Reviews WebVideo / Friendship Is Witchcraft

Good... until you watch any other MLP abridged series

At first I thought the series was funny. I thought the characters were good, but then I realised that most characters were the same characters from the original show just given out of place backstories that did nothing to influence their personalities. And the characters that do have their personalities changed? Their personalities are exaggerated. Twilight utterly idolises Celestia to the point of emulating her, Rainbow Dash is a single-minded, thick, egotist. Luna or "Molestia" (hurr-hurr) is socially awkward to the point that it's outright painful and she sounds like Stitch if he was German and was learning English as a second language. The only exception to this is Pinkie who is sadly the most fleshed out character. Applejack and Rarity are basically the same as they were in the show (save for something about a war that only ever gets used to set up a joke) And Fluttershy. Try taking your favourite food and trying to mentally make it unappetizing without altering any qualities of the food, it's difficult, but that didn't stop them from doing it with Fluttershy and making a massive hash of it. She is still quiet, she is still a pushover. And she's now a fucking psychopath. The voices sound similar to the original characters which makes the characters seem more like their originals which clashes with characters like Fluttershy and makes Twilight and Rainbow Dash the two most annoying characters in the damn series. There are single lines in the show that make me laugh still but a few good lines won't make a production good. Some parts of the overall story were actually interesting (The smooze cult in particular) But that doesn't help when all the characters are bland (with one exception) a lot of the lines are cringe-worthy and it pales all around to almost every other MLP abridged series out there.