03-29-2017, 02:48 PM
S4E22 Trade Ya!
This is definitely one of the worst in the show. Easily. For a lot of reasons. While maybe not insultingly bad and difficult to watch as others, I say from how it stands, there are several things that just make it awful. First off, it's too cluttered, trying to do something with each of the Mane 6 in pairs ended up not paying off, especially since most of it is focused on Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash on something that was way to drawn out, and a concept that is way too overdone in children's media. They'd be better off if they had the minor role in the episode. I mean, Chowder sums up this premise in a single, less than two minute song, yet Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy spend half the episode on this.
Also, how inconsistant are we going to be with Twilight being a Princess? I mean you can't keep doing this extremely noticeable back and forth motion where half the time everyone loves her and recognizes she's a princess, and the other time it's normal. And then you have things like Pinkie saying that it's like an honor just to be with her in that case? That's awful to me as I really feel that just tries to separate them like that. But onto my next gripe, yet another Rarity/Applejack pairoff. Why did they need to pool their items together? Why not just separate, and then Applejack tries to show-up the Element of Generosity... and there's literally nothing there aside from "Applejack wants a thing she's into and Rarity wants a thing she's into and remember how they're opposites?" It's tiring. I'm bored of it. Then Rainbow Dash trying to trade off Fluttershy for a book, look I get split second poor decisions, but that was way over the line. And the way that Pinkie was trying to "sell" Twilight's princess-ness as an accessory to the books, again putting her on some higher level, I really disliked that. But I think the worst part is the one line Twilight gives about her books. Because that actually is something meaningful, and actually could have been one of the redeeming qualities of the episode, except for the fact that the library, with all the books that she says means the world to her with this, get destroyed for no good reason aside from an unnecessary action sequence.
Not as awful to watch as something like Carts, but this is definitely one of the worst the show has to offer.
This is definitely one of the worst in the show. Easily. For a lot of reasons. While maybe not insultingly bad and difficult to watch as others, I say from how it stands, there are several things that just make it awful. First off, it's too cluttered, trying to do something with each of the Mane 6 in pairs ended up not paying off, especially since most of it is focused on Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash on something that was way to drawn out, and a concept that is way too overdone in children's media. They'd be better off if they had the minor role in the episode. I mean, Chowder sums up this premise in a single, less than two minute song, yet Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy spend half the episode on this.
Also, how inconsistant are we going to be with Twilight being a Princess? I mean you can't keep doing this extremely noticeable back and forth motion where half the time everyone loves her and recognizes she's a princess, and the other time it's normal. And then you have things like Pinkie saying that it's like an honor just to be with her in that case? That's awful to me as I really feel that just tries to separate them like that. But onto my next gripe, yet another Rarity/Applejack pairoff. Why did they need to pool their items together? Why not just separate, and then Applejack tries to show-up the Element of Generosity... and there's literally nothing there aside from "Applejack wants a thing she's into and Rarity wants a thing she's into and remember how they're opposites?" It's tiring. I'm bored of it. Then Rainbow Dash trying to trade off Fluttershy for a book, look I get split second poor decisions, but that was way over the line. And the way that Pinkie was trying to "sell" Twilight's princess-ness as an accessory to the books, again putting her on some higher level, I really disliked that. But I think the worst part is the one line Twilight gives about her books. Because that actually is something meaningful, and actually could have been one of the redeeming qualities of the episode, except for the fact that the library, with all the books that she says means the world to her with this, get destroyed for no good reason aside from an unnecessary action sequence.
Not as awful to watch as something like Carts, but this is definitely one of the worst the show has to offer.
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