I'm in agreement with your thoughts. It defines nicely for why I consider this the worst episode of S5 so far. It may have had a good premise with dealing with loss, but, whether it was forced upon Hasbro meddling or not, it was poorly executed for having RD behave erratically for simply missing the opportunity to spend time in winter with her friend in Tank.

I'm in agreement with your thoughts. It defines nicely for why I consider this the worst episode of S5 so far. It may have had a good premise with dealing with loss, but, whether it was forced upon Hasbro meddling or not, it was poorly executed for having RD behave erratically for simply missing the opportunity to spend time in winter with her friend in Tank.

Yeah. The entire thing could have been fixed if the stakes were a bit higher, and she had dealt with it realistically. It came so damn close to being a great episode, but ended up being the low point of S5.

Yeah. The entire thing could have been fixed if the stakes were a bit higher, and she had dealt with it realistically. It came so damn close to being a great episode, but ended up being the low point of S5.

That's what's so sad for me about the episode as well. It really had all the ideas for a great RD episode, but poor execution killed what could've been as such for me.

I kept on waiting for the episode to give me a justifiable excuse for Rainbow's actions....but it just didn't. Her actions were selfish at best, and downright destructive at worst. You're right, Rainbow should have definitely received some kind of consequence for doing all that damage to the weather factory.

Furthermore, it also would have been nice if we had an episode prior to this showing Rainbow's undying affection for Tank. Since we didn't, it just came off as awkward.