The Season 4 Premiere · 5:21am Nov 24th, 2013
My Issues With It:
Making the other mane six seem useless next to Twilight at the Tree of Harmony was a horrible idea.
The second half in general felt underwhelming.
Celestia being frustratingly secretive. Again. More importantly, she is in much need of more characterization in general.
Having Celestia and Luna not do much at all. Why and how exactly did they disappear again? Did Discord's weird plant creation spontaneously capture them somehow?
Zecora's Deus ex Machina potion. Seriously, that thing was way too convenient. How did she know it would only be receptive to alicorn magic?
What I Liked:
Discord is still Discord. They made him good, but not necessarily making him nice, making him a thoroughly enjoyable character overall.
The flashback scenes. They added better backstory and world-building.
The lighting effects are awesome.
No songs!
Returning the Elements back to the Tree of Harmony.
Other Thoughts and Intriguing Ideas:
Pinkie Pie was more annoying than anything else, that bothers me and I hope it gets better.
The Tree of Harmony, what it does, and its connection to Celestia and Luna is still rather vague. Or maybe I just missed something.
Twilight's new alicorn magic looks suspiciously similar to Sombra's. I'm going to hope that "dark magic" isn't as dark as we might think.