As a kid show, this is actually pretty good. It has everything you could want for your kids. That's not what I am here to talk about though because of the vast amount of praise this show gets from the adult fanbase. I want to talk about how it does for a show for adults. Frankly, there is nothing there. Story: What you would expect from a show like this. An episodic show about 5 young ponies learning life lessons through adventure or just daily events. Nothing too amazing. The life lessons which bronies love to talk about are really simple. If you are above 12 and still need to be reminded of those things, that is really sad. Animation: it's is average at best. It is admittedly cute and fine for young kids, but God help me if I hear one more brony say it's the best TV animation. It really isn't. Compared to TV shows like Sound!Euphonium, Hyouka, or Fate/Zero to name a few, it is incredible how they even try to say that. Compared to American TV animation (especially korra and Avatar) it is at the lower end of the spectrum. I won't say it's bad because it's does nothing wrong, but it is very simplistic and unworthy or praise. This actually bothers me more than the any other claim. It does a huge disservice to much better studios when you say that about MLP. It's a flash animated cartoon for Christ sake. Characters: Defined by one trait. You have the bookworm, jock, country hic, crazy one, shy one, snob. Really doesn't go much deeper than that.
I don't really want to dwell much longer on this, so I will just say this. It's probably not worth your time.
I don't really want to dwell much longer on this, so I will just say this. It's probably not worth your time.