Episodes I dislike, to a greater or lesser extent?
A Dog and Pony Show (the Dogs were such pushovers I sympathized with them more than I did with Rarity, and when I’m siding with brutish slavers against Best Pony…), Owl’s Well that Ends Well (that
fucking owl), Luna Eclipsed (not that it was bad by any means, but something about it, even the resolution, just feels… uncomfortable and kinda depressing), The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000 (Pinkie was a total prat, the moral had nothing to do with the plot, AJ’s “letter” just ground my gears), Dragon Quest (the dudebro dragons becoming complete assholes out of nowhere just felt… off, Spike decides he’s okay with being a beta male), Too Many Pinkie Pies (again, not bad, just that the characters basically deciding that clones don’t have souls and are okay to kill kinda creeped me out), Spike at Your Service (idiot plot, Best Pony was replaced by the orange background pony for no reason because they would’ve needed to rewrite the episode either way), Games Ponies Play (idiot plot, more Pretty Pink Princess shoved down our throats, the aforementioned princess’s flawlessness starts rubbing off on Twilight a bit,
some kinda creepy bits if you think about it).
Episodes I
hate?
MMDW (Everything in
>>49325, the idea that Scootaloo would drop Dash just like that, how hypocritically self-congratulatory the other five were), The Crystal Empire (Sombra could’ve been replaced with a tsunami of Gak and very little would’ve needed to change, Twilight and Celestia approaching the whole thing as a test instead of something with serious worldwide repercussions, the majority of it was a whole lot of faffing about and padding, Cadence continues to be not a bad character so much as a character who makes episodes bad if they were already subpar), MMC (pretty much everything bboifatz has had to say about it, the songs were shit, and Celestia having planned out Twilight’s whole life and forcing alicorn-ery on her without asking being diametrically opposed to the rest of the episode’s message of choosing your own path even
after the nonsense about destiny added to justify it all because
destiny wasn’t a thing until this very episode)