Re-watched Hearth's Warming Eve · 9:14am Sep 17th, 2012
When I look back on that one and compare it to every other Christmas episode other shows have done, I realized it's not that great, and I found another reason to look down on Williams's slipshod writing ability.
Basically, the moral was that you have to have your associates passively be okay with each other without you needing to actually do anything to remedy the situation.
I thought that based on the name "Hearth's Warming Eve", the holiday was made to commemorate the event when pegasi, unicorns and Earth ponies got together under the harshest conditions and started accepting each other, instead of squabbling over petty things like "unicorns are snobs/pegasi are brutes/Earth ponies are dumb". IDK if Williams has ever done a Christmas episode before, but this definitely wasn't her best. We could have had Princess Platinum taking in the silly Chancellor Puddinghead out from the cold, or Commander Hurricane diving into a ravine to save one of the non-pegasus ponies as a conscientious act, or Smart Cookie knocking it off with the sarcasm and helping Clover the Clever dig out Princess Platinum out of a pile of snow after an avalanche hit them. It could have been epic. I thought of the words "juvenile writing" and "two-dimensional" watching this.
The holidays are approaching, and I'm setting myself up to watch a movie like The Grinch and 90s Nickelodeon shows just to refresh my feelings about Christmas.
Also, am now thinking of a rewrite of that ep, partly to make myself feel better, but mostly to send a better message about what Christmas really is all about, as a reminder.
Hey... another who finds that episode lacking... I would have gone for something way more epic than the flimsy thing they wound up trying to pass off as the end to the conflict. But I would also have written more Flutterdash shipping into it too
because I think they make a wonderful couple. There were some good moments sure... but they could have done better... way better.
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It's also one of those episodes that should have been a straight-to-video release that's an hour and a half long. So much potential.
364848 if it was that long they could have done it justice... most good christmas specials are at least an hour long episode anyway. Then they could have gone into depth on what each was facing and had some character building time for each tribe by themselves as well as together.
Just immagine the Flutterdash potential in an hour (or hour and a half) long episode. It could have sooooo much cute!
Sorry... I'm writing Crashing Angels right now... so my mind is solely on two cute ponies and I think the people who are in charge of MLP could have done much better...
Flutterdash FTW!