter 1 is almost unwatchable with how jerky and plastic it is versus chapter 6. I think that a lot of people are forgetting that MLP g4 season one kinda... looked really bad versus it's later seasons. The reason the animation was praised in 2010/2011 is because it was still *better* than most shows at the time. hindsight or watching it later makes g4 and g5's animation progression, honestly, in favor of g5. they learned much quicker.
@@PerpetualityHypnosis I guess the reason why the G4 is forgiven despite having bad animation, the designs and backgrounds were flashy and stylized this generation is not like that, I think it would have done better with 2D animation.
there was actually a scene in Secrets of Starlight that shocked me quite a bit, you have to pay attention, but before Allura enters the portal to Equestria, there's a sort of telepathic connection between Allura and possibly another snow leopard, who Allura says is her 'brother'. This 'brother' says to Allura "you fool! you had the star the whole time!" and Allura says back aloud "don't worry, brother. I'll get it back". I think this time round we may be facing two villians instead of one.
I think to
Yes, its gives me hope that we may have a better vilain introduced. Because lets be honest, if its was just Allura, it would have been quite disappointing. She doesn’t seem very threatening. Just an Opalin number 2.
Hopefully her brother would be the smart one out of the two
This man went completely bonkers thanks to g5 it was nice knowing him🤣
It is truly sad how Make your Mark has gone from somewhat enjoyable to What the ever loving (bleep) are they thinking. It has well and truly lost its way, and like you I have given it up to save what few shreds of sanity are still mine to keep. 0~o
Nah I'm still pissed opaline got beat by an infant who can't control his own urine.
I legit thought spikes voice was fake that’s how bad it is. I could NOT believe it 😭
WHY DOES HE SOUND LIKE MARKIPLIER?!?! I mean, I love him but WHY DID THEY MAKE HIM SOUND LIKE MARKIPLIER?!!?
I think the worst part is that we never learned how or when Opaline found Misty.
It's explained in chapter 5.
@@tanishataruvinga6057 I'm not talking about Misty being from Bridlewood and Alphabittle being her father; I'm talking about HOW and WHEN Opaline found her. It's implied in Chapter 2 but never explained.
@@TheWildcaller24 Opaline said she found her as a filly.It was probably in Bridlewood.
@@TheWildcaller24Probably found her lost in the forest
@@TheWildcaller24 Misty got lost in Bridlewood.She was probably found while she was lost,which is why Alphabittle couldn't find her for years.
Fusterclucks like this are why I hate hate HATED the decision to attach G5 to G4, even back when G5 was just one decent film. I was so fascinated by the leaked emails that showed a potential reimagining of ponies with a brand new setting entirely... but instead we got G4: The Revengeance - This Time It's Awful. Such a waste...
their biggest mistake was making this in the same universe as g4. it just doesnt work
I enjoy the show for the moment because from the first chapter I already knew all the connections that will be established with FiM will make no sense, so I'm acting like I've never seen FiM series before so it helps and doesn't disturbed the experience to appreciate all the others aspects of the show.
We clearly see the struggle the direction of G5 took because they want the continuity to work for the fans without taking the FiM universe seriously and do whatever they like.
G5 is a bad show because they don't know what they're doing and can't choose:
- If you want to continue in the FiM universe, do it properly
or
- Create a new show with a completly new universe, that's it
Sadly the writing doesn't respect his own show, the major issue is the characters being lost on their actions in so many situations, I feel like it’s getting better overall over the time but it will never fix the show and it’s impossible to go back again
Spike survived?
G5 was really written by a fan of Fallout Equestria 😂
the diference that fallout equestria is well written
@@toppatprime hrrrrmmmm
true
@@toppatprime And didn't do him so dirty.
I really thought they were going to say Izzy *was* an auroricorn too in that special because it really seemed to be setting up that way. Like how familiar she kept saying it was and the fact, oh yeah, HER HORN LITERALLY TURNED INTO THE CRYSTAL HORN THEY ALL HAVE AND MISTY’s DIDNT??? Only for this not to happen and not only that, none of the others noticed her horn complete with the little piece ONLY the auroricorns have??? NO ONE?? 😭 I still feel like this has to be some set up for later, especially since Izzy is obsessed with luminescence, the only similar thing is the way the auroricorns talk about their regional magic. It HAS to be intentional but knowing how bad G5 is doing and the writing is… how it is. It would surprise me none if that never gets mentioned again even if the series does continue
That sounds like such a cool theory🤩
I was wondering why Izzy’s horn was crystal and not Misty’s. Misty’s horn has always looked a bit different than other unicorns ones, so i thought maybe thats why her horn did transform into crystal. I wonder why her horn looks different, but i guess there’s not really a particular reason, maybe they just have different look because the designer thought it would be nice to offer more “variety” in the looks of each pony’s.
I like your theory tho, its would be a cool story to bring.
I'm gonna "protect" things by basically being the thing that kills them
Don't worry, magic will be fine, i'm just gonna remove it from the world because i'm that powerful. Also I'm the villain. I mean forget that last part and also forget gen 4 but also not really
the designs are genuinely so ugly here. opaline, the dragons, the snow leopard I can't be bothered to remember... all hideous. a lot of it is probably for stupid marketing, too. the fans, new and old, really deserved better than this abomination of a story with more plot holes than swiss cheese.
Do you want to be a sequel to G4 or have your own continuity?
G5: Maybe.
Sad that starlight was not in the secret of starlight (though that might of been a blessing). I hope allura will get a very good backstory
That would've been Great
True, I was hoping Starlight Glimmer would've came back and finally wrapped up the lose ends of the missing history but instead it's some awful looking weird lion villain
@@6-dpegasus425 snow leopard villain
Why are you sad? She was not an immortal Alicorn, she was never going to appear in Make your Mark
Me too I was sad that she wasn’t in it
It’s a big F U to all the previous MLP fans. Which is a shame because they could have done so much more with the character building and storyline. It’s obviously targeted to a younger audience my six year old daughter binge watched the whole series without any complaints and as I was watching it with her it just felt very meh and boring compared to everything else on Netflix.
And the fact that they made twilight so dumb, like be fr her most obvious trait is being smart. Wth is this 😭
All the dragons look like they came out of the Barbie movies, those old ones in 3D. Seriously, Spyro made better models than these and I'm not talking about the remake.
16:45 Oh, I think I get it. That rainbow heart thing is a call back to G1 where they defeat half of the villains with the same thing.
half the villains? Wasn't it just Tirek?
@@soniquefus there was also cat lady, the three witches and the smooze, and I'm pretty sure it was used in some other episodes but I'm not gonna check twice.
And the generations comic explain how it ended up in equestrian
When i first saw the clips of dragons with hair flying around attacking the lighthouse i thought opaline some how got magic to turn ponies into dragons. The fact that they just have hair now is really baffling to me
Lmaoo, thats very funny to me for some reason. Yes, its kind of weird that dragon got hair, doesn’t make much sense
That would have been a great callback to G1 Tirek turning ponies into dragons. Too bad the writers didn't think of it. 🤣
I dropped the series aftter Sparky was "kidnapped" and hidden in the basement of the brighthouse. And the actual, no joke, solution the gang came up with to find him was to sing in the town square and follow his voice when he would sing back to them. And somehow the laws of physics ceases to exist and this absolutely worked!
And, yeah, that broke me.
Everyting else I've learned via osmosis just went to show that this gen was beyong saving, and the writers absolutely did not care. :T
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE SCHOOL OF FRIENDSHIP DAMMIT
@qtea3.149 BETTER YET WHAT HAPPENED TO THE STUDENT 6!!!!!!
omfg stop cause the whole fire alicorn thing was my old ocs BACKSTORY FROM YEARS AGO HAHAHA NOOOOO OML
Let's look at the bright side: while being rushed and full of continuity errors that not even the: "But it's made for kiiids! So we can make it shitty even if it's full of kids product that are good!" can save, the plot finally moved forward, the episodes were coherent and tied togheter and Opaline got her conclusion, thou I would have wrote something more... epic let's say.
Dislike her or not, Opaline was a major part of this serie and had really good moments, I think she deserved something incredible for her defeat like other major villains... I think I'm gonna write something about her getting a better defeat scene, especially after seeing how the authors treated her and made her especially stupid.
I'm just sad they got so lazy (high budget or not, you can still make different models or try to make them look something more then a bunch of twins) that the dragons are literally copy and paste of the same model with no unique trait and to symbolize their "unique magic" they just lazily put cutiemarks on them and copied the ponies instead of doing something original, the world building has always been a big part of MLP after all, with all its creatures and how different they were and now it's terrible. BUT this gives us something to theorize about: if dragons started having cutiemarks, it means their new generations got something from ponies (beside the lazyness in the desings and the lack of interest and care for this project to actually make something good), so, who was the first dragon that started banging a pony and created those?
Think about it: they went from different and strange-looking bipedal lizards to quadrupedal dragons with hair-like crests (much like ponies' manes) and they have cutiemarks? We need the fandom to write how the first dragon-pony came to be!😂
And to be honest... I'm interested in Allurah.
It's the first time we see a creature like her in MLP and while I honestly lost faith in the writers after they made scaled ponies and called those "dragons", I want to hope that they can still create something new and unique with this winged snow leopard and her powers how she came to be and what kind of villains she'll turn out to be.
Honestly I think chapter 6 was the best one in the whole series. The plot moved forward and that’s a big accomplishment for this show. Everything was very rushed but it was by far the best we’ve seen from make your mark. Although Spike is still a punching bag and Allurah was an unneeded ( and extremely ugly ) villain
Yeah me too I agree
I think allura was needed and I love the way she looked but she is stupid.
I don't like The review
She looks like a teenager's ugly sparklecat OC lmao
Fair yes, despite how much a mess this chapter was, given how short it was, every episode actually was coherently tied together in a single story compared to the previous ones in which nothing has any weight
i have a theory that the dragons from the isle of scaly are a different breed of dragons, maybe the og dragon island is still there, somewhere else. Maybe the isle of scaly was found by equestria post season 9. Maybe spike was sent there to protect the new dragon land because they are more magical. It makes kinda sense seeing how different spike's design is from the rest of the dragons. That could explain a few things.
G5 is ugly. Every design is a tragedgy. But the dragons.... holy shite the dragons. They're so bad its embarassing. Talk about beating a dead horse...
This doesn't sit well with me; I find it unappealing regardless. I miss the charm of the previous My Little Pony iteration, or at the very least, incorporating elements of the old style. This current rendition feels catered solely to a younger audience or a niche group of pony enthusiasts, in my personal opinion.
Given Make Your Marks unknown future (aka if it will return for more episodes) it's really hilarious how they used the potential final outing to set up a brand new villain only for them to possibly never conclude that storyline.
Like sure Allura will still appear in Tell Your Tale but i really doubt they will actually progess the story.
From the few TYT episodes it might be possible they'll conclude it there or they might do an Avatar and have each season be a book with "Chapters" aka more batch releases which is shown to not be successful as evidence by Jojo part 6
Yeah. Many 3d shows and reboots nowadays have bad writing. I have experience. (Especially with Morphle Disney adaptation. Morphle before the 3d era was solid! The japanese dub is pretty good)
Opaline and Starlight may share some similarities by stealing cutie marks but at least their defeats were different and Opaline wasn’t redeemed like 5/10 (Not including Grogar/Discord) of major G4 season premiere/finale and movie villains have been redeemed and hell I’ll even add Garble, Neighsay, Ahuizotl and Cabelleron because their redemptions were so bad….
Ahuizotl's COULD have worked if he wasn't presented as an evil tyrant from his first appearance onward. No redeeming qualities, ever, until season 9.
Honestly, Neighsay's worked. It was a good example of "Enemy of my enemy" and he learned to get over his prejudice and change.
Seasons 8 and 9 had a fair amount of bad character writing / character undevelopment in general. There was plenty of good episodes but a good amount of bad ones.
@@theAstarrr honestly, I have a theory about the last part I think the school itself and the added workload made the mane six more hostile And that’s why the characterizing got worse in season 8
Well Starlight actually had a lot of character depth going for her
@@6-dpegasus425 for the show or in show or in season 8?
@@Mirthful_Panda overall starting with her debut in s5 (the finale added more light to her actions in the premiere) , and she has one of the strongest character developments in the series, paired with probably the best execution of a villain reformation (and yes this includes her backstory that most people don't understand the full depth of)
as someone who completely avoided this reboot from the moment that movie came out i am absolutely DUMBFOUNDED. like, did twighlight canonically turn evil or something? did i miss something from the last season of mlp cuz i havent seen it? why does spike look so horrible? I AM SO ENDLESSLY CONFUSED WHAT IS GOING ON
Twilight isn't evil. Spike looks horrible because all the characters do
In my opinion, the quality of graphics and designs dropped even further in the MLP era. I remember how people were outraged by the designs of older MLPs.Spike the dragon looked so weird or twilight she had a weird design too I think the people behind the projects simply left them
To me the best kind of villain is the kind of villain who just *IS* a threat. They dont need a song or fanfare, their mere presence and ideology alone are enough of a indication, intimidating, but not unreasonable.
And in opals defense, a unredeemable villain isnt bad writting, if anything it often serves to make them even MORE of a threat in many cases!
That being said, Opal absolutely turned me off, I do not like her.
We just gonna ignore that the heart locket at 16:10 isn''t a direct reference to the Rainbow of Light in G1 MLP 😅😂
G5 feels so dumbed down, I couldn't stand watching the first 2 episodes. I loved the movie but the shit continuity and the art/story feeling so pre-k, I just dropped it. I can still enjoy G4 even as an adult now but this one makes me lose brain cells
this franchise devolved back to a generic little kids' cartoon that doesn't care about plot or making sense and talks down to the kids watching it. So basically its just like all the bad kids movies like Witchmas, where there are constant inconsistencies and zero re-reads of the script or observation of past events.
the new ponies and villain are just flat out the crystal empire and king sombra and opaline was giving walmart starlight vibes before she was reformed and without the cool time travel 😭😭
The locket obviously a call back to the rainbow of light from g1
Idk why they randomly had to add it here but lol
It's just a cash grab series, just so they can create more ponies to make merchandise out of.
If they would have made a proper series it could have been popular with old fans as well and make more cash from selling toys to adults as well 😅.
It's hard to stick to lore I guess, and make decent storyline, because they failed miserably.
Spike’s voice is just not it, and the dragon designs are kinda lame. And even for a kid show they could have cared for it a lot more than this. G5 I’ve found it not worth rewatching. Meanwhile Bluey is a classic.
Ain't nothing wrong with the dragon designs
@@lightninggear0131they completely changed spike from his final G4 design and the others have the same body type. In G4 we had diverse body types for the dragons
@@dragonfire1466 at least he looks better now
@@lightninggear0131 Wrong
@@lightninggear0131 the point isn’t about weather he looks better or not it’s the fact they changed it. They already gave him an adult design and G5 continues from G4. What’s their explanation for the drastic change in spikes design because saying he “grew up” feels lazy
I am so disappointed with G5.
I don't even see it as being connected to G4 in any way due to how stupid it all is.
Spikes design is horrible 😂
No it ain't
@@lightninggear0131 Wrong opinion detected
@@FH4Player6397 not wrong
It truly is. Especially since it doesn’t match up at all with his previous designs and the very old big dragon designs in G4 either.
He looks crusty