Least Favorite Episode?

[Arctic Night 884]

Secret of My Excess is the one episode that I don't approve of, and I detest it. The character development was minimal and Spike's self conflicts were uninteresting at best.

 

Although, I can't complain too much about any other episodes, which is a good sign.

[LZRD WZRD 1,929]

There's a multitude of problems I have with that episode, and yes, Rarity's characterization is a big one. However, glorification of RD, making her go from confident and brave to a sniveling coward who repeatedly did things to get around something she always brags about being amazing at, and the crap with the Wonderbolts all wrapped in a bunch.

 

Basically, they martyred off 4 characters, even going as far as to make a good-natured character a bit antagonistic, all to make RD look good in the end and offer little to no closure to the 4 they pawned off - to top it off, this is a show about friendship, and the fact that they martyred off those characters to glorify one is just depressing and goes against the whole meaning of the show. Would it be as interesting of an episode without misusing those 4 characters? Of course not - but goddammit, at least stay true to what the show is about instead of blatantly misusing characters for story's sake. I'd rather that episode not be one at all, because it's literally the anti-thesis of the show in the sense that they used one of RD's friends in a bad light in order to make RD herself look better, as well as just making the Wonderbolts inept for the cherry on top. Screw that episode, it holds the dubious honor being the only episode I absolutely refuse to rewatch.

 

I'm going to write a blog bashing the hell out of it sooner or later. My hatred for that episode is one that can't be fixed, really. It's just a shitty, shitty episode and I hate it.

 

Yeah I can understand why you don't like Rarity's characterization in the episode. However, I gotta disagree with you about Dash. I think it was clear why she had performance anxiety: she had to do something that she was pretty sure she wouldn't be able to do. I don't see a problem there.

 

As for the Wonderbolts, they got knocked out. They probably didn't expect Rarity to kick them in the face lol. I don't see what's so horrible about that.

 

Larson probably overdid it with Rarity, but I don't think the moral/conflict goes against the meaning of the show at all. Conflicts like this are a major part of real life relation/friendships. So I don't see what you're getting at there.

 

I kinda don't like the ending of the Cutie Mark Chronicles either, but that's more because I hate when writers bring fate into stories (mostly because it's a ideology I don't subscribe to). However, I don't really see the problem with Rainbow Dash herself being responsible for everyone's cutie marks.

[ghostfacekiller39 23,860]

Yeah I can understand why you don't like Rarity's characterization in the episode. However, I gotta disagree with you about Dash. I think it was clear why she had performance anxiety: she had to do something that she was pretty sure she wouldn't be able to do. I don't see a problem there.

She's proven to be a more than competent flyer several times before that episode, and she constantly bragged(s) about it as well. Quite frankly, her amount of confidence is just really something that is a bit irritating to me at times, and to see someone who's generally so boisterous and overconfident just become sniveling and cowardly still bothers me - especially since I somewhat appreciate RD's cockiness as it adds a more interesting dynamic to the mane 6 and helps enforce that this show isn't 6 flawless ponies doing things like having tea parties. She may be my least favorite of the mane 6, but honestly, RD was a coward in that episode and I don't like that. She's shown that she's not only possessed, but displayed an attitude of how others should do as well with a "put up or shut up" type ordeal, and the fact that it makes her look like a hypocrite makes me even more displeased with this putrid pile of rubbish that some can call an "episode."

 

 

 

As for the Wonderbolts, they got knocked out. They probably didn't expect Rarity to kick them in the face lol. I don't see what's so horrible about that.

They're world class flyers - they should've easily been able to avoid it, especially with the flying skills they've not only displayed, but are required to possess to be a Wonderbolt. If they're going to get knocked out from a single kick to the face and end up falling to their despair, are they really the world class flyers that they're made out to be? Especially since there was 3 of them and one Rarity

 

 

 

Larson probably overdid it with Rarity, but I don't think the moral/conflict goes against the meaning of the show at all. Conflicts like this are a major part of real life relation/friendships. So I don't see what you're getting at there

"Probably" is an understatement. There is NO excuse for taking a well-meaning character and using her flaws not for her own progression, but to make her an antagonist to help further another character's development, and then humiliating her and offering her no closure. NEVER, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, IS THAT ACCEPTABLE FOR A WRITER TO DO TO A MANE CHARACTER. They literally took one of the things that she was all about - which was being flawed but genuinely good-hearted and well meaning - and screwed around with enough to turn her into a total bitch for no good reason other than to further develop a different character. 

 

"Friendship is Magic" - if this show is about motherbucking friendship, you're not supposed to take a character and turn them inside out and screw around with them enough to make them cringe-worthy and antagonistic only to use her as a martyr to help develop one of her friends. That's not friendship at all.

 

That's humiliating and degrading a great character so her friend looks better. Fuck that, that's poor writing.

 

 

 

I kinda don't like the ending of the Cutie Mark Chronicles either, but that's more because I hate when writers bring fate into stories (mostly because it's a ideology I don't subscribe to). However, I don't really see the problem with Rainbow Dash herself being responsible for everyone's cutie marks.

Because, quite frankly, this show is about friendship. True friendship, like the one the mane 6 has been shown to possess with each other time and time again, doesn't mean that one friend is the one who decided their whole fates by doing something as pointlessly OP as a Sonic Rainboom. That episode glorified RD's character and made her look better than she really is, to be honest, and that bugged me - she's a good character, but she's not some fate-deciding god-like deity, and that's what they passed her off to be in that episode, which bothers me enough to ruin an otherwise good episode.

Edited June 14, 2014 by ghostfacekiller39

[LZRD WZRD 1,929]

She's proven to be a more than competent flyer several times before that episode, and she constantly bragged(s) about it as well. Quite frankly, her amount of confidence is just really something that is a bit irritating to me at times, and to see someone who's generally so boisterous and overconfident just become sniveling and cowardly still bothers me - especially since I somewhat appreciate RD's cockiness as it adds a more interesting dynamic to the mane 6 and helps enforce that this show isn't 6 flawless ponies doing things like having tea parties. She may be my least favorite of the mane 6, but honestly, RD was a coward in that episode and I don't like that. She's shown that she's not only possessed, but displayed an attitude of how others should do as well with a "put up or shut up" type ordeal, and the fact that it makes her look like a hypocrite makes me even more displeased with this putrid pile of rubbish that some can call an "episode."

 

 

 

They're world class flyers - they should've easily been able to avoid it, especially with the flying skills they've not only displayed, but are required to possess to be a Wonderbolt. If they're going to get knocked out from a single kick to the face and end up falling to their despair, are they really the world class flyers that they're made out to be? Especially since there was 3 of them and one Rarity

 

 

 

"Probably" is an understatement. There is NO excuse for taking a well-meaning character and using her flaws not for her own progression, but to make her an antagonist to help further another character's development, and then humiliating her and offering her no closure. NEVER, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, IS THAT ACCEPTABLE FOR A WRITER TO DO TO A MANE CHARACTER. They literally took one of the things that she was all about - which was being flawed but genuinely good-hearted and well meaning - and screwed around with enough to turn her into a total bitch for no good reason other than to further develop a different character. 

 

"Friendship is Magic" - if this show is about motherbucking friendship, you're not supposed to take a character and turn them inside out and screw around with them enough to make them cringe-worthy and antagonistic only to use her as a martyr to help develop one of her friends. That's not friendship at all.

 

That's humiliating and degrading a great character so her friend looks better. Fuck that, that's poor writing.

 

 

 

Because, quite frankly, this show is about friendship. True friendship, like the one the mane 6 has been shown to possess with each other time and time again, doesn't mean that one friend is the one who decided their whole fates by doing something as pointlessly OP as a Sonic Rainboom. That episode glorified RD's character and made her look better than she really is, to be honest, and that bugged me - she's a good character, but she's not some fate-deciding god-like deity, and that's what they passed her off to be in that episode, which bothers me enough to ruin an otherwise good episode.

 

Fair enough. You should definitely expand upon this in a blog post, cause you make some good points

[ghostfacekiller39 23,860]

Fair enough. You should definitely expand upon this in a blog post, cause you make some good points

Heh. Thanks for the compliment It takes a lot for me to dislike an episode, and I've liked pretty much every episode besides the ones I've listed I'm not picky, but I feel "Sonic Rainboom" royally screwed up to an unforgivable amount

Edited June 14, 2014 by ghostfacekiller39

[Ashen Pathfinder 16,162]

S1: Call of the Cutie, Show Stoppers, Bird in a Hoof

 

S2: Family Appreciation Day, Baby Cakes, Dragon Quest

 

S3: Spike at Your Service, Just for Sidekicks

 

S4: Simple Ways, Twilight Time, Somepony to Watch Over Me

 

It's not that these episodes were bad; just that they were extremely awkward at times or just plain frustrating to watch at times. Twilight Time and Dragon Quest are both especially guilty of this for me; even if they did have their good moments.

[iceestarz 5,765]

Boast Busters: Trixie. I can't stand Trixie as a character.

 

Dragon Quest: not a fan of Spike, but this one was boring and forgetful.

 

Magic Duel: again, Trixie.

 

Daring Don't: I don't like Daring Do to begin with,so that's what first hurt my opinion on the episode. I really didn't like the way the mane six acted, you know just watching Daring fend off the dang ponies without any clue to oh I don't know....HELP HER.

 

Other than that I'm pretty cool with the other episodes.

[Mr. The Dragon 16]

Friendship Is Magic Pt. 2: Terrible pacing, introduced each of the ponies' elements very poorly.

Look Before You Sleep: Every single character is OOC and annoying.

Bridle Gossip: Look above.

The Show Stoppers: An extremely boring episode loaded with filler that revealed the CMC's talents in their THIRD EPISODE.

A Bird In The Hoof: Boring and gross.

Owl's Well That Ends Well: A boring episode that villainizes Spike and lacks in logic.

Baby Cakes: Breaks all previously established continuity.

One Bad Apple: Portrays bullying in an unrealistic manner and teaches a bad moral.

Apple Family Reunion: Boring and predictable.

Keep Calm And Flutter On: Terrible pacing, makes Fluttershy unlikeable, and teaches a bad moral.

Power Ponies: The mane 6 literally have the same exact powers in real life. Only here, for whatever reason, they can't use them.

Rainbow Falls: Every character is OOC, lacks in having a sensical plot.

[Adorkable 2,737]

I actually love them all, don't know if I could pick a least favorite.

 

Well, maybe the one where the CMCs preform in the talent show, just off the top of my head.

[DukeofCanterlot 158]

I explain this more on the FiMFiction blog but the Breezies episode was the worst.

It's the only episode I ever watched when I thought this was geared only to little girls..

 

This makes it worse than Mare Do Well for me which I never thought would be possible... And from an episode where the writing wasn't bad (except for that wtf deux ex machina at the end) and the characters weren't OOC...both were things which made MDW terrible, but something much worse struck the Breezies... Just watch Hasbro's toy commercial at the end. A great episode? Yea, a great one for Hasbro. If the Breezies Mane 6 toy line hits it big, I think it's going to be Hasbro's favorite episode.

[WarriorShy 48]

1. Twilight Time: I just didn't like it it was hjdsiuvndfhbejsnfg 

 

2.Spike at your Service: -_-

 

3:Power Ponies: OMG it took 3 writers to make an episode and it even fail

 

4: Mysterious Mare do Well: This episode is the reason I hate RD, she was my favorite

 

5:Apple Family Reunion: Horrible plot and horrible song

 

6:It aint easy being breezie: I like Seabreeze, I didn't like the how they introduce the breezies 

 

7: Maud Pie: I didn't like how they introduced her and Twilight shouldn't be easy friends with her?!?! after all she is the "princess of friendship" OMG  

Edited June 25, 2014 by WarriorShy

[Harpuia 68]

What is your absolute least favorite episode of FIM? For me, it's currently Boast Busters. I mean, I don't get how people can like that episode. Trixie may have been kind of a bitch, but she was the innocent one. Not only that, but the mane six were heckling her. When you're on stage and someone is heckling you, you're supposed to respond harshly and put them in their place. Also it introduced Snips and Snails.

 

Just for the sake of variety let's pretend that Mare-Do-Well, Spike at your service, and Magical Mystery Cure never happened. 

[ghostfacekiller39 23,860]

I don't dislike Mare Do Well, tho :V

Anyway, for me it's Sonic Rainboom. Screw that episode. Screw everything about it. I have written post after post about why I hate that episode, and I'm not going to reiterate myself. I just can't stand that episode.
 

[BayoUni2847 528]

I'm gonna have to say my least favorite was Winter Wrap Up. Personally, I didn't care for a lot of the songs in Season 1, especially the ones from Winter Wrap Up.

 

The episode felt kind of boring to me.

[Kyoshi Frost Wolf 41,725]

Pinkie Sense. Hated the moral and hated how the moral was put forth. I liked the episode, I will say that, but how the moral was handled was poor in my opinion.

 

Beyond that, nothing comes to mind.

[Scootalove 10,689]

I'll be honest here with an obvious answer of the episode that I hate, Rainbow Falls. Bad characterization, a forced moral, and plot holes across the board. Okay, done.

[M'aiq the Liar 5,804]

I don't really hate any episode of FiM, as even the worst episodes that people put entire books into explaining why they hate them can be at minimum decent, with the only piece of FiM media I do not find enjoyment in being EqG (as I despise cliche 80s highschools). Off the top of my head right now, I cannot find an episode I fully dislike. hrmm

 

I guess if I were really forced to pick one I highly disliked, it would be rainbow falls.

From spirt fire being turned into an antagonist for the sake of the plot, to Twilights " not making a choice isn't choosing" (when in fact it is).

I guess over a barrel also comes in, as the whole episode was really fun, and gave us a new area but just seemed really outa place for Applejack (seeing how up until that point her family had been pretty much 1/4 of her character traits).

Edited June 19, 2014 by Miaq_The_Truthful

[Dattebayo 2,850]

Hate?

Hmm....for a man with a library of hate...I don't think I--

 

WAIT. Hearts And Hooves day . F*ck that episode. It's all..eugh...lovey-wovey. Very cringeworthy.

[Keen Blade 64]

I can't really say that I hate or even really dislike any episode at all, not even the ones that are apparently regarded poorly by many, such as MMDW.

[Ace O. Jade 122]

I came into this post expecting my second favorite episode, Baby Cakes, to be on your list of obvious bad episodes. I am pleasantly surprised.

 

Anyways, I enjoyed all the episodes to some extent, but to this day I cannot rewatch certain scenes from Secret of my Excess (namely the first half in which Spike forces other ponies to give him presents) or The Equestria Games (namely when Spike sings) (I really dislike Spike's character).

[Dark Qiviut 22,445]

Easily Rainbow Falls (a.k.a., season four's worst episode), and I wrote a whole review tearing it apart here. Besides the background and Derpy, nothing in this episode went right. The characters are out of character and shoehorned. The concept is completely contrived. Continuity from previous episodes is broken, including its OWN continuity. Spitfire and Fleetfoot are assholes for the sake of it and were never punished for it. The exposition is easily some of the most painful, and the dialogue is unbelievably stupid. From top to bottom, it's perhaps the most broken in the whole show.

Edited June 19, 2014 by Dark Qiviut

[SparklingSquirrels 21,352]

My least favorite, aside from MDW, are the Canterlot Wedding episodes. I didn't like how Cadance and Shining Armor popped up out of nowhere. :/

[ghostfacekiller39 23,860]

nothing in this episode went right.

 

Bad characterization, a forced moral, and plot holes across the board.

It's Corey Powell, though (._. ) 

 

That's what we should be expecting by now

 

[Scootalove 10,689]

It's Corey Powell, though (._. ) 

 

That's what we should be expecting by now

 

Oh ghostie, will you ever let it go? I guess not.

[Megas 27,764]

Simple Ways and Mmmystery of the Friendship Express, for similar reasons I dislike MMDW