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The main characters are as follows:
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Zoe Trent: A dog with Twilight Sparkle’s color scheme that acts like Rarity. I’ve seen it said it’s unfair to call her design “inspired” by Twilight’s, but they’re literally exactly the same colors. Probably one of the most memorable characters though.
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Sunil Nelva: A mongoose that apparently wants to be a magician. I really don’t know. Does show how Peter New can voice act really well, though.
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Russell Ferguson: A hedgehog with Double D from Ed Edd n’ Eddy’s voice. Essentially is Double D in hedgehog form and is by far the consistently most entertaining character on the show.
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Vinnie Terrio: A lizard, I think? He’s not that bright and jokes are made about that all the time. Okay, I guess, but not very memorable.
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Penny Ling: A panda (yes, really) that isn’t really interesting, usually acts like a pastiche of various Fluttershy moments, alternating between “RAGE” and sweetness.
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Pepper Clark: One of the two comic relief pets. She’s a prop comic. Funny in short doses, but she cannot carry an episode by herself and the ones she does are incredibly weird and unfunnny for all the wrong reasons.
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Minka Mark: Oh, boy. Imagine if FiM had a Pinkie Clone instead of Pinkie herself and you’d have a pretty good idea of what Minka is like. She’s pretty much Pinkie, but with any sort of relatability replaced with randomness.
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Notice how I left out the humans? Well, the humans, including Blythe, are boring. I can only believe this was intentional to get us to focus on the pets more, but the thing is that LPS has subplots. You go from a song inspired by Thriller that’s hilarious to Blythe just standing around and talking to her friends. The flow of the show is strange at times because of this, and again, I believe it’s intentional.
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I think the people who made this show realize how absolutely insane it is in execution and just go all out with the weirdness. Sometimes it fits, and sometimes it doesn’t. I think that if any other staff other than FiM’s were working on this show it wouldn’t be nearly close to successful. The VAs are pretty great, Ingram knows how to write and it’s interesting to hear him experiment with styles that wouldn’t fit FiM, and occasionally the jokes are pretty funny.
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It’s just that…I don’t know, this show has never “clicked” with me the same way FiM has. It can be entertaining sometimes for sure, but it’s not something that I’d watch years down the road. I have a feeling it will probably always be in FiM’s shadow and compared to it, but I honestly think that’s to the show’s benefit.
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tl;dr, LPS is just a decent show. You can tell they had a lot of fun making it, but it’s just “missing” something.
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