I enjoyed this episode. I don't think it's the strongest season opener we've had, but it was a better than average episode.
A few random observations:
The original princesses are barely even mentioned. I think the only mention was when one pony (it might have been Sugar Belle) asks Twilight if she's met Celestia. Normally season openers and finales seem to revolve around the princesses or prominently feature them. This episode broke with that.
On a related note, in season 4 the letters to
This is a list of my favourite MLP scenes, which I created for this thread. Unlike the post in that thread, I'll try to keep this blog article updated when scene 5 starts airing.
It was very difficult to narrow it down to such a tiny selection of scenes.
Friendship is MagicTwilight Sparkle and Nightmare Moon charging at each other, as mentioned above. (Category: Kick-Ass)
Princess Luna cowering after Twilight has destroyed the Nightmare Moon ponysona. (Category: Cute)
So I've just finished reading Rainbow Dash and the Daring Do Double Dare to the kids, and thought I'd do a mini-review of it.
It's reasonably long - 14 chapters, each about eight pages of fairly solid text. This is good. The stories in the My Little Pony magazine are taken from episodes, but abbreviated down to such short pieces of text that they miss out the charming dialogue and details from the original show. With over a hundred pages of story, there's scope for a lot more cuteness.
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