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[Rares]

S6E16 The Times They Are a Changeling

For a Spike episode, which I'm normally disinterested in, I thought this one was fairly decent, and althout I don't like the changelings all that much, I think Thorax was a nice character. The song also I feel was pretty good. All in all, not a lot that I didn't like about this one.

If the rumors of this one being a recycled season 1 reject are true, then it deserved to be rejected. As you say, Rainbow knew even then when things had gone too far. In this episode she seems to know it, too, but disregards it, and the way it makes her putative friends feel for the lulz. That doesn't sound like something the Element of Loyalty would do, but what do I know?

Then the zombie-prank retaliation...I don't even know where to begin. This episode makes every pony involved come across horribly. The Walking Dead is popular over here, but the zombie thing itself never really took off, so I'm still up for some genre-related stuff, but it needs to be done well, and this wasn't. Even if we ignore the OoC behavior of so many ponies. It just doesn't fit MLP, and the writing itself was atrocious; you may be right, it was just done to ride the zombie-wave.

Unfortunately, I think this goes along with with my evaluation of S6: it started strong, but went rapidly downhill. *Flutter Brutter* is the worst example of htis, and was the first episode ever to make me genuinely upset. This one isn't as bad, but is pretty darn close. Good riddance.

Yeah really. That S1 reject sounds plausible, as the same was said about Carts. So it's possible. All in all, I agree, definitely not returning to that one anytime soon. At least the "zombie episode" is out of their system on the bright side, so they'll be unlikely to ever return to it.