Fox News, Like Any Cartoon Villain, Threatened By Pastel Ponies And Friendship

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Fox News has once again gallumphed into the Culture Wars, this time with a story fretting that the newest iteration of Hasbro's My Little Pony TV and toy franchise might be tainted with "wokeness," making it utterly unfit entertainment for the grandchildren of Fox News viewers. You see, after the previous 2010 to 2019 run of "My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic," which brought the world Bronies and a whole bunch of puzzling illustrations on Wonkette, Hasbro has rebooted the pony line a fifth time, this time with a computer-animated movie on Netflix called "My Little Pony: A New Generation," to be followed sometime next year with a TV series featuring the characters from the 90-minute movie.

What makes it "woke"? The ponies in the movie, like characters in a lot of kidvid, overcome their initial distrust and learn to work together, and even more horrifyingly, they refuse to trust in the paranoid rants of a xenophobic populist who pursues power for his own sake.

OK, gosh, if you look at it that way, maybe Fox News is right to be upset.

The plot is fairly standard animation-fantasy stuff, and yes, I suppose this may contain spoilers if you think a by-the-numbers kid show can be spoiled: A thousand years after the events of "Friendship Is Magic," ponykind is scattered and tribal. Unicorn ponies have lost their magic, pegasus ponies can no longer fly, and earth ponies are actually doing OK because they didn't do a lot of magic to start with. The action centers on earth pony Sunny, voiced by Vanessa Hudgens, who thanks to historical research by her dad (voiced by friend o' Wonkette Michael McKean) is the only earth pony who knows that all ponies ought to be friends, not enemies.

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