Talk:On Your Marks/@comment-23858349-20160316150804/@comment-10390252-20160318105322

One of the problems in writing a focus episode for a three-character group that lasts only 22 minutes is that you don't have much opportunity to explore them as individuals, only as a group. That's why the Crusaders' Nightmares Trilogy (Sleepless in Ponyville, For Whom the Sweetie Belle Toils and Bloom & Gloom) had to be a trilogy.

Similarly, the writer of this episode will be hard-pressed to give any depth to the Crusaders' differing approaches to this matter before having to move on to the solution to the problem. It's even worse if Diamond Tiara or some other external character is key to the solution as then you would have to also spend some time writing their involvement too, reducing further the three Crusaders' own individual contribution.

Thinking about it, I think that it might have been smarter to divide it up into three episodes (or even four, if you want to give the solution a seperate focus).