On the subject of shipping of characters from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic or: How the hell can those two go together?:

Well, first a confesson. I'm not personally a fan of LGBT shippings. Now that we got that out of the way, let us disscuss the various shippings in the MLP fandom and what I personally think of them:
First a quick definition of the term shipping, from the website Know Your Meme:

"Shipping is a fandom practice that involves imagining relationships between two fictional characters from a show, movie, or book series. This ranges from canon relationships (ones that appear in the work) to alternate universe scenarios that would be highly unlikely to ever occur in the normal storyline. Shipping can be seen in fanfiction and fan art of the imagined couplings."

In english, that means that two characters in a show (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic for example) are seen by fans of said show to romantically involved.


In the general fandom of MLP, there seems to be an increibly high amount of Girl/Girl shippings. Why is that you may ask? Here are three reasons:


1. Most of the characters of the show are girls. If out of 10 people, 9 of them are girls, most fan shippings will be girl on girl, it's just a matter of statistics. (This view I think is the most accurate)


2. Most of the fans of this show are young adult males, and as we all know most males of the age group of 16-24  REALLY like lesbians, no matter what. (Yeah, I don't know why ether)


3. It's just cause most bronies are perverts who live in they're mothers basement. (This view I DON'T think is the reason)

I shall now list several fandom parings and give my own personal opinion on them:

AppleDash (Rainbow Dash and Applejack):

Reason for being prevalent: The two characters are often shown to be friends in the show itself, but somewhat contentious friends. This, along with the running joke of Rainbow Dash being lesbian (due to her tomboyish nature and the fact that her mane is rainbow colored). But when asked said question, Lauren Faust (creator and executive producer for the show) responded with the following:

"nowhere in the show is her sexual orientation ever referenced....assuming [tomboys] are lesbians is extremely unfair to both straight and lesbian tomboys"

I happen to agree with Mrs. Faust.

Reason for me not being a fan: I personally don't think Applejack and Rainbow Dash are lesbian for the reasons listed above, and by this point, it seems to be a cliche.

Lyra/Bon-Bon:

Reason for being prevalent: These two characters are often seen in the background of the show standing next to each other. That's it. Really.

Reason for me not being a fan: For the reasons listed above. And logically, if you didn't know me at all and I just saw me sitting next to my brother, would you think I was gay? No. You're first thought would probobly be: "Why in hell does that nerd in the glasses have hair like Kramer from Sienfield?"

Someone actually made a comic pointed out the bad logic envolved with the whole Lyra and Bon-Bon shipping thing:

See what I mean?

FlutterMac (Fluttershy and Big Macintosh):

Yes, it is just as cute as it looks.

Reason for prevalence: They both seem to be the most soft-spoken characters in the show, Fluttershy mostly talking barily over a whisper and Big Mac rarely saying anything more than "Eeup" and "Nope". Even though in the show I don't believe they've even shared the screen together for more than two seconds.

For odvious reasons there are MANY more shippings out there I could talk about, so I'll soon be doing a video dedicated to said shippings.

Thanks, FabinHim

Kung Fu Fail by Nat4

For those of you who do not know, I have a particular dislike to DreamWorks computer-animated films. The best film they've ever made that was animated was The Prince of Egypt. The closet they've come to that in these later years are Over the Hedge and Madagascar. Kung Fu Panda was not one of those of films. A story  that could have been good was ruined by this "find yourself" philosophy. The sequel, Kung  Fu Panda 2, does offer more but just like the original falls flat.

The story for this film is that Po (Jack Black) is trying to discover who his true parents are due to a vision he had while fighting some thieves whilst him and the Furious Five try to stop Lord Shen (Gary Oldman) from destroying  China. Okay, good premise. But this is DreamWorks, the same guys who brought us Shrek. Knowing the first film, it's bound to have an "inner peace" philosophy, kung fu action and a disappointing payoff.  But this film does two things different from the first film that I like:

ONE: Po discovers he was adopted by a duck (the first film never explained it) and Po now want's to find his true parent hood. This idea and plot line is not only good but actually very intriguing. According to my sister, when she saw the flashback of Po's parents saving him she called it "Sophie's Choice with pandas!" (Though not as sad as it sounds but still.) By the end you feel happy that Po, knowing the truth, still chooses to stay with his dad. It's not only satisfying but it shows Po has grown as a character. But then the film basically gives us the middle-finger by having Po's father alive in the last shot, eradicating any character development Po had.

Now my favorite part of the movie:

TWO: The villain. Lord Shen is not only awesome (as if having the voice of Gary Oldman wasn't enough), he's also sympathetic. In the begging we are told that Shen's wanted to use gunpowder as a weapon and that a soothsayer (who I'll get into later) told his parents that he would be defeated by a panda. Thus, Shen went and killed the panda's (it just happens to be where Po was from). His parents banished him and thus cue our antagonist. You do feel for Shen and Gary Oldman helps carry the emotion whilst also delivering every line awesomely (even the really cheesy ones.) And how do they kill Shen: by having a cannon fall on him and blow up. This really irritates me but I've probably already explained why.

The Furious Five are still cool and we luckily have a 24 minute short film Secrets of the Furious Five that explains their origins in great detail. Hans Zimmer and John Powell (both veteran composers) once again deliver a good score and mix chinese and orchestral instruments together great (it's also what made the first film's music great.)

The Soothsayer (voiced by Michelle Yeoh who you may remember from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) who follows Shen around has no purpose then to point out the painfully obvious and the action and animation really aren't as cool as the first film. I don't like this or it's predecessor, but at least this tried (though it failed.) 

I'd give this film a rating of 1.5 out of 4.

Well, this is my first post to my first blog. The blog's purpose? Me and my brothers random ramblings, movie reviews and discussions about life, film, ponies and stuff.