Talk:My Little Pony Friendship is Magic/Animated shorts/@comment-1319156-20181219023858

The Great Escape Room felt too much like the Mane Six's subplot in All Bottled Up, only if A) it was made the main focus, and B) made Pinkie Pie look insensitive. Triple Pony Dare Ya wasn't interesting either; it's just Non-Compete Clause in a three-minute window and by the same writer. And Rainbow Dash and Applejack compete because we've never seen that before...(!) Can we have a story idea that hasn't been run into the ground yet? (*coughcough*villain redemption*cough*) Mystery Voice was tolerable at best, and forgettable at worst. Suprisingly, it's the best (or rather, the least tedious) of the shorts, and it wasn't by Kim Beyer-Johnson! (I forget who the writer of that one was.)

Really, there's nothing to dicuss about the shorts. Everything they did (except maybe Mystery Voice, but do correct me if I'm wrong) was done in the main series proper. And done better.

To be honest, I think the writing for MLP in 2018 has been the biggest problem. Season eight was good for the most part, but some episodes like Sounds of Silence felt like they were just coasting along. It's pretty much why I don't like Best Gift Ever; it just feels like a bland, stereotypical Christmas special with the MLP label slapped on top. Maybe a couple of productions this year (Forgotten Friendship, The Mean 6) are uniquely bad, but I just hope this isn't a sign of things to come for season nine.