User blog comment:DMSwordsmaster/My Little Pony Season 3 Pilot Hype Assassination/@comment-3293097-20121117041025

To a less extreme and caps-lockey emotion agreed. There was no villain backstory or characterization. Cadence wasn't given hardly any character like before. I didn't catch the recycled plot. I see that there was another large shockwave based off of some cheesey something whether it be friendship, love, or crystal pony energy its going to end up like that every time more likely than not. I thought the element of keeping the Crystal Ponies busy and Twilight not ending up being the one saving the day was unique, but it didn't help the expectations people had been building up for the villain being completely nullified. When the spoilers first came out I was excited, but then when the episode came out i really wished I hadn't seen them. As for the return of Discord, I would love to see such, but it might be a bit soon to start recycling villains.