I just finished watching on youtube and overall I think it was a gray start to the new season. Everything was in check until I caught my first starwars reference when shining armor first got them off the train. Afterwards it felt like nothing was happening as there was no real build up to the very quickly executed and ended climax. Overall I think these episodes were a great way to kick off the new season. I also heard that the evil stallion ( forgot his name sorry) is going to be a recurring villain in later episodes, unless this is already dated information.