OK, going to try to add these as the season goes by. We'll see how it goes on my keeping it up, especially as busy as my Saturdays usually are.

Well I watched the two premier episodes and was impressed. The first episode was pretty good, I loved the characterization and flashbacks with Celestia, and although it was not a total Celestia episode, I really can't complain. Also, I think the fact that it was a Slice of Life episode tying up some of the last seasons ending made it even stronger for me. I much prefer a resolution on screen than an off screen assumption. Some parts of it seemed to drag a bit, and Twilight spazzing out over and over got annoying, although watching Celestia do it utterly made up for that. Although some may have wished Starlight had went away, I am glad she is being allowed to stick around under her own choice and not shoved off in some weak attempt to return to the original cast. Although i am still pretty neutral about her, removing her just because would bother me a lot more than keeping her on. Overall I really enjoyed it and think it was a great start to the season.

All Bottled Up was a bit weaker for me personally. I loved that Trixie plays a prominent role and am even more thrilled that she is learning actual magic... and seems to be more talented at it than was given original credit for. However, her characterization was kind of aggravating to me overall... she has already shown she thinks very highly or Starlight and considers her her best friend.... so why act that way towards her? I get that she gets caught up in the moment and can have that arrogance streak at times, but to act like that towards your best friend just kind of felt way out of place. I am glad it got solved at the end, and the way they did it picked the episode back up for me, but still I found it way out of place. And speaking of out of place... the should have dumped the entire Twilight and gang scenes period. They could have saved that for its own episode and let this one center on Starlight and Trixie. The entire scenes just felt like absolute filler for me, and as such made the episode feel like filler in progress.... The song was dull and forced, the scenes felt shoehorned in, and it just felt like something there meant to kill half the episodes time slot. They could have just said they went to a retreat and i would have been fine with that. That being said.. the pretzel gag at the beginning was golden, mainly because I was eating pretzels at the time... so I almost choked on the irony and laughter. In conclusion, it was not a bad episode at all.. just sort of out of focus and had some things I think would have been better left out. I did like it for the most part though and look forward to EP3.

OK, not really... I tend to dislike babysitting episodes of anythings, so we will see how it goes.

Celestial Advice   8/10

All Bottled Up   7/10   (originally 6/10... but looking at it a bit more I kind of rethought my score)