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Wow this episode has such a broken base it's not funny. I have not seen such polar opposites in opinion as I have for this one. Now I largely develop my own opinion by reading others and seeing if I agree with them...so I'm going to try to justify my own opinion now just to make sure I KNOW WHAT I AM THINKING because at the moment I am truly unsure what to think.
> This episode is bad because alicorn princess Twilight.
Why does that make the episode bad?
Because it changes the status quo? A show does indeed go downhill if something monumental happens...but, is it because the change happens itself, or because it wasn't written well? Certainly any story could have anything happening to it, and if it written well and believable then by all means whatever that is planned should go on. ...was this written well?
> No
Why? Well..for one, it was rushed. I do agree that perhaps making friends and going through adventures was the whole point so Twilight could become a princess...and this random unfinished spell is simply the last step, but...why? Why does she NEED to be an alicorn...or a princess? What do these wings do that make her extra special? She can teleport all over the place already and make cloud walking spells...aren't wings just redundant? And why a princess? What is she a princess OF? What exactly is she supposed to reign over? She is now a god...does she NEED to be one? Is she replacing someone else? Certainly there was never a word of another princess beyond Celestia and Luna in the beginning, so what is this purpose? Is any of this believable at all?
> No
Why? Because the short timeframe gives us abridged reactions to everything that happens. The only pony who actually gets some resemblance of time to react is Pinkie, when she does a spit-take. Indeed Twilight becoming a princess IS out of the blue, sudden, and rather unnecessary. Twilight only gets time to comment about reading a book to learn to become her new role but never any time to consider it. What if she doesn't WANT to become a princess? Isn't that a choice? Would Twilight just run at the chance of a whole new responsibility, tons of fame, and shitloads of power!? Why is everyone else so unanimously happy about this? Could not they question why such and such happens at least, ask the princess about this rather random series of events? Rainbow Dash is always skeptical of things and always demanding answers! Twilight itself probably wants to know more of this whole method-of-coronation herself too! If you ignore the coronation, is the rest of the episode of high quality?
> Maybe
How do you judge ten minutes of animation with a plot that could easily command two episodes? Song is a tool used to condense everything into one point, but if there was more time we'd fill up so many of the plotholes that are there. What are Big Mac and family doing with Pinkie? Aren't there other weather ponies besides Rarity? Why is she allowed to fuck everything up on her own? Is the town really that dependent on Pinkie to be happy? (A good theory for this one though, is that all the townsfolks memories were altered as well, so they're confused as heck as to if the weather was always like that, or if their normal source of food is usually not there, etc. Since Pinkie was fixed last that was when the weird-ass spell was finally broken and their sudden realization that what their life was like isn't a complete mess of confusion is a huge reason they immediately brightened up at the sight of Pinkie) On the other hand I find it SO heart-warming that they depend on Pinkie for this, so... Wouldn't the animals run away if Rainbow Dash is too inadequate to care for them!? And while Twilight seemingly comes up with a solution immediately, we can tell with the leafless trees and AJ closing down the boutique that MUCH TIME has passed....like months or something! So she took a long time to figure it out, but because there is no resemblance of proper pacing in this episode at all, this is easily missed. And so all the conflict in the episode is in these two minutes...this plot is just SO LARGE that ten minutes does it no justice whatsoever, and the sheer fact that it only got ten minutes makes the episode bad. Except the episode isn't completely bad... why?
> Because I am a hopeless fangirl.
SONGS. Pinkie's mane is straight and she is adorably sad. Applejack with a WONDROUS SOLO. CELESTIA SINGING! The heart-warming aspects of fixing cutie-marks! That really beautiful Twilight song! They KNEW the episode would be bad so they littered it with as much fanservice as possible to try to counter-act such an absurd turn of events! They made it tug at your heartstrings then fixed it again with very pretty animation and really cute ponies. They shoved as much content as possible into twenty-two minutes. Let me be the first to say this ploy cannot work again. If anything else ridiculous happens I don't know exactly what they can do to counteract it because despite all these goodies overall the writing was bad.
So what can we conclude from this all? Objectively the episode was terrible. Subjectively it was amazing. I know that sounds utterly contradicting, but I really don't know what else to think. ...well there is one thing I DO know.
Aryan Fluttershy clones are completely stupid.
> This episode is bad because alicorn princess Twilight.
Why does that make the episode bad?
Because it changes the status quo? A show does indeed go downhill if something monumental happens...but, is it because the change happens itself, or because it wasn't written well? Certainly any story could have anything happening to it, and if it written well and believable then by all means whatever that is planned should go on. ...was this written well?
> No
Why? Well..for one, it was rushed. I do agree that perhaps making friends and going through adventures was the whole point so Twilight could become a princess...and this random unfinished spell is simply the last step, but...why? Why does she NEED to be an alicorn...or a princess? What do these wings do that make her extra special? She can teleport all over the place already and make cloud walking spells...aren't wings just redundant? And why a princess? What is she a princess OF? What exactly is she supposed to reign over? She is now a god...does she NEED to be one? Is she replacing someone else? Certainly there was never a word of another princess beyond Celestia and Luna in the beginning, so what is this purpose? Is any of this believable at all?
> No
Why? Because the short timeframe gives us abridged reactions to everything that happens. The only pony who actually gets some resemblance of time to react is Pinkie, when she does a spit-take. Indeed Twilight becoming a princess IS out of the blue, sudden, and rather unnecessary. Twilight only gets time to comment about reading a book to learn to become her new role but never any time to consider it. What if she doesn't WANT to become a princess? Isn't that a choice? Would Twilight just run at the chance of a whole new responsibility, tons of fame, and shitloads of power!? Why is everyone else so unanimously happy about this? Could not they question why such and such happens at least, ask the princess about this rather random series of events? Rainbow Dash is always skeptical of things and always demanding answers! Twilight itself probably wants to know more of this whole method-of-coronation herself too! If you ignore the coronation, is the rest of the episode of high quality?
> Maybe
How do you judge ten minutes of animation with a plot that could easily command two episodes? Song is a tool used to condense everything into one point, but if there was more time we'd fill up so many of the plotholes that are there. What are Big Mac and family doing with Pinkie? Aren't there other weather ponies besides Rarity? Why is she allowed to fuck everything up on her own? Is the town really that dependent on Pinkie to be happy? (A good theory for this one though, is that all the townsfolks memories were altered as well, so they're confused as heck as to if the weather was always like that, or if their normal source of food is usually not there, etc. Since Pinkie was fixed last that was when the weird-ass spell was finally broken and their sudden realization that what their life was like isn't a complete mess of confusion is a huge reason they immediately brightened up at the sight of Pinkie) On the other hand I find it SO heart-warming that they depend on Pinkie for this, so... Wouldn't the animals run away if Rainbow Dash is too inadequate to care for them!? And while Twilight seemingly comes up with a solution immediately, we can tell with the leafless trees and AJ closing down the boutique that MUCH TIME has passed....like months or something! So she took a long time to figure it out, but because there is no resemblance of proper pacing in this episode at all, this is easily missed. And so all the conflict in the episode is in these two minutes...this plot is just SO LARGE that ten minutes does it no justice whatsoever, and the sheer fact that it only got ten minutes makes the episode bad. Except the episode isn't completely bad... why?
> Because I am a hopeless fangirl.
SONGS. Pinkie's mane is straight and she is adorably sad. Applejack with a WONDROUS SOLO. CELESTIA SINGING! The heart-warming aspects of fixing cutie-marks! That really beautiful Twilight song! They KNEW the episode would be bad so they littered it with as much fanservice as possible to try to counter-act such an absurd turn of events! They made it tug at your heartstrings then fixed it again with very pretty animation and really cute ponies. They shoved as much content as possible into twenty-two minutes. Let me be the first to say this ploy cannot work again. If anything else ridiculous happens I don't know exactly what they can do to counteract it because despite all these goodies overall the writing was bad.
So what can we conclude from this all? Objectively the episode was terrible. Subjectively it was amazing. I know that sounds utterly contradicting, but I really don't know what else to think. ...well there is one thing I DO know.
Aryan Fluttershy clones are completely stupid.
