Talk:Viva Las Pegasus/@comment-10390252-20160917160653

Actually, I enjoyed that one! We finally get an episode pony villain who is not reformable and is genuinely, contemplatively and unrepentantly bad. This was, IMO at least, My Little Pony's answer to the TV show Hussle, about a group of confidence tricksters who use their skills to fight crime. Naturally, into a concept like this, Flim and Flam fitted perfectly.

If this episode had a flaw, it was this: the MLP episode length doesn't really allow to fully develop a how the heroes set up and deliver a triple-cross like this one. This reduced the quality of schadenfreude that you get at seeing the bad guy hoist by his own wrongdoing in the end.

Oh... and I felt that Applejack and Fluttershy explaining to the audience how they did it at the end was a bit redundant and suggests that the writers didn't entirely trust the audience to have figured that part out themselves.

However, these were quibbles in what was an otherwise wonderfully-charactersised and -plotted episode. Combined with their sterling work on The Times They Are A Changeling, this suggests to me that we may have a new star writing team here on MLP.

A fine episode!

BenRG's Rating: 8/10