What the hay happened to Pinkie Pie?!

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Hi.
 
First things first: I began to watch this show in November 2011. Back then, I was fucking depressed and I’d like to watch something new. Then, I was totally in love with this TV show. And one of the big reasons was Pinkie Pie. She is a happy pony who likes to make eveyrpony happy. She has great episodes like Party of One, Griffon the Brush off, Over a Barrel, Baby cakes, etc.
 
When we have only two seasons, of all the episodes I’ve seen, the only one I didn’t like was A friend in deed, mainly beacuse instead of giving us a funny and happy Pinkie Pie, they give us a creepy and annoying character. I didn’t like it, but it was only one episode of all the 52, so no problem.
 
This is where the problems started to being bigger and bigger. In a moment of the third season, Pinkie Pie was becoming from a likeable character to an annoying screamer: Too many pinkie pies, Wonderbolts academy, the Equestria Girls movies, Pinkie Apple Pie, Rainbow Falls, the beginning of Three’s a Crowd, Simple ways, Filli Vanilli, Cutie Map, the beggining of Inspiration Manifestation… I had found feelings during years, sort of.
 
Because of this, when we’re talking about the newest episode, I always point that Pinkie Pie wasn’t a funny character, and they said “hater” to me. I personally am not a hater. I just don’t like the way the scripters writes her like some kind of annoying pony. She wasn’t annoying in the first two seasons (except A friend in deed).
 
When Season 5 started, I was… a few hyped. I mean, I like to see my favorite ponies, but suddenly we have the ending of part 1, when Pinkie Pie TELLS the plan to Starlight, making her something like a traitor. When I point it, they said to me the typical “hater” line and I really did not like the character since season 1, a line I disagree.
 
Anyway, although Pinkie Pie is not the funny and charming character she was in the past, she wasn’t as annoying as in Season 4… until I watched Party Pooped. In this episode she has some of the scariest and creepiest faces I’ve ever see in the TV show. And don’t forget her classic screams from the Seasons 3 and 4.
 
Because of it, I’ve decided to talk about it with them, in a spanish forum about My Little Pony. They said to me that she has those expressions because she’s a cartoon. I have two problems with this line:
 
  1. Just because a cartoon is a cartoon doesn’t mean she has to make the expressions “made in Ren & Stimpy”, unless you are Adventure Time or (a little bit) Gravity Falls.
     
  2. She didn’t make these expressions in Season 1 and 2. And, if she did back then, it was less than 1 second, and that’s it.
     
    In conclusion, Pinkie Pie nowadays is my least favorite character, which is extremely disappointing, because she was my favorite character. Hell, I even made years ago (before season 3) a presentation about the TV show for an hour and I’ve said Pinkie Pie was my absolutely favourite character. What happened to her? What happened to the writters of Pinkie Pie?
     
    My theory is that Hasbro controls too much the show that it says to the writters: “Write Pinkie with some screams and some weird expressions, nothing more”. That reminds me of The Simpsons, its declining quality and the “evolution” of Homer Simpson. Nowadays, expressions and effects are more important than a good story, some good characters and a good moral.
     
    At least we have some good episodes in Season 5, like Bloom and Gloom and The Lost Treasure of Griffonstone (except the rope part of Pinkie, that was stupid). But I really wanted to talk about her personality.
     
    If you like Pinkie like nowadays, that’s really cool. But I miss some details of her. She was charming, adorable, funny, innocent…
     
    Love,  
    RT
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I don’t think you know pinkie pie. Also, her actiona in over a barrel were out of character. Also, in the best night ever, she upstaged a band at the gala. Ànd to your point about too many pinkie pies, have you confused her for her clones, because if not you’re comment makes no sense. Also, what about pinkie pide. also, all of her actions in Pinkie Apple pie were in character, you’re just bad a character analysis. And I disagree with you on your point about the simpsons. Also, the increase in the variety of facial expressions over the seasons has nothing to do with the characters, but rather it is the animation simply getting better. And animation quality is not in universe at all.
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I’m sadly going to have to agree… It seems like she’s less a character that belongs in this show as she is a character that’s borrowed from a show where all the characters are self-aware they are cartoon characters.  
Like, they turned the randomness and screeching up to 11 and they don’t know how to come back down to how Pinkie was in the early episodes.
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I don’t see it… I’ve been a big fan of Pinkie since season 1 and I think she’s as funny and lovable as ever. And to me A Friend in Deed was one of her greatest moments of glory.
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Okay, I guess.
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Flanderization: The act of taking a single (often minor) action or trait of a character within a work and exaggerating it more and more over time until it completely consumes the character. Most always, the trait/action becomes completely outlandish and it becomes their defining characteristic.
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Okay, I guess.
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That’s your opinion, and while you are entitled to have it, you can’t wave it around as if it were a solid fact.
 
S01 and 02 Pinkie had her wacky moments but she was also written as a character who used to think more about things. From 03 on her reality defying wackyness and mental randomness went over the top and stayed there for good.
 
Basically she became what the 2011 fandom already had made their headcanon for Derpy Hooves.
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@thatguy
That’s your opinion, and while you are entitled to have it, you can’t wave it around as if it were a solid fact.
S01 and 02 Pinkie had her wacky moments but she was also written as a character who used to think more about things. From 03 on her reality defying wackyness and mental randomness went over the top and stayed there for good.
Basically she became what the 2011 fandom already had made their headcanon for Derpy Hooves.
 
In season 1 an entire episode was dedicated to her having a nervous breakdown, talking to inanimate objects, and stalking her friends. I find that no less over the top than anything in recent seasons. But ok.
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Flanderization: The act of taking a single (often minor) action or trait of a character within a work and exaggerating it more and more over time until it completely consumes the character. Most always, the trait/action becomes completely outlandish and it becomes their defining characteristic.
 
Wow! Was that a real word? I didn’t know that!
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@Anonycat  
What about ‘Cutie Map’, ‘Griffonstone’ or even this past episode? Pinkie seemed to be on the ball there (wasn’t fooled by the town’s false cheer; she knew Griffons needed to start caring for one another instead of retrieving an idol; figured out how to please the Yaks…)
 
Honestly, these “Pinkie was perfect in Season 1” claims seems like yet another “Lauren Faust left and the show is worse for it” argument…
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Yaksmas episode was one of the worst offenders. I can’t think of a single line that she wasn’t screeching or being a cringey spastic weirdo in public. I mean, she even slid up a slide. I know she was in a mirror reflection and popped out of a bucket of sponges in season 1, but I expect Discord to slide up a slide or fill up a glass of chocolate milk by “drinking” it. Not Pinkie.
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It's a cartoon show!
Only episode in my mind that one could say with out a doubt she was flanderized in was in Games Ponies Play. Her dialogue was bad and her actions while outlandish in Pinkie Pie fashion were inappropriate. Outside of that instance she’s been on point especially during this season. The season premier was one of the best episodes pinkie has been written in the show for the reasons stated by others in this thread.
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@Anonycat
What about ‘Cutie Map’, ‘Griffonstone’ or even this past episode? Pinkie seemed to be on the ball there (wasn’t fooled by the town’s false cheer; she knew Griffons needed to start caring for one another instead of retrieving an idol; figured out how to please the Yaks…)
Honestly, these “Pinkie was perfect in Season 1” claims seems like yet another “Lauren Faust left and the show is worse for it” argument…
 
^this
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Oi vey. Knew this would be a divisive topic from the beginning.  
“It’s fine, everything’s perfect” for you maybe. But not for everyone. Subjectively, I can barely stand Pinkie Pie anymore and I’m someone that pegged Pinkie as his favorite from the beginning.
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@Siberian Pizza  
Have you watched any of her episodes post filli vanilli, because if you had you would know that her flanderization was only a temporary problem that was permanently fixed in pinkie pride.
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>Implying that Pinkie was fine in Season 2  
>Implying that Season 2 was good
 
Season 2 of FiM was like Season 2 of Enterprise: So bad that it should’ve come with a complimentary noose and ladder; thus implying that Pinkie was good in a terrible season doesn’t make any sense. Her episodes sucked in that season, but that isn’t saying much, since that season sucked.
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@Ebalosus  
Opinions, they exist, believe it or not! I know, shocking! I’m very surprised too, I mean, wow, opinions aren’t facts, so mind blowing,
 
I like Season 2 the best and I never had a problem with Pinkie in any season. I guess I’m just the crazy one.
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Yaksmas episode was one of the worst offenders. I can’t think of a single line that she wasn’t screeching or being a cringey spastic weirdo in public. I mean, she even slid up a slide. I know she was in a mirror reflection and popped out of a bucket of sponges in season 1, but I expect Discord to slide up a slide or fill up a glass of chocolate milk by “drinking” it. Not Pinkie.
 
“I know she did stuff ten times crazier than that in the past but this one was still too far.”
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