QUOTE(Tenboro @ Dec 30 2012, 22:31)
That's not really fair. The Mysterious Mare-Do-Well was bad, but she also wrote Hearth Warming's Eve, Putting Your Hoof Down and Wonderbolts Academy, all of which were good episodes.
Yeah, but when Merriwether does good, she does good. But she treats the characters as much more malleable than she should. She throws away character traits for the sake of the script sometimes.
The Mysterious Mare Do Well: The episode was fun, but the resolution... The show is about friendship, you don't do that one of your friends, and expect to keep that friend.
Hearth's Warming Eve, Only criticism I have given the scenario that the backstage fighting felt a little forced.
Putting Your Hoof Down, This was a good episode, only gripe is over an animators choice to decay Fluttershy's house withing a the space of a week.
Wonderbolts Academy, Didn't how obsessed Pinkie Pie got towards the Mailbox. She's had to deal with Friends going away on trips before. The were other ways to get the other five down the academy other than Pinkie obsessing over the possibility of the element of loyalty forgetting her friends.
Spike at Your Service, She didn't just bend Spike, she completely broke his character. He's not clumsy or incompetent. But this is how she depicted him. The only account of him being clumsy before this episode is that fake scare he provided in the beginning of Birdie Gossip.
What also upsets me is that Merriwether also wrote Dragon Quest. That was also a dedicated Spike episode, but he didn't act anything like he does in Spike at Your Service, his downcomings in that episode came from being in over his head. She didn't write him as clumsy or incompetent in that episode, why did she write him as such in this episode?
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