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>>/3985/ > need to go and watch the shorts don't I? nah, I don´t think so. I have checked the exact frame in which she feels satisfied about it. Just the 0:29 moment should reveal where it came from: https://youtube.com/watch?v=WJHld7LxwTs > it just felt too wonky in pacing and too mechanical in its plot for me to enjoy. For me Treelight appeareces felt barren. as for the pacing, I get it because it deals with the plot device, the interactions, adding more aspects of the students (and little details about their hometowns as well) and set it up for a new possible product. In Castle Sweet Castle is in reverse, it needs more interactions or things happening because the castle was created before the episode and the mane 6 were already complete characters that didn´t need another layer in order to make them interesting. As for the barren appearance of Treelight, I understand where you come from and why you find it as a flaw but I think it was like the short plot device that would give time for the rest. I mean, they could have honored the tree and they would notice it sooner or later but you would need like a couple of minutes more and ask themselves in the school what happened to the tree. Although by using this plot device, the clips for the permissions wouldn´t have appeared. > it just felt too much like the cutie map calling people for arbitrary reasons. it´s curious but I think that this time I consider it less arbitrary because the tree has a preference towards them. Call it destiny or whatever but it´s much less random that the tree chooses the students because of what happened in What Lies Beneath in comparison to X characters go to Y place for reasons. > The greatest flaw was the attics of the characters, too long in setup and too mechanical for me. that´s a matter of taste or warmth on what they do. The only that I will say is that they felt like adding little aspects that would make them more unique. The mane 6 were already unique in CSC but the students, in this episode, were developing themselves without doing things related to the school whatsoever and went through this by their own will, putting them in a situation whose interactions drive 100% the story. > I feel on further reflection why this failed in while other /comfy/ episodes succeeded was the lack of time it was spending just living in the setting yeah, especially if you compare this to CSC. One goes in really slow pace while this one needs to do all these things pretty fast. It´s like trying to get development out a Mane 6 episode but at the same time, exposing their own trait as if they were developed. Without those traits, the conflict might have changed and get into different results. > As this seemed to have a much higher negative reaction than other stuff involving them in the later season 8 when we were starting ta get used to them. but the ironic thing is that they have rated this worse than NCC and the fandom said that the students in that episode weren´t guilty. I wonder if the fandom has turned around since that episode or if they were more forgiving during last year. > Especially when both sides aren't butthurt and don't assume that disagreement = hatred of who you are. well, that´s the polarizing route is the easiest one to take and when you have to post fast without many words behind (less characters than Twitter sometimes), it can feel like that. Once you get tired of that mentality or get to have a reasonable argument, the discussion becomes more productive. And yes, I would get bored if one agreed 100% about everything.