Talk:Hard to Say Anything/@comment-10390252-20170513184109

So, we've finally learned how My Little Pony handles romance stories (as we should have guessed from how it was done in Legend of Everfree): Farce and slapstick to a near-Shakespearean degree.

Whilst I understand the commercial and legal imperatives behind it - they don't want any fan claiming that they had 'stolen' the story from them, as they would have if they'd gone with say Cheerilee or Fluttershy, I still found the central pairing arbitrary and random.

The song, I believe, was intended to be poor and farcical as that was the theme of the whole episode. As was asking all the characters to juggle idiot balls because, of course, the Crusaders know nothing about romance and everyone knows that romantic attraction makes you stupid, right?

Overall, I was kind of turned off by this episode on several levels; it never really engaged me and I found myself repeatedly skipping ahead (I watched a YouTube video version). Big May and Sugar Belle were kind of cute together but, overall, they felt bland and artificial with no real chemistry at all.

BenRG's Rating: 6/10 - The poorest episode of the season that I've seen so far. Based on this, I think that the show should avoid shipping in future; they clearly don't know how to write it.