>>42316403 (OP)
If they're just trying to make "the next gen 4" it's going to be shit, because in that case even the best case scenario will just be bargain bin I-Can't-Believe-It's-Not-FiM! It better be completely fresh with its own identity, because you can't recapture bottled lightning, the only thing you can do is open a new bottle. The focus on interpersonal relationships is what made early gen4 so great, though, so I'm not sure what other concept they could go for that would resonate with me as well as that did.
I'm not sure what hopes I have for it. I heard the series really went to shit in s6+ but I stopped watching mid-s5 as a kid and I've only just caught up to there on my rewatch (I can hardly believe it's been a full decade), so I have no personal experience with how bad it gets later on (I'm trying to go in with an open mind but I'm bracing myself at the same time). Still, I don't think a single thing hasbro's made since then seems interesting, and the little I've seen about gen 5 looks utterly bland... so I'll take the safe prediction of "its chances of being successful are inversely proportional to how creatively involved the suits at hasbro are". It's probably entirely up to whether or not they bring in good outside creatives.
Frankly, I don't think much of what made FiM so uniquely great is innately tied to the MLP brand at all, beyond "any future iterations of the brand will be clueless execs poorly trying to recreate what THEY think made FiM so successful". If I want a similar buzz I'll probably be looking elsewhere for it. Just because it's the same rightsholders as the good one doesn't mean it can trace even the tiniest iota of its creative energy to any of its predecessors, and the chances of it being "the new FiM" are no better than any random unrelated series ending up good enough to be "the new FiM".
