Talk:Common Ground/@comment-4531340-20190506102426

The pacing was a little weird (the episode seems to focus too much on having Rainbow Dash try to change up Quibble in order to impress Wind Sprint, and so the ending feels rushed), and it seemed like they were setting up a subplot with that whole Snips licensing out Snails' autographs thing (like it would affect some match going forward, perhaps that exhibition that Quibble and Wind Sprint).

Despite my misgivings, I did like how the episode tackled something that FiM hadn't tried before - namely, about stepparents trying to get along with their stepchildren, and all the prickly issues that entails (especially the feeling among the kids that the new adult is trying to replace their original parent, even if they can't always articulate it as such). Speaking of my point in parentheses, while Quibble's lack of athleticism provided Wind Sprint a convenient excuse for rejection of him, I kind of get the feeling that even if he was a super athletic guy she would've rejected him, simply because of the feeling that he was intruding into the space occupied by her biological father, which was a touch I quite liked - I feel like she would've found some other facet in which to judge him an inferior stallion to her father.

Overall, an enjoyable episode, but probably not my favorite of the season (if the execution had been a little sharper, it very well might have been).