What's everybodys problem with season 3?

[SOHCAHTOA 51]

???

Are you trying to start an argument?

An opinion of a show is not something wrong, it just means that I don't love exactly what everyone else does. I'm atheist but I don't think religion is wrong; I just hold the opinion that some morals are outdated and cruel. Does that make me a bad person? Because I hold an opinion others disagree with?

 

I'm not saying something like murder is okay, I said they had poor writing. Why is this such a big deal to everyone? Honestly, I am do confused as to why I'm suddenly the offender here.

I'm open-minded. You haven't even met me, how would you know?

 

I don't want to fight. I want to understand why I'm the bad guy here for disliking something. Many other people have said similar things (not necessarily on here) and yet I'm getting hate for what I think...that seems kind of intolerant and disrespectful.

 

I'm perfectly happy to hear what you say, but if it's going to be a purposeful attack on me not so much.

 

I never said you were wrong. Telling your opinion to others does not make you a villain, and I never said it did. You completely missed the point on what I was saying. The thing is, what made you look bad was acting as if someone telling their opinion about your own opinions was something wrong. You talked about it as if you were being bullied, as if the other person was trying to force their opinions on you. You said you're free to show your opinion, but when someone showed their own opinions disagreeing with you you acted as if they were doing something terrible, and that's the hypocrisy I mentioned. I do owe you my apologies though. You at least showed yourself worth of respect, and not as ignorant as I though. I don't wanna discuss about who's right or wrong about which episode was best, because everyone has their opinions, and no one is less right than the other. Just don't act as if anyone disagreeing with you is attacking you personally. Everyone has the right to tell their opinion, and if you don't agree to what someone said, you should either stay quiet, or say why you disagree, not start acting all deffensive.

 

About the thread's actual subject: after some thinking, I have come to the conclusion that the third season really has been the worst season so far. But I know the difference between when I dislike something and when something is actualy bad, and I can tell the quality did not drop from past seasons. It is just using a different formula.

 

The Crystal Empire: I understand why everyone is saying it was boring. I still think it was better than the first two episodes, darker than the first two episodes of the second season (since Discord was still starting the chaos, he didn't get the time for the fire and brimstone and puppetponies), and to be frank, the only parts of A Canterlot Wedding I like are This Day Aria and when Cadance and Shining Armor defeat Chrysalis. So, all in all, it's still my favorite two-parter (whily it didn't had the dynamic of the other episodes, if we were reading the scripts everyone would agree this episode was cooler), and Ssombra is the best villain, for the reason I listed before.

 

Too Many Pinkie Pies: It wasn't bad per see... just boring. They get an episode full of pinkie pies, and pinkie barely has any chance to show her reality warping powers? I say, they wasted a great opprtunity, and it's not the plot of the episode that made it bad, it's how they made the episode.

 

One Bad Apple: That song reminds me of Alvin And The Chipmunks... *shivers* ... Other than that, it was a pretty great episode. Not the best, but it still won big time compared to many episodes of the previous seasons.

 

Magic Duel: Trixie returns as a threatening villain? That in itself sounded awesome before watching the episode, but it was even BETTER THAN I THOUGHT IT'D BE!! It was Awesome!!

 

Sleepless in Ponyville: Episode focused on Scootaloo, made canon what many fans already though about her and RD, RD saves Scoots, and Luna makes an appearance giving advice about how courage is not having no fears or avoiding your fears, courage is staring you fears to DEATH!

 

Wonderbolts Academy: Lots of things were awesome in this episode. I don't even know where to start. The only thing that disappointed me was Spitfire acting as a Drill Seargeant. I know that it's not impossible for a laidback character to act seriously when on job, but I personally think it'd be better to introduce a new character to act as a trainer of the cadets. Other than that, everything was awesome, but specially Sowflake!

 

Apple Family Reunion: Didn't like the song, and Apple Bloom wasn't the only that wanted to hear more about Babs... D: I wanted to learn more about the Apple family, but Applejack didn't let me! In general, I have to say that I liked this episode as much as Applejack, once she realized she wasn't making anyone happy. But I didn't like the song.

 

Spike at Your Service: I've already watched so many shows with an episode with this exact plot. I'm not gonna say MLP is stealing, since I doubt any of what I saw was the original, but I never liked this plot, in any show I watched.

[Anadu Kune 668]

I'm not saying something like murder is okay, I said they had poor writing. Why is this such a big deal to everyone? Honestly, I am do confused as to why I'm suddenly the offender here. I'm open-minded. You haven't even met me, how would you know?

 

I don't think the problem is that you don't like it, its the way in which you present(or presented) your stance. You seem to have a tendency to make very strong and big assertions such as the writing is bad. That as well as saying certain things that are demonstrably wrong or over simplified. In my own topic I believe you stated that in Too Many Pinkie Pies Pinkie simply went from being hyperactive to being sad, which is just wrong, there is more to her reaction than just that. Its fine to state you dislike something, but when you assert something is bad and oversimplify things with statements that are,or are very arguably wrong, people are going to call you out on it.

 

If you had instead said something like "I disliked season three because I felt the writing to be lacking in certain areas" then I think you would have found people more receptive. You would almost certainly still have had people asking why, and finding (or trying to find) flaws in your arguments, but people wouldn't care as much as your first sentence grounded your stance in a more personal perspective rather than one that suggests an objective lack of quality.

 

Your most recent posts seem to be written in a much better fashion to me, with consideration of your own changing taste as well as some elaboration.

[Mephala 2,633]

@@SOHCAHTOA, The fact that you said "prove you wrong" in your post was what set me off; I tend to be a stickler when it comes to someone even implying that I may be wrong. I read into stuff too much.

@@Anadu Kune, Yeah, that was probably not the best way to show how I felt about it, but I'm lazy and it's way easier just to make giant leaps of logic. 

[SOHCAHTOA 51]

's'okay, I admit I should have said it in some other way too. I just get so peeved in situations like that. I have a short fuse. I'll try not to get so angry from now on, or at least not to make any assumptions about you or others before I'm sure I'm right about it. But considering what you said about you, this might not be our last time arguing for no reason. And that's bad. Let's try to avoid it.

Edited January 5, 2013 by SOHCAHTOA

[Castoro Chiaro 181]

Season 3 has been a mixed bag for me, so I'm not sure if I can call it a hit or a miss just yet. I think Season 2 was a hard act to follow, honestly, as the team had hit their stride in terms of writing and episode ideas.

[Discovery Dream 592]

On King Sombra, yeah he didn't get a lot of time on screen but he was still really darned evil. The episodes focused more on the mane cast than the one-time villain and that's a good thing. You never saw Sauron much either, did you?

 

I think Season 3 is different, but not worse or better than the other seasons (that is to say, awesome). I'm a cartoon aficianado, so I'm used to this sort of thing.

[dreaper 136]

I like this season overall. The Crystal Empire opener was ok (bonus points for giving Spike a bigger role), Magic Duel and Too many Pinkie Pies were funny for me. The animation is still great and cute.

 

The only episode of this season that I did not like was "Spike at your service", because they did Spike a disservice he didn't need.

[Galex Dj 173]

I have no problem with Season 3 at all. To me the new season is really fan based and very brillant. To me it's the best season so far, showing improvement in the show very. I think the show is improving a lot, but other people don't really think the same way. I hope the show will keep will keep improving the way it has lately. But I do think that something big should happen to at least one of the main six.

[XUNUSEDXXX 3,459]

A lot of times shows decease over time because people don't get the same awesome feeling as they did the first time they watched it.

I've enjoyed S3 so far, even though most of the episodes (excluding Sleepless in Ponyville, which is the best episode of all time) aren't as good as the previous seasons for me.