Talk:The Cart Before the Ponies/@comment-25181275-20170118062556/@comment-10390252-20170124113622

This was the poorest episode of the season in my book. A clunky moral delivered with the subtlety of an orbital bombardment in the worst manner possible that was in no way saved by a mediocre song and a hilarious Rarity traumatic flashback.

This episode could have been an excellent entry in the "What do we do now we have our Cutie Marks" arc for the Crusaders. Instead it was a by-the-numbers low-comedy showcase of AJ, Rainbow and Rarity's worst characteristics taken to OOC levels. Meanwhile, the poor Cutie Mark Crusaders are helpless victims and are then blamed for it at the end. Mike Vogel had no excuse and, if this was mostly Ed Valentie's ideas, he should have reined him in and, if necessary, gone to Jim Miller to insist on a rewrite or even for the script to be canned.

This is one episode that I won't be going back to watch ever. It really is that negative an experience for me.