Regardless of the fandom, everyone is going to have a problem with episodes. It isn’t just MLP FiM, it’s others too. Not all episodes will have the same story flow, so not everyone will like it, even fans.
@Klonoahedgehog
I guess you forgot to observe Twilight was already more powerful than the Mane 6 combined. How powerful was she compared to, say, Rarity or Trixie (minus the Alicorn Amulet)? Pretty damn powerful if you ask me.
@Klonoahedgehog
I am going to give Season 4 a chance (I will at least watch the opener), but my expectations for it are very low right now, and if they do not hit the ball out of the park, I don’t see myself finishing the season. I agree that the finale had problems before the alicorn aspect of it was even introduced– it was way too rushed to get the full mileage out of the cutie mark swapping aspect, and that should have been its own episode. Twilight Sparkle becoming a princess just took a rushed episode and turned it into a rushed episode that is going to potentially ruin the show for me.
@Klonoahedgehog
That is the stupidest fucking thing I have ever read in regards to the Twilicorn drama. Of course the show has a story. EVERYTHING has a story. Without it, there would be no point to anything at all. In season one, there is a story of how the cutie mark crusaders were formed, as well as how Rainbow Dash met the wonderbolts AND hung out with them. Also, there is the episodes where Fluttershy becomes more confident in herself, how friendships grow between the mane 6, ect. ect. To say that there is no story in FiM is to say that there is no point to each and every single episode in the series. There would be no reason to watch them at all.
Maybe because it’s one of the handful of episodes in the series that made any meaningful contribution to the story? If you stripped out all the filler episodes, you’d have half a season of actual material.
Over 50 filler episodes in a 65-ep run is NOT a track record to brag about. At this point, all the potential G-rated slice-of-life plots have been used at least once. The show either evolves or it stagnates into oblivion. Period.