Talk:Power Ponies/@comment-4604642-20131222064856/@comment-24092299-20131222072428

I agree. Not only that, the plot was extremely saggy. Some ridiculous points:

-In the beginning of the episode, Twilight stresses Spike's need to assist in the castle renovation, but then dissmisses him from doing so.

-The bucket that Spike's foot was in contained soapy water-it should have come right off. Also, the bucket is in the air for about 11 seconds, meaning it went several hundred feet in the air.

-When Spike is calling out the superhero's names, Fluttershy literally materializes from behind Applejack when the camera is postitioned in such a manner to make this impossible.

-Twilight's first few magical spells fizzle-this makes no sense at all.

-When Applejack frees herself from the lamppost, she lands on her head but is unaffected.

-Spike bemoans the rest of the six not needing his help after he tells them what their abilities are and leads them to the Mane-iac's hideout.

-The one background pony in the fighting scenes was duplicated and re-defeated about 20 times.

-Fluttershy's ability seems extremely cruel on the writers' parts. I just got stuck thinking about this line from Putting Your Hoof Down: "Whenever I try to assert myself, I become a monster." For such a horror to her to be her superpower seems weird and just plain mean.

-When Fluttershy is destroying the Mane-iac's weapon, the Power Ponies stand directly underneath the falling debris.

-Guessing that a Maretropolis block is at least 250 feet, Pinkie Pie would have traveled faster than the speed of sound to get the cupcakes in time.

-Finally, the whole comic book's existence is a problem. If the world is real, how did the Power Ponies get there, and where are the real PP's? If there was malicious intent, why did somepony write in the book how to get back? How and why could such a powerful book be sold in a store? If the world was imaginary, how did Pinkie transport the cupcakes back? And so on. I had this same problem trying to make sense of the destiny-swapping spell in MMC.

Plus many others, just didn't want to make a blog post.

I did not overly enjoy this episode. Sure, there were some good parts, but the plot had no depth and had far too many holes. 5/10