Talk:Honest Apple/@comment-26210691-20170520162718

I am going to be honest here and say I didn't like this episode at all. I seriously had a hard time watching like 2/3rds of this episode. Only parts I enjoyed were Rarity's shredding (that had me laughing and I expect fan art of this lol) and the ending starting with Strawberry Sunrise and AJ rectifying the situation.

Now I am an artist and went to college and got my Bachelors in Fine Arts (concentration was painting). One of the things required of me was to learn how to give and take constructive criticism. Purpose of this is to help improve the artist's work. I felt ALL the judges weren't giving it. First, I have to call out Rarity on her reasons for wanting AJ to be a judge. Now this was how I interprered her 'reason', "Oh AJ I want you to judge because us professionals in the field aren't very practical when it comes to judging others' works." It felt very insulting in the way she explained her reasoning. I've had my work judged and I can assure you that ALL of them were honest and practical and FAIR in their assestment. You're suppose to be mostly objective. I also felt that 2 of the contestants did a good job of explaining their 'inspirations'. And sadly I did feel that the judges were too subjective and used terms that one of my old professors would say, "They spoke in artistic mumbo jumbo terms". In other words, a whole bunch of nothing. That wasn't always the case, but those moments made me want to pull an Animated James and slam my head on my desk. Still AJ's behavior got progressively worse and I literally screamed, "NOOOOO!!!" when she shook all those feathers off that hat. I was honestly about to rage quick on the episode and I skipped it to when all of the judges and contestants left. A part of me felt bad for Rarity, but at the same time, I still felt part of this was her doing since she wasn't upfront with AJ either and SHE DID ASK HER TO JUDGE! Hoever once Strawberry Sunrise entered the scene things got good.

This episode will more than likely make my worst of the series sadly. I hope this new writer does improve.