User blog comment:DMSwordsmaster/My Little Pony Season 3 Pilot Hype Assassination/@comment-4987919-20121115195719/@comment-1713909-20121117063449

The main problems I see are simple.

1- The writers absolutely fail at giving Cadance any form of characterization to make her any more interesting than a cardboard box.

2- They go and spoil 2/3 of the plot, so about 90% of the fandom knew the plot and the villain before it even occured, taking any form of surprise or shock out of the "Reveal" of the villain, unlike, say, Chrysalis.

3- The plot, when broken down to its bare minimum, is just a rewrite of the plots we've seen so far. Let me break it down. Some new plot point happens. Villain shows up to do bad things. Ponies get Deus Ex Machina item. Bad Guy is gone. END OF PILOT.

Seriously, At least A Royal Canterlot Wedding actually had something different.