Well, Tell Your Tale finally decided to try to do something interesting, because the last episode showed Sunny's mom in a flashback. But they didn't even give her a name, let alone elaborate on what happened to her. And given the way Tell Your Tale progresses, I'm not expecting any follow-up anytime soon. Getting back to G4, Season 8 hit its first stumbling block only four episodes in, and the School of Friendship was already looking like a bad idea because it was a plot restricter rather than

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Ah yes, this episode. I'll bet many of you have been looking forward to this one for quite some time. I mean, the fandom had been all but begging for years for Scootaloo to have a family she could come home to. And once the Ponyville Mysteries books revealed that she was being cared for by her aunts (which were gay), fans only further started anticipating the possibility of Scootaloo finally getting to have a family. But nowadays, everyone seems to hate this episode and hate the family

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Season 9 seemed to go back to Season 7's first half's quality of up and down writing. One episode would be really good, and then the next would be really forgettable at best. That seemed to be the case when we went from the pretty good "The Beginning of the End" to the lackluster rehash of "Castle, Sweet Castle" that was "Uprooted", and then went from the amazing "Sparkle's Seven" to the medicore "The Point of No Return", before getting back to a good level of quality with "Common Ground" that

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So after we finally got a good episode focused on the School of Friendship, we had three episodes in a row that either barely focused on it or not at all, and wasted our time with plots that were either cliche, annoying or just not interesting. And by now leaks were a plenty for what was to come at the end of Season 8, so people were already not looking forward to what was in store later on. And this episode tends to be regarded as another bad episode of Season 8. It certainly doesn't have the

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As the gap between Seasons 2 and 3 stretched on for a while, the Brony fandom took off in full steam. Anticipation and speculation ran wild about could possibly be in store for Season 3. The show's future looked bright. But as time went by with no news of a Season 3 on the horizon the fans started to grow worried. And then rumors started circulating that Season 3 would be the final season, the show would end with Twilight Sparkle becoming an alicorn princess and other controversial changes.

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Although not originally intended to be the first half finale for Season 2 (that was "Hearth's Warming Eve" before it was bumped up to air in time for the holidays in 2011), this episode would close out Season 2's first half. Interestingly, it's come to light through recent leaks that a different episode was planned originally that would've involved Mrs. Cake's pregnancy directly. Ponies would be mentioning it through things like "Bun in the oven" and "Special delivery" and Pinkie would get

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So, for the last episode before the big finale, what was in store for us? A Pinkie Pie episode written by Meghan McCarthy, the same Meghan McCarthy who had proven not to have the best understanding of the character given "Green Isn't Your Color". This episode is regarded as a sleeper hit, an episode that no one was expecting to be as good as it was. But has it deserved that reputation? Well, let's find out.

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So after a two parter pilot that was fairly impressive and a revised pilot that was considerably less impressive, the show really needed something to indicate what to expect from it and reassure people that it was indeed worth watching. With a writing team now fully assembled, Amy Keating Rogers was given the honor of penning the first truly stand alone episode of the show and what many consider to be Applejack's best focus episode. Has it deserved that reputation, and is it a relatively solid

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