>>94691452Pedophiles, sad neckbeards, lonely nerds... Basically the bronies. The animators knew the audience they were going to reel in with their huge cast of girls. But sadly, turning LH into a fairly uninspired harem cartoon ultimately harmed it. Eleven characters could be the entire cast in another cartoon, but if you're aiming for a family variety show you need to take time to develop the sisters, the parents, and Lincoln himself.
That's going to take a lot of time and effort with eleven siblings, then the two parents, then you need to do Lincoln himself. Then there's fucking Clyde, the biggest stain on the show by far. It's doable, you just need time which isn't infinite. Your eleven minute format is going to go stale pretty damn fast. But then LH runs into another problem directly tied to the harem genre.
You can't develop these characters. They need to keep that theme, they need predictable personalities, and Lincoln must always be a self insert. The fans don't want girls with a multifaceted personality with ambitions and dreams like a real person, no. They want generic, safe, cardboard cutouts to imagine themselves going on a date with. Lynn will always be the brash tomboy, Lucy will always be the morbid goth (despite apparently liking a baseball player), Whori will always be the bossy villain with Bobba Hill Santiago the II as her hanger on. Do something like say, Lucy getting thrown out of her respective clique and forcing her to develop her own personality, and she stops being the goth.
She becomes Lucy the character and the bronies will get scared. Just like they did when the purple pony got a boyfriend.
