Thrond

To me, the smaller slice-of-life episodes are more important now than the big epic adventures. 

Yeah, as far as the show goes on, Slice of Life episodes are proved to be superior in writting. The comics are adventure heavy with dark theme but they are usually bad-written and discontinuity are over the place, yeah, adventures are not what we want from mlp...

Bonus: Chrysalis killed a cat? WTF She's born in the tree made with dead ponies, WTF. Only in Comics  Yeah, i dont that either even i love ultra violent and gritty movie :))

I kinda dig a fair few of the comics, though that particular arc is just kinda silly. The comics are willing to give characters a lot more emotional complexity, so I feel like that makes the big adventures feel less meaningless and impersonal.