Talk:Episodes which stink !!/@comment-99.17.222.79-20120323211532

I see what you mean by Season 2 being unfair, but to be 'fair,' season 2 is when the show was allowed to open up, in a matter of speaking. Think about this, until the events of season 2 episode 3, the show had a rather strict rule of Twilight writing a letter to Princess Celestia in order to give the moral of a given episode. Because of this rule, it was required that Twilight be in every episode so that could happen. If you think about it, some of the season 1 episodes could have easily been done without Twilight, Stare Master being the most obvious example. Not to say that the episodes were worse for it, it was just a restriction. But they remedied that in Lesson Zero, when they not only allowed other ponies to write the letters, but Celestia didn't need a letter every week like Twilight thought (note that that could be an in reference to the show itself since new episodes usually aired once a week.) Because they lifted this rule, it allowed the writers more freedom to write, without the requirement of including Twilight in every episode. So in that light, season 2 was a chance for the writers to write some of the stories they could have written in season 1 without that restriction. Of course, I don't know what is in store for season 3 yet, (and season 1 wasn't exactly balanced either since we got a large bulk of Applejack, Twilight, and Rainbow episodes in the beginning and the bulk of Fluttershy and Rarity episodes towards the end) but I'll look forward to seeing what they do either way, imbalanced or unfair or not.