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For the amount of praise grownups were giving it, I was expecting something like Darkwing Duck, or at least Scooby-Doo.

Wrong demographic, wrong age bracket. The praise MLP initially is because it's decently animated and has a varied female cast and the show is more than a simple commercial for toys like the old show was.

The reason the show is popular is because creepy dudes with pedophilic tendencies found the show.

I find Scooby Doo to be a less mature show than MLP. Maybe it's not as "kiddy", but...

Scooby do was really formulaic, even in comparison to other kids shows, once you'd seen 2 or 3 episodes you could pretty much predict every episode after that.

The only surprise in Scooby do was when it turned out later on that the supernatural was actually real, and even that got predictable after they beat the premise into the ground.

So yeah, in a way, I actually agree with you, there really wasn't anything remotely complex in Scooby Do at all. I still enjoyed it, but it was a really vanilla show story wise.

LOL. Have you actually rewatched Darkwing Duck recently(or ever watched Scooby-Doo?)?

I watched some episodes of Darkwing Duck a couple weeks ago, and I watched one of the recent versions of Scooby-Doo a couple months ago as well. I won't say they're as clever or insightful as what I've seen of MLP, but my difficulty isn't with cleverness or insightfulness, it's specifically with the way the characters talk.

(In retrospect, I really should have mentioned in the original post that I have trouble reading tone of voice. Vocabulary and sentence structure are my main way of figuring out how to interpret what someone is saying, so when very different characters talk in very similar ways, I notice it quickly and strongly and can't really tune it out.)

Nostalgia effect, possibly. You think those old shows are the shit because that's what you grew up with, when really MLP is probably right on par and you can't see it because your head is in a different place now.

Scooby-Doo, maybe, but it was my brother who grew up with Darkwing Duck. I literally never watched it before a couple weeks ago. I would never attempt to claim that it's a better show than MLP, and it's certainly less mature in some ways, but I have a much easier time watching it, just because it's for an older target audience and has more variety in how the characters talk.

"for an older target audience "

Nope. The target age for the audience is exactly the same between Darkwing Duck and MLP. The difference is Darkwing Duck was mostly a comedy parody of Batman. You are mistaking things being different genre as between from different target age groups.

I find it somewhat doubtful that Darkwing Duck was intended for viewers as young as 2.

MLP is not aimed at toddlers either, brighteyes. Get over it.

Brighteyes? And I thought "fishbulb" was random.

There was a point earlier today when I was damn near crying because random people on the Internet were angry at me. It's pathetic, but I'm a pathetic person, at least in the sense that I very easily assume that anyone who's angry at me is justified in their anger and I am a horrible person for making them angry. But I'm now seeing 2-3 anons throwing profanity around because they think I'm wrong about the demographic that a show is aimed at. I repeat: a person making confident but (according to them) incorrect statements about the demographic a show is aimed at is bringing people to a frothing rage.

Seriously, if being a fan of a show about cute pastel ponies loving and tolerating each other makes you more prone to anger at other people saying stupid things, you might want to reevaluate your life.

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