{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Rainbow Dash Network","provider_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/","type":"link","title":"Pony (pony)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-14 14:10:21 UTC","author_name":"Pony (pony)","author_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/pony","url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/notice\/3292470","html":"I remember back in 2011 over a year before I watched FiM. I saw a clip of the intro and was like.. <i>why do they always have to make the characters all iconic and junk?<\/i> It reminded me too much of one of the remakes of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by which I'd been disappointed, and I thought, <i>oh great, another childhood favorite mangled by poor writing and meh animation.. nice character designs though.. reminds me of PPG.<\/i> Of course, then I didn't know how mangled MLP had already been by generation 3, and I didn't know that one of the former PPG writers was directing this new version. When I finally sat down and watched the first two episodes I was hooked. #<span class=\"tag\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/tag\/bronyconversion\" rel=\"tag\">bronyconversion<\/a><\/span>"}