Talk:Celestial Advice/@comment-27578467-20170415232910

For about the first third of the episode, I was feeling pretty pleased with how things were shaping up. Not that I was having a great time, but compared to anything from the previous season there was some appreciable amount of enjoyable content, notwithstanding the occasional non sequitur line (or reference to episodes I despise). From about the time when the "hypothetical situations" bit started, however, I felt that familiar sense of dread creep in as I recognized two particular trends from season six making an appearance. First, whole sections of the dialogue/story became highly predictable (of course each 'situation' is going to end poorly and Twilight will be distressed). I will say that there were more clever interjections to break up the predictability compared to season six, but compared to earlier seasons I feel it's still a fair bit behind. Second, dialogue rushed emotional interactions and plot developments far too quickly for either to carry much weight; the mood seemed to switch so readily between comedic and serious/emotional to the degree that I wasn't sure if certain lines of dialogue were meant to be serious or not.

As I rate episodes based on my desire to watch them again, and since the 2nd half of this one just doesn't do anything for me, I give it a 1/5. There were some genuinely clever moments and compared to most of the previous season it shows a lot of promise, but simply put I'll get a lot more from watching most any other non-S06 episode than this one.