My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic - Page 660

characterless villain, therefore the worst mlp villain to date, and extremely predictable ending but eh

3 songs - but not as good ones as usual; Pinkie's gags were some of the highlights, and the animation was good

I enjoyed the episode, I dislike melodramatic season openers, so I was happy it wasn't like season 1 and 2.

+ Animation, songs, production value
+ Writing, comedy
- Flat to non-existent characterisation of villain and crystal ponies
- unduly epic story without context

- Gave up on the writing or comedy
- Explosions with no real meaning

I had fun with the episode, my only bummer during it was stream problems.
The villain sucked, there is no other way to put it.
But I especially enjoyed the middle and end song and LUNA EVERYWHERE! :D

It was good to see a little more of the MLP universe, and know we know why Cadence has that cutie mark.

Overall 6/10 - The villain really killed it, no lines, no personality, didn't get to know him.
Would of been a lot higher score with a better villain.

King Somber

Not an aggressive villain but one whose influence caused unhappiness, and by finding the cause through a personal connection (instead of epic showy magic) they could restore him.

While Discord's defeat in the Season 2 opener was laughably done, the lead-up was incredible. That first episode was amazing because it built itself up properly, and paced itself well. Here, though, we never got a good grasp of the empire, and the villain was a complete joke. The writing some times holds these things together, but even that was pretty weak by the end.

A couple of gags had me rolling with laughter, though.

Also, HI LUNA! Please keep showing up and saying things! Your friend, Cane!

Crystal Twilight/10 episode for me.

the songs--just how they were about pretty much inconsequential things and were just singing about what the cast was doing. Hard to enjoy a song that doesn't have any real character, meaning, or unique flair.

Twi's power creep is getting ridiculous. Gravity spells and self-levitation, lol. Also LUNA YAY.

I still can´t believe wife javelin actually happened. It´s so out there.
Need to be at a certain ojective before the enemy is? Throw your half conscious wife at it.
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Can´t think of anything else right now.

The villian was very poorly done I think. King somber doesn't have the real story like the previous 2 season starting villians had and they never really got into why he did what he did. I wish they did the ending a bit more like the me3 krogan storyline ending where there are particles of love and happiness snowing around people instead of doing the same thing they did with the s2 ending.

The episode other then that made me really giddy with pony joy. I liked the interaction between spike and twilight and I'm so happy about the beginning work that they did with luna and celestia. I really enjoyed the small qualities of the songs and where they ended up. Didn't have that epic we're all going to die with happy feel but I did really enjoy it.

All hail the crystal princess!