Talk:Pinkie Pie/@comment-81.183.37.146-20130325210347/@comment-32136229-20130326075053

I thought the quality of her characterization has suffered since Season 2 with episodes such as The Last Roundup and MMMystery on the Friendship Express, both written by AKR.

It seems that with Season 2 and 3, she has been portrayed as more of a gag character rather than a character who, while still random, still had good characterization. While I think she was less "LOL RANDOM" in Season 3 compared to Season 2, she did have some moments that overplayed her randomness such as The Crystal Empire, Wonderbolts Academy and Games Ponies Play. This is why I liked Season 1 Pinkie the best. She had really great humor, and while she was pretty random, she was a more balanced character than she was in S2 and S3.

Now, I'm not saying that S2 Pinkie and S3 Pinkie were bad. I think she still had some great moments, and for the most part, she still had good characterization, especially in her own episodes with Baby Cakes, A Friend in Deed and Too Many Pinkie Pies, where she has gotten some great character development. It's just that some of her portrayals outside her own episodes weren't really good for her character, and she comes off as being a character that was random for the sake of being random. Because of this, I liked S2 and S3 Pinkie less than S1 Pinkie.