Talk:My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Summertime Shorts/@comment-10390252-20170813080920

After [Fame and Misfortune's finger-wagging at fans that so failed to retain its good humour that it became uncomfortable to watch, I really needed something purer and more innocently fun.

Fortunately, Pinkie being her usual sugar-driven, hyperactive and thoughtless but always well-intentioned nexus of chaos is always welcome. What is interesting and new (and could easily have been expanded into a full 21-minute episode, IMO) is the concept of Pinkie suffering artistic block and trying to overcome it in various ways that reminds us just how imaginative and artistic she is.

Even the more cringy bits of Pinkie overdoing it were welcome. Personally, I think that 'cringy' is a key aspect of any Pinkie-focussed episode. Her 'no behaviour filter' quirk is a defining characteristic of her and is usually a major aspect of both the problem and the resolution of the week.

That aside, I wonder if art & crafts class at CHS has 'Post-Pinkie Clean-Up' built into every lesson plan?

Actually, now I think about it, that's the second short we've had that could and should have been a full episode, the first being last week's Pet Project. I'm sort of torn by this. On the one hand, this vindicates Hasbro's decision to give us a full season next year. On the other hand, I can't help but wonder how many episode ideas are going to be thrown away with these shorts and forever condemned to never be properly explored as they've "already been done".

All in all, The Art of Friendship was a welcome breath of fresh air for me.