It was made by people who made the best kids' shows of the 90s.

It's a variety of factors. Personally, I like both the storytelling style, with its rich, diverse characters, and the aesthetic style, with its colorful character and setting designs.

It doesn't really have a continuous story. You see occasional bits of continuity (characters reading books they were introduced to in previous episodes, etc.), but for the most part each episode tells a unique and self-contained story.

If it is a continuous story, then some of the parts certainly aren't told in order, as an autumn-themed episode in the first season comes two episodes after a winter-themed episode, and there's no implication that it takes place over half a year later.

Also, it's not just the show. It's the community, with their constant music and comics and artwork and stories and whatever, that keeps a lot of bronies coming back for more, I believe.

power rangers stopped having a continous story around the turn of the centruy if I remember correctly, give or take a few years.

The plot.

Everything.

The songs.

Also Fluttershy. MLP has Fluttershy. That makes it good.

Otherwise, MLP isn't really as amazing as it's often stated to be. It's a great cartoon, but there are a lot of other great/good cartoons going around these days. Legend of Korra, Thundercats, Dan Vs, Adventure Time, Regular Show, etc. Bronies tend to praise FiM as a series of immaculate depth and unique stature as "a decent cartoon," because they are bronies. But, subjectively speaking, it isn't that big a deal. Not everyone must like it and not everyone must try it out.

Though...I don't know exactly how that rant is very relevant...

The plot.

This.

It's better than reading your blog. :3

It's better than reading your blog. :3

I love you too.

It's better than reading your blog. :3

Sadly, I can't really type the best possible response to that on BZPower.

As someone who HATES THAT DANG SHOW SO MUCH AFDSGH, basically what Panty Anarchy said. I can see what others see in it, but I don't like it myself.

Why are you so fixated on hating on MLP? I used to do that, as you can see in a few of my blog entries, but then I realized that people can like things I don't like and that's OK. In fact, I'm ashamed of myself for having acted that way; I'm more than used to putting up with people insulting my hobbies; I'm not entitled to act like them.

It was like this thing that frontpaged on content aggregator website about a month ago, this flash game about this mom trying to get her family to try WoW - the guy who wrote it had issues, and it showed. In the game, his way was the ONLY way. Physical abuse [!!!] was OK, since it was all towards the end goal of getting her family to play WoW. I read through the game's source code - interspersed throughout it in the form of comments was this guy's experiences about how others don't share his hobbies; it wasn't bad at first (I've had experiences like the ones detailed in the beginning, about not being able to easily relate to peers due to different interests) but culminated in a rant about how "normals" were intrinsically inferior because his hobbies (video games) are superior, and how they're all stupid and he's a genius [!!!].

You're not nearly as bad as that guy, but be careful.

-Canama

Canama:

Dude? Are you OK? Seriously, the hyperbole is a bit excessive in response to a guy who made a joke. M_o_Z is just asking what people like in a show (presumably to determine whether he should give it a shot), and a few people responded with a bit of humor.

(I can't even tell who you're trying to respond to anyway, but either way Grant's joke doesn't deserve an NSFBZP response, nor does a person asking about the merit of a show.)

You can't really talk to people about how you've gotten better at accepting viewpoints when you feel the need to make a comparison to someone beating her family. If anything, your advice looks bizarrely alarmist and straight-out wrong.

To make things clear, I was just curious. I have no intention of getting into MLP (except maybe observing the animation style), but I wasn't hating on it either.