For future episode reviews, I'm considering trying out a new rating system, where I grade what I think are the four most important qualities in a pony episode and then take an average out of 100. I've tried applying it to this season based on memory, and it lined up mostly pretty comfortably with where I'd position episodes and how I'd rank them. The four qualities are entertainment value or humour, or how fun an episode is to watch, characterization, or how well the characters are written, theme, including the main moral and other themes, and story, or the main overarching narrative.

For me, "The Cart Before the Ponies", for instance, is rated like this:
Humour: 5/10
Character: 5/10
Theme: 7/10
Story: 4/10
Overall: 53/100

I personally weight them in that order, with humour as most important and story as least important, but others might rank those qualities differently, and it might be interesting to see which qualities are most important to others, and how they'd rate episodes according to them. Do you think I missed anything in my rubric? Would you apply a different one? How would you weigh these qualities? How would you rate "The Cart Before the Ponies?" Let me know in the replies!