@Xidphel  
Twilicorn and EqG did not faze me much. In fact, I was optimistic on those.
 
But this…

@SeraphimDawn  
Were cartoons for 4 to 7 year olds dark and edgy when you were a kid?

@Red Yellow Moon  
Just continuing my previous post.

@Xidphel  
Who are you replying to with that comment?

@Xidphel  
But this is just another Twicorn/EQG thing.

Hm, I just noticed that Discord isn’t mentioned in the summary.

@SeraphimDawn  
Yes, I see your hate boner for the comic.

@SeraphimDawn  
This is why I never join in on the laughter when people making a form of entertainment look like they stop giving a shit.
 
People who do that rarely produce good things.

@Background Pony #F532  
The comics have gone to shit, especially with the attitude the comic writers have towards fan criticism by shamelessly brushing them aside without taking time to listen to legitimate concerns.
 
Well it’s time for those soccer moms to suck it up and let their kids grow up. Kids’ show were far more darker and deeper back in my childhood days than they are now. It’s time cartoons reclaim that.

@SeraphimDawn  
Wow. When I said about two years ago that people would, within a year, attack the comics just as harshly as they were then attacking the show, I didn’t realize it would sink to this level.
 
Not sure how I feel about this. On the one hand, the show probably wouldn’t be allowed to give the villains’ backstories the required darkness and/or moral complexity to make for a compelling, convincing origin; on the other hand, the comic (save for Chrysalis’s depravity during parts of the first arc) really hasn’t been doing that with the villains either. _{(Not that I think the stories need to go into TV-MA territory, but they’d probably need to be TV-PG.)}

@Background Pony #D553  
But I believe the show isn’t allowed to tackle the subjects the comics already touched upon.  
And it would look too awkwardly confusing especially to the younger fans the show is targeting towards, for the show to make a completely different approach to the stories. Even if it’s alternate canon.
 
Remember, ideas get thrown to the comics to be discarded by the main series.

@SeraphimDawn  
That’s intentional. It is about the villains, after all…

@SeraphimDawn  
Show IS separate and independent from comics, you know. All that comics, books, TCG is just Extended Universe and completely optional.

@Background Human  
All the good potential ideas for a good show… down the f-ing drain.  
Now we must count on the show to make more villains, to compensate the ones shat up by the comics.
 
At this rate, it wouldn’t be the show going bad that destroys the series we love. Not the fandom’s fault. Nor would it be directly Hasbro. But the comic dragging everything else down with it by eating up all these cool ideas and defecating them out as piles of worthless dung instead of making honey from the pollens.

@Background Human  
What exactly are you dreading?

@Background Human  
I feel that way 24/7.
 
Don’t feel too good, do it?

Is… is this how the people who hate Twilicorn and EqG feel? The sense that something you love is going down a terrible path, and there’s not a damn thing you can do about it?

Very interesting.  
I would like to see the origins. Mostly the changelings, and the dazzlings. Well see!

@ALIS  
You’re pleading to a wall…

Yes, Dazzling and Changeling back story. I am about as pleased as you could get.
 
God I hope they don’t pull an Anon-a-miss, Marine Sandwich Cloud Gremlins, Twilight can’t stop bulls or instant forgiveness.
 
Make this good IDW, please!

I just hope the show introduces more new villains in the future.

@SeraphimDawn  
Yeah, imagine that.
 
Imagine how awesome that could be, if the show took some time off to depict the concepts they throw in the maw of Idw to be chewed up.

@Itsthinking  
They should’ve let the show tackle this instead of the comics.

Please don’t make it that ALL the villains have parents…  
Maybe some of them are artificial beings.  
And don’t shove them all to one time frame. Getting sick of this 1000 years crap.

I don’t think this will turn out well.