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I\'m all for cleaning up certain pages, but I\'m not familiar with the MLP stories, so I\'ll leave the specifics to other people. What you describe does sound reasonable though, less \
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I\\\'m all for cleaning up certain pages, but I\\\'m not familiar with the MLP stories, so I\\\'ll leave the specifics to other people. What you describe does sound reasonable though, less \\\"broken aesop\\\" and more \\\"poorly delivered aesop\\\", perhaps.

A broken aesop, as I understand it, should very obviously be the show or book or its characters delivering a message supporting one lesson, while AT THE SAME TIME either doing the opposite or inadvertantly proving their own message false.
i.e. The GI Joes spend an entire episode fighting COBRA with guns and tanks and missiles, then stop to deliver an anti-violence message.

I would say that for a show as episodic as the one in question, different episodes should be considered entirely different strories, which makes this much more a case of Aesop Amnesia. It IS (theoretically) a children\\\'s show, afterall, and there is going to be some stuff just done for comedy or background action that the writers wheren\\\'t anticipating being disected season-by-season by adults.
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I\'m all for cleaning up certain pages, but I\'m not familiar with the MLP stories, so I\'ll leave the specifics to other people. What you describe does sound reasonable though, less \
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I\\\'m all for cleaning up certain pages, but I\\\'m not familiar with the MLP stories, so I\\\'ll leave the specifics to other people. What you describe does sound reasonable though, less \\\"broken aesop\\\" and more \\\"poorly delivered aesop\\\", perhaps.

A broken aesop, as I understand it, should very obviously be the show or book or its characters delivering a message supporting one lesson, while AT THE SAME TIME either doing the opposite or inadvertantly proving their own message false.
i.e. The GI Joes spend an entire episode fighting COBRA with guns and tanks and missiles, then stop to deliver an anti-violence message.

I would say that for a show as episodic as the one in question, then different different episodes should be considered entirely different strories, which makes this much more a case of Aesop Amnesia. It IS (theoretically) a children\\\'s show, afterall, and there is going to be some stuff just done for comedy or background action that the writers wheren\\\'t anticipating being disected season-by-season by adults.
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I\'m all for cleaning up certain pages, but I\'m not familiar with the MLP stories, so I\'ll leave the specifics to other people. What you describe does sound reasonable though, less \
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I\\\'m all for cleaning up certain pages, but I\\\'m not familiar with the MLP stories, so I\\\'ll leave the specifics to other people. What you describe does sound reasonable though, less \\\"broken aesop\\\" and more \\\"poorly delivered aesop\\\", perhaps.

A broken aesop, as I understand it, should very obviously be the show or book or its characters delivering a message supporting one lesson, while AT THE SAME TIME either doing the opposite or inadvertantly proving their own message false.
i.e. The GI Joes spend an entire episode fighting COBRA with guns and tanks and missiles, then stop to deliver an anti-violence message.

I would say that for a show as episodic as the one in question, then different different episodes should be considered entirely different strories, which makes this much more a case of Aesop Amnesia. It IS (theoretically) a children\\\'s show, afterall, and there is going to be some stuff just done for comedy or background action that the writers wheren\\\'t anticipating being disected season-by-season by adults.
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