An online friend of mine (who really, REALLY didn't seem like the type to watch a show related to My Little Pony) recommended it to me, and while it took a few days one day I got bored and he asked me again "Did you watch MLP yet?" and I thought to myself "Eh, may as well see why it's gotten a lot of hype, and why my friend has recommended it to me". I did not have high expectations, as I had nothing but bad memories of watching the original show when I was a kid (god awful plots, terrible characterisation, all the ponies felt like mostly the same character, etc etc etc) I watched the first episode and was shocked to find that I was enjoying it. Vastly superior dialogue, writing, humour, there seems to be some actual CHARACTERISATION in this show unlike the Generation 1 show (the trite I watched as a child) and...well, the rest as they say, is history. I am now obsessed with this show XD