My Little Pony: FiM Episode 21-22
Added 2023-05-15 01:51:37 +0000 UTCComments
Agreed
North Productions
2023-05-18 15:36:58 +0000 UTCTruer words have not been spoken when talking about this episode
North Productions
2023-05-18 15:35:42 +0000 UTCAfter season 3 you should watch the first Equestria Girls movie.
Princess Luna
2023-05-16 09:01:08 +0000 UTCAs for the ending, eh. I assume it's supposed to represent Thanksgiving? And people pointing out how they represented the natives as violent. I can see why people have a problem with natives being portrayed as . wild animals. I don't really mind too much? Since they're all animals and both sides resorted to war. Overall? An episode I enjoyed bc of RD and Strongheart. Love, love, LOVE how RD was able to get past their first impression and potential bias after hearing them out. Mwah. But the message? Ehhhh. It's okay. Unrealistic, but it's (again) a kid's show LOL
Wendyl . Hal
2023-05-16 08:39:39 +0000 UTCYippee !! Okay, I'm also of native descent. Note : We are Not a monolith. Every native will have diff opinions, ect, blah blah. I didn't think the episode was awful. It was fine. Just fine. I'd agree with the first comment if it wasn't obvious that this episode is a direct kid-friendly retelling of the founding of America. We don't know if the settler ponies knew it was buffalo land or not. Also, the buffalos weren't asking the ponies to leave, just to Not plant an orchard in land where they preform sacred rituals. Arguing that violence back then was fine because fighting for land was common lacks nuance. Natives fought each other for land, yes. But the European colonizers committed genocide and looked down on natives for not being white since it was considered the "superior race". While it *is* the past, we cannot ignore it. Especially when to this day, natives are still fighting for their rights. I Do wish the episode had expanded a little bit more on AJ and RD fighting a fight that wasn't even their own. It would've been interesting to see commentary on good-intended people speaking over those they're trying to help. But it's a kid show so shrug.
Wendyl . Hal
2023-05-16 08:33:17 +0000 UTCYou should watch Ducktales
Dylan Hernandez
2023-05-16 04:45:09 +0000 UTCI never understand why people throw such a fit over the one episode. I'm of native descent, and the whole thing at the founding of America was overall a complicated situation, just like this was. The settler ponies didn't KNOW this the buffalo used this land, and once all these resources were invested it's not easy to just.... leave. The needed food to live, anyone who acts like the settler ponies should just go screw off is being irrational based on what is the norm for that time. I'd love to expand on this point but I don't want to give spoilers, so ya'll who know, just think about future episodes. I think too many people get emotional about what happened in the past and just side with the people who lost. While it's something we disapprove of today, there was a lot of available land back then, and going to war to win land wasn't a foreign concept. Many Native Americans won their land by killing and pillaging other tribes. It's kind of nonsense to give European settlers (or settlers of any kind) shit for doing THE EXACT SAME THING just because they won. History sucks, nobody is perfect, and we cannot keep focusing on the mistakes of the past and trying to blame others. Nobody today is to blame for the actions of the past, and it is unreasonable to expect native born Americans today to go screw or try and make up with people they didn't do any wrong to. Finding compromise and moving on is what we should do, and is exactly the point this episode pushes.
Soiren
2023-05-15 06:18:27 +0000 UTC
