@Mr grump
 
Good point, actually. If I had to guess what made me like that episode better, it would probably be that the prelude stuff felt more focused and blended with the gala episode better (for example, the Ticket Master episode established their expectations and was reflected well in the finale maybe?)
 
The Games prelude stuff feels like it was kinda scattered and unfocused, and didn’t mesh as well with the event itself, being more of just isolated incidents rather than real setup to the Games.
 
I don’t know, I’ve never really thought about it that much. Hm.

@Tyler_Cunn  
I’m not trying to put words in your mouth, I was just curious is all.  
That gala episode in season one had a fair amount of build up episodes and that wasn’t a two parter but then again it was the season finale so that might be considered different circumstances.

@Background Pony #DB3A  
Fair enough. The episode wasn’t what I thought it would be either but liked it for what it was. I even had to skip the part where spike sang because I cant stand watching people embarrass themselves.
 
I understand if you didn’t think It was as good as it could have been and thanks for the level headed discussion.

@Mr grump
 
@Lucky Shot
 
Hwut? I’m not saying I was hyped up for it, but looking back, it really doesn’t seem like the kind of episode you would make like 5 episodes leading up to. It really should have been a two-parter or something, it just seems anti-climactic as it is.

@Mr grump
 
Oh okay. But usually the only times it bothers me when an episode isn’t what’d I’d expect is if I don’t like the actual content of the episode anyway. Like I said an episode can be good without being what I’d think it would be but if I dislike the way it was done I’ll probably think “they really should have done it that way instead”.

@Mr grump
 
100% the latter

@Tyler_Cunn  
Did the staff actually hype the episode up themselves with promo’s and tweets and such or did the fandom hype themselves up because the characters were preparing for the event?

@Background Pony #DB3A  
I didn’t mean to imply that people are stupid for having high expectations or for being dissapointed that things didn’t turn the way they thought it would. Only that they should try to reevaluate the episode once their dissapointmet is no longer clouding their judgement and give it a fair chance at entertaining them before fully deciding whether the episode is good or bad.

@Lucky Shot
 

 
They’d been making Equestria Games episodes since mid-season 3…

@Tyler_Cunn
 
They didn’t? It’s just a Spike episode

@Lucky Shot
 
Well, I’m not really complaining, but I personally didn’t care for it. I didn’t think it was horrible, but I didn’t think it was an episode worth building up to for a year and a half.

Are people seriously complaining about one of the only good Spike episodes in the show?

@Mr grump
 
Okay yeah, I agree with that, and I mean I agree that, as I said, simply saying ‘it wasn’t what I thought it’d be’ isn’t a very good argument if you’re trying to get someone to agree with you, but it seemed like you were saying that wishing they didn’t take the episode in the direction they did is a stupid opinion. I mean I’ll admit an episode can be decent even if you wished something was different, but if your opinion is that the way they executed it made it a lot more inferior to what it could have been, it’s reasonable to say “I think it should have been done about X”, just as long as you’re not doing it with the expectation that everyone will agree

@Background Pony #DB3A  
In short, your right to an opinion is sacrosanct but the opinion itself is not afforded the same protection so expect scrutiny if you choose to share it and backlash if you act like your opinion is better then anyone elses without sufficient evidence or a good enough arguement to back it up.

@Background Pony #DB3A  
Of course you’re entitled to you’re opinion on an episode, art is subjective and not everyone will like the same thing and anyone who tries to insult you personally for having an opinion that deviates from the norm can go screw themselves.
 
However, Sharing idea’s, having them scrutinised by others and critiquing the idea’s of others in return is half the point of a comment section and should be expected once you choose to share your opinion with others on one.

@Mr grump
 
It can contribute to your negative opinion. Sure, an episode “not being what you thought it would be” can’t really be submitted as a reason why other people should agree with you, but if I feel like an episode has a huge waste of potential, that won’t really impress me much. This is one of my biggest complaints about Slice of Life, it could have been something interesting but whoever wrote it decided ‘le ebin brownie maymays XDXDD’ and jokes that I, personally, found to be mostly unfunny, were more important. I don’t think it’s unfair for me to have a problem with that, but I understand that it’s just my opinion, which I am just as entitled to as you.

@Background Pony #777A  
I agree. an episode not being what you thought it would be doesn’t make the episode bad.  
You just need to get over your initial disappointment and judge the episode for what it has, not what you think it should have.

@Mr grump  

Which was their own problem and not of the episode itself. Saying an episode was bad because it wasn’t about what they expected it to be makes no sense. One has to be really immature and/or biased towards the character to say that with a straight face.
 
The execution was good, it had good humor, there was decent worldbuilding, the cringe worthy song was supposed to make you cringe since the whole point was Spike wanted the earth to swallow him and you were supposed to feel that from him, he had a crowning moment of awesome in the end, and the moral was extremely relatable for almost everyone.
 
People bitching that they wanted the olympic events instead of Spike in a show about friendship and feelings, isn’t a valid argument to say the episode was bad. That’s just the but we wanted sport events butthurt talking.
 
Also, Secret of my Excess, Just for Sidekicks and Inspiration Manifestation aren’t bad episodes either. Spike has as many decent episodes as he has bad ones, people just like to exagerate with him because he’s Spike.

@Background Pony #B1B5
 
>bringing up Double Rainboom
 

@MadBrony  
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@DaKurgan  
“Cringe” Oh god,you guys are seroiusly whining that a character is put in an embarassing situation (i assume that’s the singing part that triggered you.Well sure let’s follow Internet advices (which as we all know are so much better than profesional writers like the masterpiece Double Rainboom can attest) and let’s make sure that characters never get into petty conflicts/obstacles that could trigger some delicate sensibilities

@DaKurgan  
That roughly describes Rainbow Dash’s character arc in “Sonic Rainboom”. I guess you hate that one too?

@ChuymaruZ
 

 
@noobiestbrony
 
I thought the Games episode was pretty mediocre for an event they’d been leading up to for a year and a half.
 
@TexasUberAlles
 
R u new?

@TexasUberAlles  
Come on and dive right in dude, The waters fine.  
There’s plenty of drama for everyone!😉

 
Y’all sure are gettin’ worked up over one of the least essential tweets to ever be posted here.