Weakest episode? I'm going with MMDW as well; RD got
Flanderized pretty badly, and while I though the basic idea of the episode was cool, it wasn't executed well. Not to mention the whole "Ponyville as disaster zone" thing just didn't feel right.
My other weak episodes are "Cutie Mark Chronicles" and "Over a Barrel". In CMC I didn't find any of the flashbacks that interesting aside from Twilight and Pinkie's because we didn't really learn much about the characters. I mean, of
course AJ isn't going to stay in Manehattan. Although Rarity's flashback to finding a ROCK was hilarious, despite being predictable.
For "Over a Barrel", I think it's that the mane cast was only tangentially related to the plotline; I didn't find the new characters particularly interesting, so the part of the episode I enjoyed most was the stuff on the train in the beginning.
Not to say that any of these episodes are actually
bad, (I enjoyed all of them) but they just seem a bit lackluster compared to the others.
And as far as the
Getting Crap Past the Radar page, the main issue seems to be whether or not implied stuff should be added. I mean, everybody can agree that stuff like "Apple-teeny" counts, but with a lot of the other stuff it comes down to "did the writers intend this, or are the fans just dirty-minded".
edited 19th Jan '12 7:30:27 AM by JapaneseTeeth