I'm absolutely convinced that many of those similarities aren't coincidences at all. Twilight Sparkle is pretty much what Hermione Granger would be if Hermione were a purple unicorn, right down to the flipping out about homework and insistence on being logical. She's more like Harry at times: witness her determination to go it alone, vs. her friends' insistence that they will not even consider it. Celestia has the annoyingly Dumbledore-ish habit of leaving her pupils to solve world-destroying problems, then coming by later to explain everything and twinkle at them. She even has a phoenix for a pet.
Straight-haired Pinkie Pie is funny as Snape, but I think she actually echoes Luna Lovegood sometimes, especially the narration during the running of the leaves. Fluttershy actually appears along with Hagrid on the TV Tropes page for Fluffy Tamer. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FluffyTamer .
I don't think it's a bad thing; it's only one element of an original show that's inspired by many different things, and it's completely reworked into its own thing. I think it's a strength and not a weakness.
Oddly, Dash is the one character I had to think long and hard for a parallel. The closest I could come up with was Fred and George, although she certainly seems pretty good at flying!
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Date: 2012-06-16 07:56 pm (UTC)I'm absolutely convinced that many of those similarities aren't coincidences at all. Twilight Sparkle is pretty much what Hermione Granger would be if Hermione were a purple unicorn, right down to the flipping out about homework and insistence on being logical. She's more like Harry at times: witness her determination to go it alone, vs. her friends' insistence that they will not even consider it. Celestia has the annoyingly Dumbledore-ish habit of leaving her pupils to solve world-destroying problems, then coming by later to explain everything and twinkle at them. She even has a phoenix for a pet.
Straight-haired Pinkie Pie is funny as Snape, but I think she actually echoes Luna Lovegood sometimes, especially the narration during the running of the leaves. Fluttershy actually appears along with Hagrid on the TV Tropes page for Fluffy Tamer. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FluffyTamer .
I don't think it's a bad thing; it's only one element of an original show that's inspired by many different things, and it's completely reworked into its own thing. I think it's a strength and not a weakness.
Oddly, Dash is the one character I had to think long and hard for a parallel. The closest I could come up with was Fred and George, although she certainly seems pretty good at flying!