Dark Qiviut

Sorry, but I'm not interested in bowing down before Princess Bitchquick. Donut Joe, however, doesn't make his donuts out of a box. They're homemade and gourmet! He'd put Sunset outta business! Now, bow before your god!

As Sunset has the interest of a bland piece of pancake, Donut Joe is much more interesting and gets the vote instead. So how about a pic of Donut Joe being classy enough to give his fine mare some wine? Link to the image.

Just because they don't see it doesn't mean it's not there. Major quality flaws that can break the story become more and more obvious upon further viewings. Besides characterization, whether the pace is good or not tends to be one of the first, and KCaFO's and MMC's poor pacing was immediately noticeable.

At least three episodes needed two parts: Keep Calm and Flutter On. Here's the full explanation (from my review): The central flaw in that episode really hurt its objective quality. To claim the poor pace as a "nitpick" is ridiculous. If the central flaw was erased and the episode flowed well, then Discord's redemption would've been half as convincing. Expanding it into a 48-hour two-parter would've been an objectively better backbone and, thus, give both Antonio and Polsky the better ability to write a better KCaFO. Magical Mystery Cure: Two gigantic ideas were cramped into one twenty-minute session, and you can tell how fast the episode was going simply by dumping the exposition and cramming all of the songs (many cut for time) to fit it all. The pace was the central flaw, because everything leading up to it went boom, boom, boom with no time to breathe or build up. I wrote a rough plan to rewrite it (as a two-parter) here. Power Ponies: The entire episode is so poorly structured, I'm forced to take back my claim of this being a good Spike episode. You have a radically new environment with the Mane Six gaining completely different powers, all of whom got used to their new powers too quickly. When you have Spike's role contained in repetitive expositions every three minutes, you're telling your audience how sloppy the pace is. Then you have character progression, interaction, and development sacrificed for explosive action; characterization and fantasy violence don't coexist too well most of the time, and in self-contained episodes, they look worse. Making PoP a two-parter would've expanded Maretropolis, given Mane-iac better ability to develop, and give the three writers better capability to interact characterization, action, and the moral without sacrificing quality.

So far, she's the breakout character. While the others have been inconsistent (*cough*Twilicorn and Spike*cough*), minus her role as background pony in Daring Don't, she's been up and center in so many hilarious roles, from wearing the hazmat suit to stay away from the vampire fruit bats (with a hilarious first-person perspective), restoring the castle by trespassing into it (and suffering some delicious karma), and Generosity's reprise.

The Rainbow Power designs are very bad for one primary reason: They're so noisy. The bright colors clash way too much with the characters' set palette. The very bright colors don't work on Twilight, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, or Applejack because they're so bright, it hurts the eyes. The only one that actually looks tolerable is Fluttershy because of her muted imagery. It widens the color palette so much, the characters become unmemorable. Besides the simple silhouette, each character has a specific color palette they adhere to. When you see one color, your brain immediately thinks of that character. Each character uses only a few colors because less is more. Good character design is like a good logo; the simpler the design, the better they can remember it. Here, this obvious toy plugin is trying to go the opposite, and that hurts the characters' images. For several characters, the designs are very out of character. Despite being a flaunt, Rarity is also a very reserved character and wouldn't enjoy having all of the extremes clashing her. The same can be said for Twilight and Applejack. There are so many nuances, the designs become way too complicated. You have all of these details on the face, hooves, mane, tail, horn, muzzle, and flank. The more details the characters have, the busier they look, and the more distracting the designs become.

I don't know. From the way the toys are being promoted, they seem to be only a temporary thing. We'll have to see once the designs appear.