OMG, they have My Little Pony : Friendship Is Magic on Canadian Netflix now!
And I am so excited about it! This is the most excited I’ve ever been (except for the one time I went GASP!), but really, I have wanted this for so long and it finally happened!
And they have all 91 (holycrap) episodes, so I kind of know what I will be watching for the next like… 33 Netflix hours.
I have wanted to watch the show for aaages, but I didn’t have the fecal concentration (in other words, I didn’t have my shit together) enough to say, download a torrent of the whole thing and stick them on a DVD-R or something.
I could have watched them on this a-here computer, but as y’all know, I don’t like watching things on my desktop. Being online makes me all twitchy like and it is hard for me to just watch something when my every urge is to flick around doing this that and the other in various tabs and windows.
So what I needed was for it to come to where I live, which is Netflix. I watch between 90 and 180 minutes of Netflix streaming content a day, always while I am eating a meal. Being busy eating provides me with the distraction and/or mental energy absorption necessary for me to be able to sit still and watch stuff.
And yes, this twitchiness does worry me a little sometimes. It seems to be a primary symptom of the way the Internet rewires our brains. Everyone I know that spend a significant amount of time online has the same problem.
The Internet makes us so impatient!
Anyhoo, back to the actual topic. MLP : FIM (or milpfim, as absolutely nobody calls it) on Netflix. The really twenty percent cooler thing is that I found My Little Pony : Friendship Is Magic on Netflix on the very day that I finished watching the Bronies documentary… and I wasn’t even looking for it!
I had just reached that point where none of the stuff on my list (formerly the Instant Queue) really appealed to me, so it was time to check out the What’s Popular and the Recommended For You parts of my Netflix feed and add whatever appealed to me.
Even then, it was one of the very last things I found. If I wasn’t so bizaarely and fixatedly thorough and hence incapable of stopping until I have done the WHOLE THING, I probably would never have known.
So clearly, it is my destiny to watch all 91 (holycrap) episodes and become a brony at last!
Everything I knew about bronyship and the show it’s based on made me feel like it was something perfect for little ol me, even before I saw the documentary. I had seen the first two episodes and a few other random episodes before, and I definitely liked what I saw. The show is simply excellent. It has that combination of great characters, sense of humour, and most of all, genuine warmth that makes a show far more than the sum of its parts.
It makes it magic. To me, that’s where the magic lives. All my favorite shows, the ones that have a special place in my heart, like the Muppets, Cheers, Barney Miller, and Night Court, they all have that magic.
And that is the sort of thing that I hope to infuse into my own arts some day.
Speaking of my own arts, I will now set my first hoof into bornyhood and do something incredibly brony, and list the six mane characters in ascending order of how much I identify with them, and why.
Rarity. Nope. Apart from a shared sense of aesthetics, her and I don’t correspond at all. I would have to say she’s my least favorite. Don’t get me wrong, I love all the ponies, but she is just not my kind of person. Pony. Whatever. And is it just me, or does she have entirely the wrong kind of personality to be the spirit of Generosity? It’s like they came up with the characters first, then the idea of the virtues of friendship, and they found a suitable embodiment for five of them and she got the one left over. Plus, honestly, little girls have enough princess types who are obsessed with fashion and beauty and clothes from like, every other show in the universe. They don’t need Rarity.
Rainbow Dash. I debated having her be first because she has a personality that is practically the opposite of mine, but then I thought about it more and I do identify with her brash confidence. It’s not a side of me that comes to the fore very often (yet), but I have always identified with the characters that have a lot of gall. The ones who dare to do things others wouldn’t do because it would be too weird. That’s enough to put her ahead of Rarity for me.
Twilight Sparkle. Oh noes, she’s everybody’s favorite and she’s only third on this list! But seriously, I don’t have anything against her. I just don’t identify with her hyper-achiever personality. I do love that she is intellectual and takes things like education and learning things seriously. And I have sympathy for her highly driven nature. But I am a coaster, not a keener.
Applejack. I really like her. Specifically, I love her no-nonsense approach to life and her willingness to work hard for her family. I adore her determination to keep things grounded in reality and to look at life straight on and deal with it as it is. I identify with that. I just wish I had her fortitude.
Pinkie Pie. No surprise that the embodiment of Laughter would be high on my list. And yes, she can be annoying in her unrelenting perkiness, but I totally identity with having way too much to say and feeling all hyper and giggly and conquering fear through laughter, though I expect my laughter would be a tad more sarcastic than hers. Less “tee hee hee!”, more “Seriously? You expect me to be scared by that?”
But of course, absolutely nobody can compete with…
Fluttershy. She’s shy and sweet and loves animals and is occasionally slightly psychotic. It’s like we’re twins! I just want to cuddle up with her someplace quiet where we can hide from the world and pet bunnies.
That’s all from me for today, folks. Sorry about the brony explosion. I promise this will not become a brony blog. I just had to get this out of my system or I would burst from the happy!
I will learn the ways of the brony, and become one. This I swear!
Talk to you tomorrow, all you wonderful people!