Well then here is something that I wasn't expecting to be doing for a little while but imagine my surprise when I was checking the internet a few hours ago and I found two full episodes of My Little Pony: Pony Life. I was honestly not expecting to see any episodes of this show until at least September but apparently the show has been airing on Treehouse TV and those two episodes found there way online and so here are my first impressions of "My Little Pony: Pony Life" enjoy guys and girls.
From what I can gather this show is taking the same approach as Teen Titans Go! and by that I mean it has no real plot and just follows the main characters in a slice of life type of show. This really isn't a bad direction for the franchise since we've just had nine seasons of a show that had alot of plot and so to see one that's seems to be light on plot is oddly refreshing to see and one that while it was shocking at first it was also something that I got used to pretty quickly.
All of the actors are reprising their roles from Friendship Is Magic which again made this show feel like Teen Titans Go to me since they did the exact same thing. From what I can tell just based of these first two episodes the acting does seem to be pretty good but i'd need to see more episodes to fully judge it and i'll get into why soon but yeah just based of these two episodes the acting in the series seems to be pretty good.
The reason why I can't fully judge the acting is because each eleven minuets episode is split into two five minuet segments which doesn't really leave alot of time to fully judge the acting since your focused on things like the plot and humour. This is something that I can see effecting the rest of the show as well but only time will tell if it does effect the rest of the show or not and because the show is cut down alot it does mean that the actors don't get the chance to leave an impression on you.
The animation for this series is being done by Boulder Media who did the animation for the first season of The Amazing World of Gumball and the reboot of Danger Mouse. If your a fan of Gumball then chances are your going to like the animation in this series since like I said it's by the same studio and while the animation does indeed look good I personally prefer the animation in Friendship Is Magic just because it looked more like a fantasy show then this one does.
One of the things that I don't really like about this series is the backgrounds more specifically the backgrounds in Ponyville. Simply because those backgrounds just look unfinished and uninspired and since this is meant to be set in the same continuity as Friendship is Magic which had good looking backgrounds for this show to use those locations and give them terrible backgrounds just doesn't work well at all.
Now I keep on mentioning Teen Titans Go and that's because Pony Life honestly reminds me so much of that show. Even down to redesigning the characters and giving them more chibi / cutesy designs which I honestly didn't mind yes the new designs will take some getting used to but once you get used to designs hopefully you guys will like them but if not then that's cool as well but for me these new designs look good.
I really cannot say if all of the characters are acting in character here since like I said there's only two episodes released. From what I have seen tho they do seem to be acting in character but only time will tell if that remains true or not I hope it is because if not then I can see this show getting alot of hate from both Pony and non Pony fans alike but if they do then I can see a little less hate coming this shows way.
There is some connective tissue between episodes one and two which is something that I really wasn't expecting from this show whatsoever but it's something that i'm glad was there. Just because I like it when shows continue a plot line started in another episode i'm not going to say what it is but if you've seen the episodes then you'll know what it is and I hope that they keep bringing this plot line back just because it has potential to be really funny.
This is a harmless show and isn't as bad as say Thundercats Roar can be but at the same time given the new direction of the show I can see people going into the show assuming the worst.Which I personally don't think you should do just because if you do that then your going to be looking for things to hate about the show so i'd suggest going into this show with an open mind and be willing to give this show a fair chance.
Like both Teen Titans Go and Thundercats Roar this show seems to have a focus on comedy and that does mean that I have to talk about the jokes in these two episodes. Which without giving anything away I didn't like that much just because they go for the really obvious joke alot of the time which just isn't funny but then again what I didn't find funny you guys might fund to be funny as hell so take that whatever way you want.
Overall so far this show is just OK which I guess works to it's advantage since alot of shows that take the same approach as this one turn out pretty bad. However at the same time this is coming of a show that alot of people myself included loved and so to see a huge decline in quality is going to come as a bit of a shock to people but I will say that if your interested then check out in but if not your not missing out on anything special and since this show has only just started i'm not going to give this show a rating since it could get better or worse as the show goes on and there might be a review coming I just don't know when that will be.
All images used in this post where gathered from both the My Little Pony fandom wiki page and the Teen Titans Go fandom page if you you want really high quality images I recommend either one of these pages. I would try and make a joke about using these fandom pages to get the images but I honestly cannot think of any and so im sorry but your getting the slandered message saying where they come from instead of one that's fun and hopefully funny.