"Alex and Friends" is a continuation of the recommendation program made last year where people recommend things to watch and review. Today's recommendation: My Little Pony: The Movie Recommended by: P1STOLWH1PP1N "That's it! I simply... cannot... even! I have nothing! The bad guys have won! I'm so sorry" My Little Pony was not a direct influence on my childhood. I managed to see the 1980s cartoons on the TV, and while at that time I found them entertaining to watch, as anything on the TV was new and amusing, it offered little value to me, after all, their whole purpose was to commercialize toys for a female audience. It was not until the 2010s that a new series was introduced, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic , which had 9 seasons and spanned the entire decade. This series improved the concept of a magical world filled with ponies and other creatures to spread good values and the power of frien...
"Good Morning America, it is Charles Gibson, and it's Tuesday, September" It is hard to ignore the influence the September 11 attacks had on the world and everything that exists in it. Media, culture, politics, society, security - all were affected and changed beyond recognition. Looking back to this event, now 23 years in the past, it is perhaps the nostalgia or the process of becoming an adult that often makes me think , everything was better in the 90s and 2000s, and perhaps I am just blinded by those ethereal feelings. Under all the grief and suffering caused by the attacks, there is a sense we lost something, I was only 11 months old when this event happened but I always had the feeling the world lost a certain type of innocence (for lack of a better word) and looking back to old videos from that era, it has always felt that way to me. In my teenage years I went through a period of music discovery, duri...