Feeling Pinkie Keene: I didn't even know this was a controversy until I saw a post on here mentioning it, when I found out I just facepalmed and chalked it up to the fact that some people really have nothing better to do than just read into things that aren't even there.

 

Mysterious Mare Do Well: Again I didn't even realize this was a controversy until I saw a post on here mentioning it, I have noticed that the writer of this episode does get a lot of unjustified hate. Okay I could see people not agreeing with certain directions some episodes take, but the only episode that made me want to slap the writers was Griffon the Brush Off.

 

Derpy: I remember the conversations me and the friend of mine who introduced me to ponies had about Derpy back when he was trying to convince me to watch the show, I had no strong feelings one way or another at the time because I figured that I would better be able to make my decision once I actually saw the episode and scene in question. So when I got into the show and saw both versions of the scene I got seriously pissed. Here are all these fans who like Derpy many of them because they are seen as different maybe or maybe not because of a disability and she gets a minor speaking role and all these people butt in most of which aren't fans of the show rudely claim to speak for disabled people by saying that Derpy is offensive when many of them actually like Derpy. But Snips and Snails who are as stereotypical dumb dumb characters as you can get are somehow not viewed as offensive by these same people. And all this despite the fact that Derpy was never confirmed one way or another to be disabled, people only assumed this was the case because of her walled eyes, clumsy child like nature and voice which is what I think is really offensive in this whole fiasco. Yes some Derpy fans overreacted, but I am sick and tired of people getting so high and mighty just because a few crazies did something stupid. As much as I would like to tell the complainers to take their smug attitude and shove it, I am doing the best I can to remain calm because I don't want to create a backlash that will make it less likely for characters like Derpy to appear in this or other shows. I may hate the complainers but I love my cause far more than I hate them.

 

Spike At Your Service: At first I was just happy to see another Applejack episode and was blind to alot of the episodes flaws but after seeing it again a few times I can see the critics points. Spike has been shown in the episode that he can't even perform the simplest of tasks many of these tasks he has shown he can do quite easily in other episodes. I could understand Spike making screw ups like this later in the episode because he overworked himself or something, but from start to finish seems a bit inconsistent and out of character for him.

 

Magical Mystery Cure: I have said it many times and I will say it again this is the worst of the entire series, it makes no sense whatsoever and makes a complete and total mockery of Twilight Sparkle who is one of my favorite characters by arbitrarily shoe horning a change that didn't have nearly enough plot development especially with the rest of the season having almost nothing to do said change aside from vague hints. I was one of the harshest critics on this site of this episode and this "change" and while I still hate this episode and probably always will, I became neutral on twilicorn after seeing Equestria Girls which turned out to be a bit better than I thought it would be. It dosen't let this episode off the hook but it does give me some degree of hope that this change even if its introduction was god awful can still work out.

 

Equestrial Girls: While my expectations were low I just saw it as little more than a spin off and didn't see any reason to panic. I saw it and I am glad I did, the move itself was while it could have been better actually pretty good and the whole experience seeing it with several other rather enthusiastic bronies (one of them being the same friend who introduced me to ponies) in the audience was a lot of fun.

Source: Learning about past controversies after joining the fandom