@Background Pony #686C  
>what is jokes

@Background Pony #528C  
People act like a pony sinking to the ground or acting a little crazy was something extremely dark and disturbing.

@Background Pony #686C  
Um, no one’s scared of anything here, what are you even talking about?

*looks at the comments* Bronies sure are easy to scare.

@Jarkes  
A Canterlot Wedding I could see as a legit cliffhanger, but the other two you mentioned? Nah.

The scene that gave me the most willies was when Apple Bloom got her third cutie mark in the middle of the night, and she could barely more than mouth “Help me…” to Applejack.
 
But it’s not just kids who love a good shiver. This wonderful feeling is why Ed loved having Shenzi say “Mufasa!” to him.

@Background Pony #5D41  
Not especially, I try not to single out people who work in the show.
 
And I don’t really care for the comics.

@PonyPon  
Do you like any of the people working on the show or comic? Because it seems like any time there’s a tweet or other text from someone working on MLP, you’ve got something dismissive or derogatory to say.

@Jarkes I would have loved to see all the kooky revenge fics and “Twi in Tartarus” fics.

@Jarkes  
Eh… Return of Harmony? Seriously, Part One was totally freaky and scary. It totally kicked ass, so the wait for Part Two was deadly!  
…And then we got a rushed climax and a Deuce Ex Machina to solve the “protagonist lost to corruption.”

@Jarkes  
A week in between the parts of “Canterlot Wedding” would have been great. A literal 10 minutes passed between “Twilight’s gone to Hell!” and “Oh, wait she’s just in a cavern”.
 
I would have loved a week of “Twilight in Hell” art and speculation.
 
It also would have made the reveal of Chrysalis more nuts, but then it might made also made it underwhelming after a week’s speculation.

@Jarkes  
That would have been evil, but man would it have gotten people talking.

@Itsthinking
 
And the show HAS gotten away with some legitimately terrifying stuff. Like Pinkie’s mental breakdown, or the breakdown Twilight had four episodes later. Or the fake Cadance surrounding Twilight with green flames and dragging her into the ground, basically looking like she was dragging her into hell (and a dark cave is pretty close to that). My brother and I were STUNNED when that moment happened. As was the rest of the audience, no doubt.
 
…Seriously, thank GOD we’ve gotten both parts of a two-parter back-to-back ever since then (and including that). Can you imagine how traumatized people would’ve been if they had had to wait a week between parts 1 and 2 of “A Canterlot Wedding,” “The Crystal Empire,” and “Princess Twilight?”

@Niggoslav_Krawczyk  
Nah, now it’s more like “punish the evil evildoer mcevilton that represents everything BAD you should never do.”
 
And then they throw in comedy that completely undermines the seriousness of the villain, but that’s just par for course in a post-Adventure Time creative landscape.

@Itsthinking Well, parents groups used to throw a shitfit about it in the day. And they’re even more hardcore now so I def think there’s something to that.

@Jarkes  
Yet, they’re still rated G.
 
You can actually get away with quite a bit with a TV-Y rating. They just focus on slice-of-life more because it’s easier to keep things in continuity. In general, the show is better at continuity than the comics.
 
I have really serious trouble believing that the market for FiM tops out at six. I’m convinced that was just Hasbro trying to placate investors or something, considering that the show does exceedingly well in the 6-11 demo.

@Background Pony #686C  
Yeah, the Chrysalis arc isn’t exactly my favorite bunch of the comics, partially because they both were getting their bearings…
 
@Niggoslav_Krawczyk  
Remind me again how kicking evil people off of cliffs isn’t okay? That’s textbook how to kill a villain shit there.
 
And that other thing is for a different market.

@Itsthinking
 
Besides, as Jayson Thiessen himself has said, kids love to be scared.
 
Though I do think that the target audience for the comic IS still in the age range of 7-10 year olds… Those ARE still children, after all, just slightly older. Plus, they can handle a bit more darkness. Heck, look at 90% of classic animated Disney movies. Those movies are FREAKY sometimes.

@Itsthinking  
+7 is still for children, it’s just a little bit more mature. Which the comics, especially written by Cook&Price, actually are compared to the cartoon.

@Itsthinking Hasbro also believes that bucking people, even evil, off of cliffs is A-OK  
And that a show about cute pones poning like pones should really be High School Musical.  
I’m not so sure their morality has shown itself to be comprehensible to mere mortals.

@Jarkes  
Hasbro apparently believed that it was okay, and they still want the comics to be for children.
 
The darkest thing that happened in that arc was only implied, and there was a lot of silliness in the rest of it as well.

@Itsthinking
 
With some of the stuff that happened in the Queen Chrysalis arc alone, I have immense difficulty believing that.

@Background Pony #686C  
No way are the comics designed for that old of an audience. They’re adamant their primary target is still children.

@Starlight Storm
 
For the love of God, Andy has said COUNTLESS times that the Daring Do plague was probably just an award that was called the “Daring Do Award.”
 
And besides, that was written and released BEFORE season 4, anyway. So they might not have even known about the whole “Daring Do is real” thing.

@Starlight Storm  
See @Trickquestion
 
Though I kind of think a lot of the story was structured around just having a shitload of 80s references more than anything else, and that raises a bunch of questions…