*Sigh*, I originally planned to skip over this re-review because I didn't have much new to really say on it. But I felt like it wouldn't be fair to do that when I'm going to re-review the next two two parters, and this would thus be the only two parter (and season finale) I would be skipping. Plus, we now have "The Ending of the End" for an arguably worse season finale with an equally stupid plot twist in the villains department. What's most odd about this two parter is that it's written by two

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Hey, remember how great "Rock Solid Friendship" was from last season? Well, I guess Nick Confalone wanted to do a sequel to it here. I mean after all, Nick is writing this episode and it's focused on Maud and Pinkie. The whole point of this episode was that Maud was getting a boyfriend that Pinkie couldn't stand. Yet many regard this as the first true misstep of Season 8, especially with the ship it introduced. And considering the many blunders Season 8 committed that's saying a lot. But has

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Oh boy, Season 8. It's been a while, hasn't it? After Season 7 became arguably the show's greatest season and marked an improvement in quality, this season arguably almost killed the show's legacy. Even to this day, some regard it as one of the worst if not the worst outright season of the show.

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Fun fact about this episode, because it got bumped around in production order it ended up airing a day after the big 2017 movie premiered in theaters. Coincidentally, this meant we got to see an interesting comparison of Twilight's character because of this episode. Her last two focus episodes had involved "A Flurry of Emotions" and "A Health of Information", largely seeming to pair her up with others even though she was now freed from being Starlight's teacher. A new writer in the form of

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Discord had been noticeably absent from Season 6 up to this point, though this was not entirely by intent considering he was planned to appear in "A Hearth's Warming Tail" but was cut due to time constraints. Spike, meanwhile, had been through his ups and downs that included "Gauntlet of Fire" and "The Times They Are a Changeling". The idea of them sharing an episode was certainly out there, and Season 6 really needed something to get back on track after two duds and an episode about racism

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So after "Castle Mane-Ia" established a new method for delivering the aesop and also teased the prospect of a continued search for the keys, what was next for Season 4? Well, the short answer was not much. The search for the keys would not in fact take up every episode even just in the background, and in what was ultimately a sign to come the show would not commit to the possibility of a story arc. Dave Polsky was brought on to write again despite his track record in Season 3 being rather mixed

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So, just as Season 2 was finally back on the right track with "Hurricane Fluttershy" another polarizing and controversial episode was on tap. M. A. Larson was in the writer's seat here, and by this point Larson's reputation and credibility had taken a nosedive given "The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000" and to a lesser extent "Luna Eclipsed" had shattered the image of him being near perfect. But it was a Cutie Mark Crusaders episode and the CMC had begun to stop fixating on cutie marks in all

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Now we come to the big one. This was the first episode that no one was willing to defend back when it aired, and it still remains often among the show's worst episodes. This episode also marked the debut of the show's first new writer in the form of Merriweather Williams. She had previously worked on Spongebob Squarepants during its first three seasons and had more recently been involved with Adventure Time which sparked the cartoon renissance of the early 2010's. So you'd think

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