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Lol.
Because there’s nothing between “best” and “mediocre”; the show’s actually a collection of episodes that don’t surpass “pretty good”, right?
@Ihhh
Apparently that BP thinks “People shouldn’t bow to peer pressure and take part in activities that make them uncomfortable” is an ass-backward moral.
What episode are you referring to? I don’t remember there being any episode like that.
Well, I mean “Great” in a relative way. It won’t come close to be able to top season 5, but at the same time, I believe Haber has enough care in his work to not let the show sink as low as season 3 did.
I unironically believe Haber is the best writer we have left. Every other possible/confirmed writer is at like a 50/50 ratio of good or bad episodes.
Here’s the thing about Haber’s episodes. They are not always super exciting, but they have care put into them to make them interesting. They seemed to be crafted well and are only limited by their premises.
Castle Mania: He makes the characters play off each other very well. Loved this episode immediately.
Simple Ways: It’s been quite a while since i’ve seen this one, but I remember not being too impressed. Definitely his worst episode. But there were some clever things with Rarity being made to felt like Spike did.
Leap of Faith: Pretty fun episode, nothing super exciting, but nothing offensive.
Bloom and Gloom: Exactly the episode the fandom had always wanted, an exploration of what would happen if the CMC get their cutie marks at the same time.
The Cutie Remark: Awesome attention to detail in the Sombra portion as well as giving Glimmer a cool little gimmick of being able to fly with magic (I hope this stays into season 6). This episode is praised pretty highly minus Glimmer’s backstory.
Friendship Games: Hard to say with this one since it’s carried a lot by the high production values. I think the important thing to take away from the friendship games is with the deleted scenes. I think making homesick Sunset Shimmer was pretty genius on his end.
The Crystalling: I believe he did as best he could given the newest toy from hasbro. I don’t think any of the old top 3 writers could have done any better. The Glimmer/Spike/Sunburst plot was wonderful. Though one thing that it made me notice was that he writes his Pinkie like McCarthy and I think she’s annoying like that. But hey, i’ll take a slightly annoying Pinkie if it means getting an enjoyable Spike.
Haber is a very dialogue driven writer. He doesn’t have the ‘spark’ that the top 3 writers had that made their episodes really fun to watch but his episodes never make me think they are written poorly.
They don’t insult me with idiotic things like Yak citizens acting like braindead morons (ruining an entire species in the world) or Halloween episodes taking place almost entirely indoors with an ass-backwards moral.
I’m very interested to see if he did follow up on the Alicorn lore in a later episode, since afterall, it’s not like he just abandoned Glimmer’s backstory that was introduced in the Season 5 finale.
Considering people don’t want to just watch medicore drivel but want a show of high quality, yeah, it kind of does. When you go into a quality resteraunt and are served random cafeteria slop and are told “Oh, the chef quit, but this isn’t TERRIBLE, so why complain?” you simply stop going there.
Same thing here, if they want to keep fans interested they have to keep up quality, they can’t just say “Well he’s not utterly ruining the show, its not crap tier yet”.
Oh for…
Why do people still not get that Larson was not responsible for it? He wrote the episode, yes, but that was ultimately Hasbro’s decision. I’m fucking tired of people bashing Larson for making Twilight an Alicorn when it wasn’t his decision. Also he had better ideas for the episode and wanted to make it a two parter, but Hasbro basically told him to fuck off and do it their way.
Here’s a video explaining the whole thing.
So, apparently not being as good as the best makes you mediocre?
Establish too many facts and you essentially paint yourself into a corner as a writer. Why do you think the map of Equestria is so vague, mostly featureless, and lacks a scale?
he’s not merriweather tier; that’s not something to brag about though, you should EXPECT to not be that bad :p
the S4 premier, S4 finale, S2 premier and S2 finale, S1 finale and S5 premier all blow his two parters out of the water. Its not enough to just “not suck” to hold fans attention: A slow slide into mediocrity is just as bad.
That’s what we call Suicidal levels of Optimism.
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Let me know when Haber has to publicly apologize for an episode being so bad =)
The other reason is that he’s drastically inferior to Both larson and McCarthy in episode quality.
Not sure, but I know where yours is. ;D
Where’s your mother little duckling?
Sunshine, the show was damaged two seasons ago thanks to Larson the Brony-God.
Josh has already done a much better job than he ever did.
I’m taking something that is potentially damaging the show I am a big fan of seriously, yes.
What’s your excuse?
Hey you can make any excuses you like, just because I don’t follow my own advice doesn’t mean it isn’t correct.
Said the pot to the kettle.
It really is! Maybe you should stop taking yourself too seriously and making a fool of yourself?
Yeah, he’s clearly bullshitting. He’s also pretending to be retarded too. It’s such a funny joke he’s playing on us right now oh look Nyx is suddenly canon, funny joke right Josh?
The fact is that you’re presuming Josh has any reason to be honest to people who are a complete waste of his time. He’s clearly bullshitting, and assuming he “doesn’t care about the show” because he refuses to take bronies seriously is not only ass-backwards but arrogant.
Bronies are the people in the fandom.
The fandom is the group in which bronies are in.
They aren’t the same thing, you’re right about that but they’re not two entirely different things either.
Bronies aren’t the same thing as “the fandom”, especially not the specific bronies asking the show staff completely moronic questions