King of Snake

I'm so happy to see Starlight, Discord and Trixie are going to be in the first episode! Nice to see Thorax and the other changelings too.

Also, a special mention for DJ Pon3!

I've watched all the way through twice - including all the Equestria Girls films. Since then I've been watching people on Youtube reacting to the episodes and the films.

I'm pretty sure I'm in a small minority (especially going by IMDb ratings) but my favourite season is 6. My favourite episode however is from season 5: Crusaders of the Lost Mark.

I'm an unknown entity here.

1. Zecora - a controversial choice perhaps but she annoys the hell out of me, and that rhyming thing considerably limits her potential as a character. I cringe every time she's on-screen. The speaking-in-rhyme trait also doesn't suit characters in this type of show - I'd expect to see it in a character from a different type of cartoon series.

2. Snips and Snails - Both annoying, enough said.

3. Maud Pie - a one-joke character that was never funny in the first place.

 

I'm hoping that for Season 7, we won't have:

 

• Any pranking or Daring Do episodes completely revolving around Rainbow Dash
• Very little Pinkie Pie appearance time
• Too many Spike episodes
• Starlight Glimmer having more than four episodes

 

I agree with the first two on your list, but not the second two.

Not at all. I've loved it as much as most previous seasons.

I loved it. It was an unusual episode, and they managed to pack so much into 22 minutes. Also, Pinkie climbing over the train to avoid walking with Rarity and Applejack gave me a big laugh.

I want to see more of Opposite Fluttershy!

Also, why did Opposite Fluttershy refer to Discord as 'sassafras'? Wikipedia tells me it's a type of tree.

I loved that! Best laugh I've had in ages. One of those episodes that makes me really grateful that I decided to start watching MLP.

I'm really looking forward to the Discord/Spike/Big McIntosh episode.

As things stand it's my second least favourite season. I still like it a lot though.

Anyone know when the second half of the season is coming?

Can't believe I missed this. Link is now a My Little Pony character 

 

I don't quite understand what you mean by this. Who is Link?

It was an all right episode, nothing special. The problem was that Fluttershy's brother was annoying - and not annoying in a good way like Discord - just annoying. At first I thought I was going to really hate this episode, but it improved considerably when we came back to Ponyville. There were a few laughs - Fluttershy's brother (why can't I remember his name?) tricking Spike into cleaning all the windows gave me a laugh out loud moment. Plus the song was an unexpected bonus.

Rarity's getting too much screen time this season. Why couldn't Applejack's spa partner have been Fluttershy? We've barely seen her this season and this was an opportunity to balance out the mane six's screen time a bit. Apart from that, I liked this episode. It was a nice 'quiet' episode - nothing major happened, but it was a lot of fun nonetheless. And with Applejack being my favourite of the mane six, I was glad to have an episode based around her. It was also nice to see Spoiled Rich again.

Also, why are there pigs on Applejack's farm? It's not as if ponies eat sausages, is it?

She's my favourite background pony and I'm loving these season 6 appearances. I'm hoping we'll see a lot more of her this season.

I thought it was a pretty good if somewhat unremarkable episode - a bit unusual (not necessarily a bad thing) and quite funny. Actually, the biggest laugh I had was seeing that the DJ upstairs just happened to be DJ PON-3 (is she stalking the mane six?). Three times her name has been mentioned now (twice in this episode) and all three were in season 6. Why is this? Also they seem to pronounce the 'PON' part of her name to rhyme with 'cone'. Am I hearing correctly? Before I heard it spoken I always assumed that it rhymed with 'Jon'. Initially I gave this a 6.5/10 rating, but I think this is the type of episode that will grow on me - I'll have to see when I give it another watch in a day or two.

Here's a wonderful optical illusion that's going around the net. I couldn't figure it out myself...can you?

See the solution here.

Not quite this year for me - it was November last year, so I've been a fan just over half a year now and I still feel like a newbie.

Then why was she referred to as Vinyl in "Slice of Life"?

Where in Slice of LIfe  is she referred to as Vinyl? The episode transcript here turns up nothing.

I thought that was great - an 8.5 out of 10 for me. The story was engaging and the comedy made me laugh. I like what they're doing with Starlight Glimmer - I expected that after being reformed she'd be a meek, obsequious character with no discernible characteristics of her past, but it's clear from this and The Crystalling that she still has a strong personality and continues to display the occasional flash of anger. I was also happy to see DJ Pon3's name become canon at last.

There were some great little references to famous artists during the part where Tree Hugger is being painted:

A Salvador Dali lookalike pony (with his wonderfully distinctive moustache) painting her in a Dali-esque surreal manner.

A Picasso pony doing a Picasso type painting.

An Andy Warhol lookalike doing an imitation of Warhol's famous Marylin Monroe picture.

She wasn't featured prominently in the premiere because its a Starlight episode: Starlight is basically the FIM version of sunset, and there's going to be a HELL of a lot of shilling of her.

What do you mean by 'shilling of her'?

I wasn't really looking forward to this one for a number of reasons. First, I wanted to see more of Starlight and her friendship lessons, second I wasn't sure about an episode with just Pinkie and Rarity from the mane six, and third I'm not a Maud fan. I get why some really like her, but to me she's an uninteresting one-joke character - though admittedly she did make me laugh a few times here. One thing I'd like to ask is: is this the first episode with just Pinky and Rarity from the mane six? To be honest, I can't really remember these two characters interacting much in the past anyway, but then I've got a poor memory for past episodes.

Overall, I thought it was a below-average episode with a weak plot. But on the good side, there were a few funny moments.

Best moment: Rarity imitating Pinkie

Funniest line: "I'm gonna love it five-ever! That's even longer than four-ever."

I don't tend to like season openers all that much, but I liked that. It wasn't fantastic, but it left me with a nice warm feeling inside and a lot of optimism for the rest of the season. The main plot was pretty standard for a season opener - not to mention predictable (I think most of us guessed that Sunburst was going to save the day), but the side plot with Starlight Glimmer was great.

The main thing I'll take from this episode is the Spike/Starlight dynamic. They were great together, and I'm hoping we'll get to see them interacting a lot more in the future.