Feeling Pinkie Keen

Found 'My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic' very easy to get into, wasn't expecting it to in all honesty when first hearing about it nine years ago. And also found Season 1 a remarkably solid season with a lot of great episodes, with only the odd disappointment. Not bad at all for what for most shows is the "finding its feet" season where it takes time to settle, whereas 'My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic' established its theme and tone very quickly.

To me though, "Feeling Pinkie Keen" is one of the disappointments of Season 1. Up to this point of the season, it's my second least favourite. "Boast Busters" being my least favourite, and that is only from personal opinion and not an objective view. For the record, don't consider any of my opinions and views objective due to not wanting to come across as arrogant, sorry if it has ever come across that way (difficulty controlling my emotions has always been a big weakness of mine due to my Aspergers).

Had no issues with the vibrantly coloured, smoothly drawn and elegantly detailed animation. Nor with the music, which sticks in the head, is used and placed appropriately and any worries about intrusiveness or blandness are very quickly quashed.

Did find much of the slapstick, in one of the season's most slapstick-heavy episodes, cleverly done visually and in timing, and very amusing. Like Spike walking in reverse, scientific names, things falling from sky, a laboratory under the library, can go on and on. It did remind me a little of gags in classic Looney Tunes. The dialogue is smart and has many fun moments, Pinkie is always a joy. The premise is a clever one and made the most of, with a nice amount of variety. Most of the characters are handled with the same amount of distinct personality usually found with them, and Tara Strong is especially good when it comes to the very good voice acting.

At the same time, considering the premise, "Feeling Pinkie Keen" could have been much better. It can feel a touch chaotic in the pace and doesn't always feel focused in tone. Other episodes do much better characterising Twilight, progressing her and giving her more complexity. It was somewhat sad to see her get hurt as many times as she did.

Where "Feeling Pinkie Keen" most falls down is with the moral, which has always sparked the most debate between fans and has always been the episode's biggest criticism (even with those that liked it). For my tastes, it was heavy handed and a complete failure when it comes to sense. Other episodes do so much better having more important and relevant morals worth addressing that one can relate to, here it was not really clear recognising clearly what the moral was even.

Summing up, decent but disappointing at the same time. 6/10

I can't believe this episode ended the way it did! i am simply horrified. No wonder we have an epidemic of misinformation in this post factual era.

6,9/10. This episode isn't that bad but also not that good. It's a pretty funny episode, and the pinkie sense is a cool concept, but it makes some questionable choices. At first glance, in real life, i would also belive that the pinkie sense isn't real, but trough out the whole episode Twilight sees that the pinkie sense is real, but she doesn't want to belive it, like at some point just give up, she's so obsessed to prove pinkie that she's wrong that she doesn't go to check on Fluttershy if she's okay, but to see the looks on Pinkie's face when she realizes nothing is wrong. This episode also likes torturing Twilight a lot for some reason. The Hydra is definetly a positive thing about this episode, it's a cool creature and it creates some very good scenes, but then we get to the lesson... i really don't understand why they had to phrase it like that, it's a pretty bad lesson in my opinion. This episode introduces Pinkie's pet: Gummy, i always found him funny so that's another good thing i guess. Spike and pinkie thinking Fluttershy could explode twice was also pretty funny. I don't want to make the review too long but this episode has also other problem, like when the ponies needed to jump to get to the other side of a cliff to escape the hydra, Fluttershy could just fly or Twilight could just teleport but that would be too easy.