@TheInterlooper oh sorry, got a little over excited. lol

@TheInterlooper No, not everyone. It just seems like it. Probably because he's just so reprehensible.

Disagreement over politics.

She was Debbie on Shameless, a super show.

That's what I thought. But I never watched the original series, so no frame of reference there.

I enjoyed the original series. But I was much younger then, so maybe my sense of humor has just matured a little.

@TheInterlooper I chat sometimes with this one guy over on Minds, and he identifies as a unicorn and a brony. He posts MLP Friendship Is Magic related stuff on his general Minds channel, and some of what he posted piqued my curiosity, and was interested in seeing firsthand what the clamor was about. One time asked him what the terms "Derpy Hooves" and "PonyBooru" meant, and how he responded kinda made me feel like I was way behind in the times, lol.

While in the beginning I was skeptical and considered the adult fascination over MLP was... questionable to say the least, after doing some more research and watching some episodes online I can somewhat understand the allure and don't pass judgment on the bronies and pegasisters. I reason that the world we currently live in is a twisted and harsh place with alot of ugliness and consistent arguing, and these people have more or less retreated into a fictional world of rainbows and peace in an effort to momentarily get away from said ugliness. In other words, not much different than any other fan base like Star Wars or Game Of Thrones, and most of us have at least one favorite fandom in which we closely follow. For me, aside from Star Wars, would be the Deus Ex universe. Have often wondered what the future holds technological wise, will augmentations as featured in the Deus Ex games become a reality some day soon and drastically improve living conditions, say, some sort of aug upgrades that would help diabetics like me live more normal lives? One thing that initially concerned me over the brony craze was this sexual attraction to cartoon characters by some of the fans, as some of said cartoon characters (in my opinion) represented minors, and that sort of attraction to depictions of minors was concerning. Seems though the main characters these bronies have an attraction to are around age twenty or so, and if that be the case then that's not as concerning.

MLP is a fandom just like any other and has its diehard followers, seems relatively harmless to me and (can't believe I'm saying this) actually mildly entertaining, it appears the main characters have detailed and developed personas, and go through experiences that most of us have in real life. Watched the movie too by the way. With that said, can't call myself a fan, but I can understand why some adults are crazy over that MLP series. Yeah, that conservative father was a riot, can see why you laughed at that part. The documentary was an eyeopener, even guys in the Military are diehard fans of the show, that one was a shocker.

One of the episodes I checked out (think it was season 2 episode 4) was about one of the princess ponies who was trying to adjust to life as a good guy now who had overcome her dark side, and she had a hard time doing so when this other pony was constantly whipping the others into a frenzy for no good reason really. That cracked me up, because it reminded me so much of our current political scene, with all the "chicken littles" out there overreacting and stirring up trouble spreading seeds of doubt.

Thought I'd share this in case you're interested, this site has alot of good movies and television shows, I'd suggest having a good adblocker though as the pop-up ads are numerous, but if you can get past the ads it's worth checking out. The link is to the complete Game Of Thrones series, but you are able to search for any title. If you're on mobile you could download the episodes to your phone, not sure if you could on PC. It took about 20 GBs of data to download every episode of GOT to my Android, but worth it and backed up the downloaded files to an external hard drive. Going to check out that movie Underwater when I get the spare time, looked good. Anyways, here's the link-
[m4uhd.tv]

I agree.