Talk:Equestria Games/@comment-26973802-20140718232118/@comment-10390252-20140719132713

I, personally, was very disappointed with how the Games were handled and how they were shown. Potentially, I feel that they could have canned several of the weaker character episodes like Somepony to Watch Over Me and Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3 in favour of a mini-arc at the Games. Conceivably, these could have dealt with the same issues (Applejack's anxiety for her family and Rarity's ongoing issues with fantasy vs reality, in these examples).

I would have liked to have seen the full aerial relay. Maybe we could have seen other events like the Sprint in which Thunderlane was going to compete and some non-Pegasi events; maybe AJ in the Iron Pony Pentathalon and Rarity in a hoof-to-hoof martial arts discipline.

I think that DHX never intended the Games to be anything but a brief one-off throw-away and were seriously surprised by the expectations they created, thus the rather weak attempt to go with the hype in their publicity for the episode.