Continuing musing on Too Many Pinkie Pies (TMPP) from yesterday. Spoilers below. (Also, a major spoiler for Paolo Bacigalupi’s “Pop Squad” short story!) The purpose of art is to create an emotional experience for your audience. With that in mind, maybe Dave Polsky (writer of this episode, yes I did just look it up) did exactly the right thing. By the time Season Three was in production it was already well known that a sizable portion of the MLP viewership was/is composed of people in their 20s and 30s. If, as I previously suggested, this episode had dodged the extermination bullet by distributing the Pinkies across Equestria I wouldn’t have noticed – just another kid gimmick on a kid’s show. And I’ve read enough GrimDark/pragmatic/survivalist stories about the horror of having to kill someone to prevent ecological collapse that seeing yet another one wouldn’t really affect me. I read Bacigalupi’s “Pop Squad” – about a man whose job it is to kill unlicensed children so the world doesn’t collapse under the weight of overpopulation - and wasn’t very bothered. I mean, it was good, but it wasn’t “The Fluted Girl”-level of awesome.
Consent in Art
Consent in Art
Consent in Art
Continuing musing on Too Many Pinkie Pies (TMPP) from yesterday. Spoilers below. (Also, a major spoiler for Paolo Bacigalupi’s “Pop Squad” short story!) The purpose of art is to create an emotional experience for your audience. With that in mind, maybe Dave Polsky (writer of this episode, yes I did just look it up) did exactly the right thing. By the time Season Three was in production it was already well known that a sizable portion of the MLP viewership was/is composed of people in their 20s and 30s. If, as I previously suggested, this episode had dodged the extermination bullet by distributing the Pinkies across Equestria I wouldn’t have noticed – just another kid gimmick on a kid’s show. And I’ve read enough GrimDark/pragmatic/survivalist stories about the horror of having to kill someone to prevent ecological collapse that seeing yet another one wouldn’t really affect me. I read Bacigalupi’s “Pop Squad” – about a man whose job it is to kill unlicensed children so the world doesn’t collapse under the weight of overpopulation - and wasn’t very bothered. I mean, it was good, but it wasn’t “The Fluted Girl”-level of awesome.