Once again, here we are. Twenty-six episodes and two and a half months since I took it upon myself to teview the first season of the great animated show, My Little Pony: Freindship is Magic, a show that is the very reason as to why we have all congregated to this very website. I gave Season 1 a fairly positive review, a six out of ten to be exact, with the season having some fantastic gems that carried deep and interesting stories and morals as well as hilarious characters and humour and some terrible episodes that were the opposite of everything that I just described and made me want to curl up into a ball on my bedroom floor. Well, today I continue this marathon with a brief look at the show's second endeavour, a serie's favourite among fans. The same rules as last time still apply so if you have not seen my review on Season 1 prior to seeing this, then I would advise that you go back and take a look at it, just so that you know what is going on. With all of that out of the way, I present to you, My Little Pony: Freindship is Magic - Season 2, reviewed!

1) " The Return of Harmony, Part 1 " - Damn, I wish that THIS had been the serie's introduction as opposed to what we actually got back in Season 1. THIS is how you do an interesting, lore-related conflict correctly. The villain, well he's Discord, one of the absolute best and funniest characters in the entire series, a delightfully random, bizarre, insane, yet somehow weirdly intimidating antagonist that completely makes this episode for me. Seeing all of the Mane 6 digress into malicious, evil versions of themselves was not only hilarious, but salsa drove the plot along smoothly and actually led to some rather emotional moments. Yes, I know that some people do like to nitpick about things such as Fluttershy's corruption, claiming that it was just the writers being lazy and not knowing what to do with it's characters but, for me at least, moments like this were always satirical enough for me to overlook the particular "problem" and actually even sometimes get a good laugh out of it. The only moment where this doesn't work is at the beginning of the episode where Discord escapes after a thousand years merely because the CMC had a mild argument next to his statue, with no real or alternate explanation. I have to dock it a point for that, as it just doesn't make sense and comes a costs as lazy story-telling.

9/10

2) " The Return of Harmony, Part 2 " - Great, better than the first half even. Absolutely filled to the brim with hilarious jokes, a really sentimental and genuinely touching scene, as well as a fast-paced and thrilling chase sequence which all amounted to something in the long run. Everything that the characters had learnt over the course of Season 1 was finally put to use in an "end of Equestria" type of situation again and it really ended up being a joy to watch. The only thing that I didn't like was the climax. Discord just sits there, despite the Mane 6 being freinds again and none of them being grey any more. Nor did he even attempt to escape to get away when he noticed that the elements were working. There's being satirical but please don't put that above story-telling in the future. Oh well, at lest the rest of the episode is excellent.

9/10

3) " Lesson Zero " - This episode addresses and obliterates my most prominent complaint with Season 1. It should get a ten out of ten just for that. Crazed Twilight is extremely entertaining and believable in the show's canon ( yes, Twilight has demonstrated in the past that she cares so much about her reputation with Celestia that I DO believe that this is a reasonable depiction of her behaviour in this situation ) and it was just a really great episode overall. Maybe the Mane 6 could have been a bit more understanding of her feelings but they learn their lesson by the end of the episode. Besides, is this really with docking a point for? I don't think so.

9/10

4) " Luna Eclipsed " - A great episode that FINALLY addresses the topic of Princess Luna for the first time in over a season. It expands the established world of the show with a new holiday, the humour is pretty funny and the conflict and moral are well done. Actually, no, this Episode WOULD be great if Pinkie Pie wasn't the most obnoxious piece of garbage ever to grace the face of Equestria in it. Seriously, what the HELL was she playing at here?! Oh, and Celestia never told Luna how to behave around people again? After all this time since the first episode? Di@k. Still a good episode though.

7/10

5) " Sisterhooves Social " - Wow. Just wow. The best episode that we've had up to this point. Brilliant, yet a grounded and reasonable conflict, moral and character interaction, several touching and extremely memorable scenes and Rarity and Sweetie Belle were just fantastic all the way through. That ending scene with the event itself will always stand out as a high point in the show's history. Not going to bother with complaints.

10/10

6) " The Cutie Pox " - Oh dear. Just boring and jam-packed with filler. It's predictable, the complete same as every other CMC episode and it's not very funny. It's perfectly watchable, don't get me wrong, it's not harmful or horrible by any means, nothing is that bad about it, it's just kind of lazy and uninteresting. Skip it, it won't make any difference whether you actually see it or not.

4/10

7) " May the Best Pet Win " - And the trend of bad episodes continues with an unpleasant, irritating and simply infuriating Rainbow Dash barking her head of to a load of innocent animals for no good reason other than the fact that she wants a pet. Who the Hell cares? The other members of Mane 6 do absolutely Jack-sh@t about Raibow's abusiveness towards the animals and even support it throughout almost the entire episode. And, no, one line of dialogue between Twilight and Applejack is not going to cut it. That's another thing, the others really seem to love going behind Rainbow's back in this episode, going on frequent gathering without her despite the fact that they're all apparently so close. And, yes, they had their reasons for it, but they could have at least asked her. Combine that with a stupidly predictable plot, and you've got a recipe for a crap episode.

3/10

8) " The Mysterious Mare-Do-Well " - If I say that this episode sucks, will I honestly be surprising ANYONE? This is arguably the most hated episode of the show and while I don't personall think that it is QUITE that bad, it still is a truly miserable excuse for an episode. The residents of Ponyville act like completely fickle assholes and turn against Rainbow Dash in an instant, despite the fact that she, you know, saved lives. Rainbow Dash is not nearly unlikeable enough to warrant all of the hate launched at her in this episode and the Mane 6 are hypocritical, deceitful and treat Rainbow Dash like an idiot, forcing her to undergo all of this negativity when they could have just, oh, I don't know, TALKED TO HER! You should know that better than anypony Applejack, considering that you're the element of honesty for fu@k's sake. The whole thing is stupidly contrived as well, Ponyville just HAPPENS to become a magnet for disaster in this ONE episode and never again. Rainbow Dash saved numerous lives in this episode, her bragging was reasonable and completely justified for her character. If you haven't noticed, she's the element of loyalty, not the element of modesty.  Not to mention that she doesn't even get the moral in the end, so what's the point of it all. Just a disgrace.

1/10

9) " Sweet and Elite " - YES! A Rarity episode, and a great one at that! Excellent story telling, a believable conflict and a classic, but brilliant moral. We get to actually see Rarity's guilt throughout the episode which make her actions feel so much more relatable and justified. She learns her lesson in the end and I'm so glad that Fancy Pants sticks up for her in the end and is actually a really likeable character. Besides, ponies destroying sh@t is funny. Why only a nine you ask? I'll tell you why. No Spike, and it's really noticeable.

9/10

10) " Secret of My Excess " - Finally, another Spike episode. Let's hope that it's better than the last one. A relationship conflict with an interesting new development about dragons and, no I don't really care that much that this episode raises several questions as it isn't up to one particular episode in the series to answer the biology on the entire species. Besides, the action is fantastic, the moral is excellent and that ending is simply too heart-wrenching for me to NOT give this episode a nine................by the way this episode gets a nine.......spoilers I guess.

9/10

11) " Hearth's Warming Eve " - The very definition of decent. The story is interesting and entertaining enough, with plenty of good jokes distributed throughout the episode. Sadly however, it has a multitude of continuity-related issues and doesn't really make sense among the rest of the show's lore. I appreciate that, yes, the episode takes place with the pretense of it all being a play and therefore some of these flaws can be forgiven, but it admittedly still bothers me and, while were opening up about plot-points that bother me, I really don't are for the Mane 6 arguing at the beginning and particularly the end of the episode for no major reason whatsoever. I appreciate that they are attempting to reinforce the moral of the episode, but to me it just seems forced and somewhat contrived. It's an enjoyable watch, but it's large variety of flaws prevent it from being anything more.

6/10

12) " Family Appreciation Day " - A very visually impressive episode with loads of really stunning and creative scenes based around the harvest of the Zap-Apples which, in itself is once again a great example of world-building and smoothly introduces the audience to an unfamiliar concept with ease. The moral is great and the episode allows for the watcher to pick up on it for themselves, which I really like. I also enjoy Granny Smith and her amazingly outlandish and aberrant personality during the entirety of the episode as it is not only very funny to witness, but also actually contributes to the overall plot. The only teeny, tiny, itty, bitty problem that I have is Diamond Tiara. AGAIN. For the second time, an otherwise near-flawless episode is spoiled by that vexatious little rat. 

9/10

13) " Baby Cakes " - Do you hear that? That is the sound of the show's continuity screaming out in agony right now as our own, dear Charlotte Fullerton smashes the crap out of it with as much subtlety as a ten-story meteorite colliding into the great wall of China. Look, I appreciate that this is a highly fantastical show, but after an entire Season and a half of establishing and building the show's lore, you CANNOT just completely go against what has already been made clear in previous episodes. The last few minutes of the episode are a grand cluster-fu@k of the likes of which the world has never seen and, one last parting gift from yours truly, there a good ways and there a bad ways to execute adult-themed jokes in shows such as this. Needless to say, this was a very bad way. That being said, that one scene with the Pig song was actually bizarrely really funny in my opinion.

3/10