I miss these glorious Saturdays..... · 11:16pm March 4th
I have seen this thread in the Crossover group about saturday morning cartoon openings (that's now deleted) in my feed and it triggered it..... The memory of the Saturdays when a new episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic aired. I miss these Saturdays..... Watching a new episode, waiting for an upload, downloading it, rewatching it 3 - 5 times, writing an analytical review of the episode on my Deviantart account..... Then going onto AssasinMonkey's Picarto channel (or livestream.com, back during Season 4), watching him watch the episode, watching him decide what to draw for it, watching him paint an art piece for the episode, him talking about the new episode and his art piece or sometimes about videogames and tasty food, all while listening to the epic and sometimes sad music he always played on his post-episode art streams, occasionally hearing his cats meowing in the background and Monkey talking to them..... And on some of the weekends, going to sleep when he was not finished with the picture, too tired to keep watching, and then on the next day, on Sunday, coming back to my computer, that I always had left running overnight after a new episode, and seeing that AssasinMonkey still works, still awake, and being astounded over this, how he painted away at a complex art piece the entire night and into late next morning, without any sleep, and then making breakfast and watching him finish the picture and uploading it to his Deviantart while eating breakfast, before he finally went to sleep.....
These glorious Saturday afternoons and evenings, during new seasons, when a new episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic aired..... I miss them. They don't happen anymore. Not even now with Generation 5, because it doesn't air on TV and so there are no livestreams of new episodes and no post-episode art streams by AssasinMonkey anymore..... It's not the same. I went onto AssasinMonkey's Picarto channel and watched the recording of his post-episode art stream for the Season 7 Premiere (which happened belatedly, on the Friday after, because he was at BABSCon during this weekend), one of the last, remaining recordings of his post-episode art streams that can still be found online, and I attempt to download it right now. But rewatching it still wasn't fully the same and it just made me miss them more..... I only learned way too late how to download Picarto stream recordings, only after the show was over, I wish I had learned it sooner and downloaded all of his post-episode art stream recordings.....
I wish I could go back to these times, relive and experience them again, these glorious Saturdays when a new episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic aired..... I miss these times badly.
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I apologize to everyone who got their hopes up about the sequel to "Aunt Millie" that I talked about long ago when they saw that I tagged this blog entry with the story. This blog entry has nothing to do with "Aunt Millie", but this is the story that I connect the most with the Saturdays when a new episode aired, so I had to tag it with it.
Aye. You're far from the only one feeling nostalgia pains. Seeing so much good pony material on YouTube lately has brought on my own feelings.
Saturday mornings for me were staying up to watch the livestream at midnight local time. Being part of the chat was the best part - it brought us together.
We don't have that with Netflix. No broadcast times. No livestream parties.
And G5 just isn't the fire which G4 was.
Long Live G4.
The world/universe that it created has so much potential.
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I'm sorry for the late responses. The last few weeks haven't been good for commenting.
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It's the first time I have nostalgia pains. Not even thinking of shows I watched during my childhood has ever given me such a feeling. It's a mix of sorrow and the strongest longing I ever felt for something. These times are still alive in my heart and it feels like it was yesterday, but at the same time, I feel grief over it that they are gone. And these two feelings take turns with each other, constantly.
I heard people talk about nostalgia pains and about missing great times from the past before, but since I had never experienced it, I couldn't relate. Now I understand. Now I know how it feels.
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Can you show me these videos? I couldn't keep much track of pony videos on YouTube the last few years, even though I learned how to display the search results in chronological order, but hearing that there are still so many great pony videos being made gives me hope that My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic will stay strong for many years to come.
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Into which timezone does this place you? I would figure it out myself, normally, but my mind is too heavy lately to do that kind of thinking.
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I detest the Netflix exclusivity for that reason. That and the fact I'm worrying that Generation 5 doesn't reach enough audience on there. Netflix has millions of subscribers, but can that compete with a freely available TV channel, iTunes, YouTube, other digital sellers and DVDs/Blurays?
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It's going to live on. My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic has reached the same iconic status as "Star Wars", "Star Trek" and "Doctor Who", that's not going to fade anymore and it will keep attracting new fans for at least fifty more years. And I have high hopes that, due to its popularity and success, Hasbro will one day return to G4's universe with Generation 6. Or maybe even with Generation 5 already, we don't know what Hasbro's next plans with it are yet. But either way, Generation 4 will remain popular for a very long time and there will always be a place for new fans, new art and new stories inspired by it.