Thread 42718153

I like lauren faust's my little pony for incredibly specific, meta-narrative reasons, that being as a wonderful commentary, critisism and satire on the industry that lauren faust works in ( broadly being kids and little girls storytelling). the premise of faust's FiM is not as a story about ponies and friendship, but as grumblings about the works of her co-workers and predecesors.

the meta-narrative premise of pinkies overall chracter in faust era fim ( which im just gonna call early fim for simplicity) is as a satire on comic relief characters being useless, dumb and an active hinderence to the characters and world they interact with. they do this by having pinkie always be right and have her approach to life be with full undertanding of the silly, nonsensical, contradictery, never explained pony world that she lives in. all the other mane 6 ( they really hammer down this fact with twilight but its not exclusive to her) have their approach to life be firmly based in the real world and not in the pony world they live in. this is important for later so write this down. the genius of this is this that if you took pinkies personality and put it in the real world, she'd be the exact kind of person she was meant to satirise. what the writers did the opposite, they melded the entire world around pinkie pie so that she would be the one smartest and most adept to live in it. she would be the smartest one who best understood the world she lives in with the vice versa being true for twilight, who would be the smartest in the real world but is aloof to the goings on of the world she lives in and the people she befriends.

>>42718153 (OP)
one of my favourite examples of this is in it's about time where unlike twilight, pinkie takes a very healthy approach to the future. whereas twilight prepares for the future in a realistic way because she doesnt understand that she lives in a funny, crazy kooky pony world and so goes insane trying to control things she cant control. pinkie on the other hand, is the smarter one and understands the world that she lives in and so knows what she can and cant control about it.

of course she tells twilight that she's gonna get a great present for her birthday, becasue that's her *plan* for a happy future and she know what she can and cant control about the future.
of course she has eyepatches stored in chimneys, she lives in my little pony and is prepared for every eventuality.
of course she stores beach balls in trees just in case a greek mythological creature comes to her town, she lives in my little pony and she knows it and prepares for it.

pinkies "randomness" isnt randomness, its a full and complete understanding of her place in the world. it only became randomness after Faust left and she just becomes aloof to basic cues and just an annoyance to the ponies around her in episodes like Filli Vannilli and A Trivial Pursuit and almost all of the rest of the show. it just seems like the writing staff just contracted autism the second Lauren Faust stopped breathing down their necks and forcing them to stay in the writers room untill that had a good meta-narrative to a story.

this understanding of her world and twilight's lack of it is also shown in feeling pinkie keen, where pinkie understands her pinkie sense and knows all of its quirks while twilight tries in vain to understand it, not knowing that this world doesn't explain itself.

they even take this concept further in episodes like Party Of One ( where they challenge this concept by putting pinkie in a situation where she doesn't understand what's going on around her and goes crazy as a result) and Swarm of the Century, where the entire running joke is based on this premise, where pinkie is perpetually confused as to why all the rest of the mane 6 don't understand her world like she does.

that's why i like early mlp more than late mlp because the way that late mlp connects its episodes is by plot, while the way early mlp connects episodes is by narrative, not by plot. there's no surface level plot connecting all the episodes together, but they're still intrinsically linked together by the meta-narrative point of our beloved Pink Pony named Pinkie Pie.

Nice effortposting, OP, and an interesting read

Pink Ponk.

>>42718153 (OP)
ponka a good girl. Nu-writers, not so much

>>42718153 (OP)
I hate Pinkie Pie

>>42718153 (OP)
Le bump

>>42718153 (OP)
this is a cool analysis OP, I don't have much to add but I appreciate the perspective

>>42718153 (OP)
Guess what? It's another bump.

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>>42718153 (OP)
But Pinkoe is realistic in the real world. She's the only one of the mane 6 who hasn't seemingly fallen into a huge inheritance or lucked into an incredible opportunity. Rainbow Dash is the only other pony who has to actually work for a living, and even she is obviously a career-track athlete who just temporarily has to work at a factory. Pinkie's dream job is the only treated as what all of these jobs really would be - a side hustle you can't actually pay the bills with.

She's not just hard-working in cartoon logic, she's actually hard-working. She's really the only pony who represents the working class, everyone else is petit-bourgeois or bourgeois (except for, again, RD, who is only temporarily working class until she can break into the major leagues).

>>42721576
>Rainbow Dash is the only other pony who has to actually work for a living

>>42721576
She's also the only one whose passion isn't directly attached to their day-to-day job, which is true for lots and lots of people. Rainbow Dash used to also be in this category when her main thing was being a part of the weather team but, like you said, that's just a temporary state that she then evolves out of when she becomes her true self.