Star Strike's Descent Into MADNESS! 

Remember when this series was advertised to be more adult and mature than G4 was? Oh what could have been....

Do you guys remember back when we had genuine hope that this generation would be good

He went from "Positive and Exited for G5" to "Please be good PLEASE" to "... GRWUAAAAAAH!!!!"

“How do cutie marks work in this world?” Well Star Strike, it works however the writers want them to work, and not even they know themselves, at this point.

G5 is feels like High Guardian Spice, the only difference being that HGS did not have legancy to tarnish. I honestly had more fun watching random G1 episodes, in between chapters, than actually watching the chapters itself.

I think the biggest issue is the writing. Like the animation could be excuse considering this was made on a netflix budget, but everything is all over the place and inconsitent story wise!

Part of me wonders if ChatGPT was the true writer of G5, with how it forgets its own plot and rushes through it.

As a warrior cat fan… yeah I saw this coming. Any warrior cat fan can agree that just like the series, keeping something going for too long when there’s clearly no more ideas to work on that is not only somewhat original but also good is a recipe for disaster

Truly is sad seeing what this series has become. Defenders blame others criticisms for being g4 purists or whatever nonsense, the thing is, a good majority actually liked g5 when it started with the movie and where excited for its potential. But that potential is forever lost after the movie. Which is why so many just lost their hope for it. But hey, they can keep calling us g4 purists lol… The true tragedy of g5 is not for living up the success g4, the true tragedy is that it couldn’t live up to its own potential Ever since chapter 6, I just give up on g5 entirely, I tried being positive but I guess it wasn’t enough to make the show any better

G5's continuity is more chaotic than even Discord himself

Honestly I still wouldn't have had a problem with G5 even after Chapter 6 if it wasn't for the fact that it canonically is in the same universe as G4. Unless they pull a "this is a Starlight Glimmer alternate timeline" at some point then it's really just taking everything we loved about G4 and tearing it down with Twilight carrying an idiot ball the size of the moon. It's sad to see what's become of a franchise that really hit such a high bar with G4.

I loved My Little Pony new generation at the beginning, I was so excited for the series, when it came out I tried hard to like it but I couldn't 😭

G5s plot got more holes than a cheese factory

Okay, I imagine making G5 is like this (I doubt you’ll read all this though): Imagine a kid trying to build a block tower, but he doesn’t know what to do because he doesn’t have enough blocks so he takes the blocks from another kids tower to make his bigger, and as he takes more blocks away, the other kid’s tower is slowly collapsing, only making it pointless for him to build in the first place.

On a scale from Dragons: The Nine Realms to The Legend of Korra, Make Your Mark is a solid Star Wars Sequel Trilogy

“It’s so popular with the target demographic” Where?? Literally where? If it was popular then why tf is there barely any merchandise or hype around it. I legit see a ton of kids talking about G4 but literally barely any talking about G5. Even kids know it isn’t good and the bad marketing doesn’t help with that 😭

He become so mad that he jumped from pixel to 2D art.

Hitch destroying the crystals would've been a good thing, I believe it holds them back

Ah yes, The descent into madness, This is the stuff I subscribed for!

The story of how G5 brutaly beated to death the continuity and moral of G4. Like, you know all of that stuff about friendship being magic and solving problems ? Well fuck this none of what Twilight created lasted for more than a hundred years, Spike is alive and had to see everything that he had helped to build being destroyed. And other Species... what's that?

So you see, everyone, this… this is why many people are critical in their analysis and critique of media. Most people want shows/books/movies to be good because we can appreciate the effort it takes to make something function, it’s not easy feat. This show, as well as many…. MANY OTHERS are being dunked on by regulars and fans alike for a lot of nonsense that are expected to “aCcEpT tHiS! DoN’t AsK qUeStIoNs! It’S gOoD!” We all want good things and simply accepting what they give us, especially when it’s so poorly written just shows how fair critiquing any work is. Keep up the great work!

This series was super sad to me. I was really hoping that a beloved franchise such as this would receive more love then it got, but they didn't seem to care that much

"Somewhere, Faust is weeping because of you" "You will not be missed" Please, let's all just go back to G4 Bruh went from "WHOOOOOOO LET'S GOOOOO" To "My hooves shall relish ending you HERE. AND. NOW!"

Imagine Lauren Faust's reaction to G5...

To be fair, in 2021 everyone was super hyped for g5 simply because it was better by comparison to the most recent official pony content (at the time), pony life 🤮 Sometimes I feel like hasbro just wants to kill the fandom and all the hype

Remember when everyone was hyped for G5 and genuinely had hope for it to be good? Not as good as G4, but enough to be decent to watch? Yeah, me too.

I got banned from Equestria Daily for reacting negatively to the movie and the first trailers for the show. Vindication is bittersweet, ain't it?

Dang, I don't which CGI Sequel-Spinoff Series airing on Netflix ruined the legacy of their predecessors worse. My Little Pony: Make Your Mark? or How To Train Your Dragon: The Nine Realms? Take your poison. 🦄💀🐉

I feel like it should've been better if G5 was it's own universe, like how G4 was

Guys I have an idea that will improve all of G5 and make all its continuity errors better and it is in our hands : IGNORE IT EVER HAPPENED 😂

Them in the movie:💯🥶👍 Them in the show:😐🥱😮‍💨

I guess we just love torturing ourselves on what COULD have been and dealing with what G5 ACTUALLY is.

Although there is sooooo many flaws with opaline, if we pretend that she was better made villan and they actually kept her as a serious issue then i actually quite like the misty arc. Its just a shame they made opaline go from Powerful Threat to stupid joke. At least sparky's "do anything sneeze" is somewhat justified later on with different dragonfire magic and his being to change and transform things or whatever nonsense it was the writers came up with. We can pretend this G5 takes place in an alternative universe with a slightly altered G4 to try fix some of holes and to protect our g4 from being destroyed by any issues of g5.

14:00 Well, I said it multiple times, and I'll say it again: No character can ever be smarter than its writer :q

It seems to me that the writers deliberately tried to make everything as bad as possible, to anger the fans. There is no other way for me to explain why everything is so terrible.

Does anyone remember when leaked content came out, one of the content was the original idea of using Earth Pony Twilight and her friends looking a little different but just enough so that they weren’t they’re MLP:FIM selves? It was almost like they were thinking of an alternate universe thing. I’d be intrigued to know what the plan was before this mess.

I thought they may have intentionally dumbed it down to "look, brightly colored ponies and sparkly magic!" To shake us Bronies off and just appeal to 4yr-olds and their parents' paychecks. But they keep throwing in elements of g4 to draw us back in. So I've come to the conclusion that they want our money but not our viewership or participation in the show and this Fandom. I mean, I'll admit, I've got a few g5 toys. I might be getting rid of some though. 🤔 some kid in Goodwill might love them like I once did. 😔

Donuts aren't bread. Often they're more cake-like.

The main problem is the writing, everything else is at least passable. They just need to purge the writing team

It’s sad how G5 fell, let alone how fast it did. I hate how so many fans of G5 are trying to shut fans of G4 up by saying we’re just too biased towards it. No. This was G5’s fault. We weren’t the ones to decide making this a continuation of G4. So, we should expect about the same quality as G4. That alone isn’t a terrible decision, it just depends on the execution, which to most, including myself was terribly done. This was undoubtedly my biggest disappointment ever as G4 is my favorite show of all time. I used to blindly hate it at first, but grew to love it when I gave it a chance. I was nervous about G5, until the movie came out and I was so excited to see the future of this generation, only to be let down over and over again. At this point, G5 isn’t canon in my mind. I know TYT is continuing, but I’ve already given this series enough chances. G5 will be forgotten while G4 will live on forever ❤

"Lets think happy thoughts and we don't die"😂

MLP would've been better as a show about warfare and politics than continously teaching about friendship and harmony every single time.

I gotta say, i may actually learn some writing tips form this show(still pretty young not old enough for a scriptwriting job, or a cartoon show creator for that matter), idk if i'll update this list or not so here's the first: -Do NOT pull out the IDIOT BALL: this only makes sense if its someting like "character X is drunk, he's the type that turns stupid" or played completely for laughs, even then don't overuse this trope too much. Thanks MYM, i now know what NOT to do :D

This. This is why I don't watch G5. Watching these videos and discovering all the continuity errors, add on the phones and other technology that get rid of a type of comfort that G4 had... Generation 4 for life. (And yes, I know phones appeared in G4, but in acceptable areas: Discord, and Equestria Girls.)

The episode where the moral was to let children (Sparky) do whatever they want was the most aggregious This is a big problem nowadays, why would you try to make it worse

I can sum G5 up in a few words. Baby time adventures. Hasbro just wants a show for little kids.

It's starting to come clear that the show is now meant for marketing.....seeing how there's so many split ends between the game the tell your tale to make your mark to the film version of g5 to the still attached to the g4 show- Like- why? You can have your merchandise go through the roof if you ACTUALLY cared about the plot. But they seriously just don't, the don't respect twilight whatsoever either or spike....this is not only shameful to the fandom but to the developers of g4 who NAILED in my opinion mostly EVERY! SINGLE! FREAKING EPISODE! there's always a good wrap in the episodes and the characters are actually good. These characters? Are idiots. I hate Sunny.

Yea I am very glad I never watched any of the g5 stuff other than the first movie.

...Honestly, at this rate I'm kinda wondering if Hasbro is trying to press a big undo button on MLP having so many adult fans from G4... by making the G5 writing insufferable if you're not six.

Am I the only one who just tries not to see G5 as canon to the MLP timeline?

A part of me still hopes that G5 will end with another high budget Netflix movie, as broken as the world building is, I think this is the best way to send off this generation.

This is by far one of the funniest videos I've ever watched from you! I do hope there will be another MLP though. Hopefully it won't make us descend into madness Dx Tysm for taking the time to create this video, it's still me giggling!

11:44 Communist ponies. Starlight Glimmer would be proud.

Okay first of all, I really really respect you for doing something you hate Also IS THERE ACTUALLY A FLIPPING CHAPTER 7

We're almost through G5's first Phase/Season, took us long enough. I have high hopes, but every new episode and chapter became pretty hit or miss whether it was the fact I expected to have them delve into world building or character developments when they could've or the fact there was inconsistency. I want to learn about these dragons as characters, or if Opaline will somehow find a way to return, heck let Allura, the Pippsqueak trio, or even Sprout get their own episode, anything!

This is was a realy a cool journey

This is why I’m glad I never watched this (I don’t have Netflix). The movie was awesome and they could’ve done so much more with moving the plot forward, maybe focus on the struggles with magic being back which they probably don’t touch on much.

10:50 bro so done😂

Ngl zip would be a better leader/alicorn then sunny

I honestly want all my time spent watching this abysmal series BACK. Literally want a refund. Doing literally anything else would have been more worthwhile.

Welp at least you are free now. You never have to worry about this series again.

For the love of god I hope after a suffering decade G6 could at least half-decent.

I had so many hopes back then

At least we got to see an evolution of your editing and voice quality

I still hate so much that Gen 5 has good ideas sure a little iffy and there with them ideas but COULD BE SO GOOD! But the writing sucks so badly that even with the good ideas it burns them It's just so disappointing....

3:34 I've been writing off a lot of your criticism thus far, but this is actually a good point. The windies are already a stupid concept, because no one should need a gun to their head to be a good person, but these crystals sound like that times a thousand. It also perpetuates the asinine idea that anyone who raises their voice is automatically wrong, something we saw G4 do occasionally. This is not a fun world; if you bring up that someone is abusing you, you cause armageddon. Absurd. It's very disappointing to see G5 making the same mistakes at greater magnitude 6:20 this is another very good point

I too had my expectations surpassed by A New Generation. But over the Make your Mark series I've had my hopes sink as the continuity errors piled up and the big questions either went unanswered or had stupid answers. The complete redesign of the dragons in chapter 6 was the last straw for me. I think the show has been such a disaster the best, if not only way, to fix it is to declare everything after A New Generation non-cannon and start again with a new show set right after the movie. Recently I got into a conversation with another MLP fan and they vehemently defended EVERYTHING in MYM! Saying that everything did make sense if you watched the show and that it was easy to fill in the gaps and infer what happened! Even that, since there were a few continuity errors in G4, that makes it OK to make as many as they want in G5.

11:44 "We're crooks" that somehow made me laugh a lot

Im usually iffy when I see things that I knew for a long time change but I would eventually get over it. but when I first saw the teaser for g5 it felt more like as gut feeling that something was bound to go wrong and I hoped that it was just paranoia. of course only to see g5 go through a downward spiral of copouts and wasted potential

Honestly I am in the process of starting a g6 but it will probably take a couple of years, after I finish my remake of MLP book that goes over the entirety of the series with the focus on Twilight, also I am no animator so.

Just found your video after I saw a clip of Spike returning and saying "You lost magic on your own? I'm going back to sleep..." and I was thinking... what? I didn't watch the movie and saw reviews and learning about the plot and world-building I had a feeling in my gut that G5 wasn't going to be good as it undermines G4's lore and story and it looks like I was right given when I've seen from here. Seeing it wasn't THAT long between G4 and G5 with that elderly pony being from when Equestria was Equestria and the changing of how cutie marks worked. Yeah, it did more harm than good to the overall story. G5 should've been it's own continuity at least and own world-building. I believe all the other Generations were separate from each other. I enjoyed MLP: FiM and still love it and though I didn't care or believe G5 would be better than G4 or at least good enough on its own, I feel bad for the people who were looking forward to it and hoping it was good.

While the MYM show did have massive plot holes and dumb characters and little substance, I did have the best time watching StarStrike go insane. Seriously, I was laughing SO hard as he pointed out all the ways this show makes no sense.

that comic panel looks like a friendship is witchcraft fan comic, what on earth

Yeah if you combine all chapters together of mlp g5 it feels like a bad fanfic or a first draft of someone's English assignment

It was hilarious watching you go from super hopeful of G5’s story to absolutely hating the incredible stupidity of it. P.S also to anyone reading this watch 14:43 at 2x speed it’s funny

you got out at the right time, just watched episode 2 of season 2 of tell your tale, it had what you hate in abundance, stupitidy and solving all problems with magic.

This is why I decided that this series is an ultimate universe that has no actual connection to G4

Brownies in October 2021: Can't wait for more Generation 5 installments Brownies post 2022: Help, I'm dying inside.

StarStrike: I am with you on literally everything you just said....

I know I might be late to make my theory but I have always wondered about the magic and Twilight Sparkle. For one the reason why the ponies only have half of their magic and one cutie mark is because of the magic leaking into the human world. And two I thought Twilight in the hologram was the tree of magic since this wouldn’t be the first time the tree has done something like this. Also, I don't know if this cannon or not but I’m pretty sure there are three types of alicorns in Equestrian, The first is the alicorn that borrows magic (Sunny Starscout, Sunset Shimmer, etc.) Then there is the alicorn that earned their wings (Twilight, Celestia, Luna, maybe Cadence), and the last one is the alicorn who was born with a horn and wings (Flurry Heart) means that the who was born an alicorn is truly royalty.

The show may be more for infants. No questioning, no rationalization, no train of thought. Mystery solved

The whole time I'm watching this, im just thinking "Star Strike slowly discovers how corporations work, money first, actual story later"

Jazz's disappearing ears was explained by Blacl Gryph0n, in bronies react bridleswood edition, the executives decided that she looked better without ears, so this isn't a animation mistake, it's actually on purpose!

This is what happens when you ride the coat tails of a previous generation and change everything about it.

I just don't understand why the characters behave like 5 year old kids !! You are right they are doomed so childish magic is going crazy in this world 😂 G4 is the best and more mature

Wait off topic but I just realized something, sunny is basically a fake alicorn, does than make her rcta😭 Ok that was a joke here is what I really want to say: bro I'm so disappointed in g5 if I could change 1 thing about the show (other than that ugly stupid fake dragon that doesn't even make sense) I'd choose it to be a separate universe from g4, instead of Twilight doing all of the things, it would be a mysterious alicorn, it would solve most of the problems. I also don't like how its way less dark than g4, even if it's supposed to be "for kids" they were supposed to put the classic nightmare fuels, and also how they got their cutie marks, sunny got it for freaking selling lemonade and Twilight got it from HATCHING A DRAGON EGG. not to even mention that the cutie mark crusaders had to wait FIVE SEASONS to get their cutie marks, g5 cutie marks just work like: "oh I'm being honest *gets cutie mark*" I do NOT view it as canon and never will (unless they do a whole rebrand to g5)

Why did anyone expect anything good from this show,from g5 ,like we should just stop watching it and wait tell the next generation ,that's what I'm doing

The legends say he's still on recovery from his breakdown... 😜

I couldn't even complete the series because it was so bad. I miss g4

Hearing your exasperated words along with the marestream spinning in a circle was just so funny to me 10:32

Am I the only one who predicted from the get go that g5 would be worse tham g4 After few episodes I already lost hope I heard movie was amazing so I watched it It was mid for me but decent But after the movie I watched some episodes and I gave up Oh well I hope that g6 or next chapter will be better(but I doubt it)

Dont worry man MYM is officialy death... I should cry but I don't even feel sorry for it, except for the characters who had the misfortune of belonging to this show.

I don't understand how gen 4 is "ancient Equestria" they literally had pop star ponies...

Wow they really didn’t think any of that through did they? Even g4 had a plan at least. Every time I go and watch any other movie ever I notice that the writers and creative team takes time to make it at the very least enjoyable but no g5 does not do that. And I only continued watching the show because there were actually a few things that I think made it a little good, and there is one thing above all else when your making a sequel DON’T just throw away all logic and reasoning from the show or movie you are making the sequel for.

I got an idea travel back in time to Skyros find baby opaline and (ties up noose to symbolize hangin her) Everyone’s intended reaction and Starstrike:”first of all,that’s horrible!” Me” 😡It’s Opaline!!’

Every single G4 Reference not longer appear in the Show exept Sunnys Bag, some Papers and the Twilight Cutiemark Window once at the End. No Mane 6 Figures, no Spike Plush, no Celestia Flag, no Rainbow Dash Poster, no Starsquirl Painting, Twilight Feather or any other Stuff. Maybe Sunny has store them in boxes like the one with the Cutiemark Post It, maybe most was destroyed. Most of that Stuff would usualy be in a Museum, not in some Ponys Priveta Home, but maybe the G5 Ponys have no interest in the Past. Cadance, Twilight and Flurry should still be arround after just around 300 Years, like Spike and Discord. The Factory was maybe never owned by Sprouts Mom but maybe was rented and later abandoned because no Pony longer wanted their Products. By the way, they have made celestia wrong, Clestia had pink hair as she was young and similar to Lunas and Twilights it has change over Time.

Friendship is Magic was far better than G5.

At this point I'm just waiting for a G6 and hope for the best. This video is amazing by the way, I really enjoy watching your videos!

Almost halfway through the video and I'm like "There was a video game?! Hah?!"

Wait...what happened in the video game?? I always wondered why Sprout's plotline got dropped like a hot potato.