More On Daring Don't

Tommy Oliver (aka BronyCurious) pretty much sums up how I feel about this episode in four minutes.

Daring Don't, Please, Just Don't

Wow. Dave Polski wrote another episode I dislike. It's like some kind of superpower, but a bad one. Will this be the worst episode of season 4? I sure hope so, because I don't think I could dislike an episode more (this is probably even worse than Over a Barrel and Hearth's Warming Eve, previously the only two episodes I consider having never happened). There's so much to dislike I don't know where to start.

First the good stuff: In the new theme Discord is in Fluttershy's cottage. Well, I never noticed that in the previous episodes, so since it was new to me I'm counting it as a plus. This episode needs all the help it can get and I'm feeling generous.

Now the odd stuff. Stuff that I isn't really Dave's fault, I guess, but stuff that really seemed out of place.

● AJ's voice seemed off for pretty much the entire episode. Did Ashleigh Ball have a cold or something?
● Pony typewriters only have three keys yet they somehow are capable of producing a complete language? Is it like Morse Code?
● In the library Twilight is noticeably taller than Rainbow Dash. Perhaps an alicorn growth spurt? In fact, she's noticeably taller throughout the episode. She looks really weird taller, I don't like it.


Her horn is bigger too. Maybe she got a Swedish made horn enlarger.




And now, the bad. First off, there was absolutely no mention of the keys. I fear the writers will shoe horn them in at the end of the season in yet another rush job. Neither were the glowing eyes from the previous episode mentioned. I'm guessing that was just a throwaway gag.

Why the hay did everypony turn into idiots all of a sudden (except Fluttershy)? They stand there watching as Daring Do gets beat up? Twilight doesn't want to help?

"Sounds to me like we're in way way way over our heads."

You beat Discord. Your argument is invalid. N.O.T.H.I.N.G. is over your heads now. Yes, what Twi said is so absurd that it required seven single letter sentences. Why the fudge didn't she just use her alicorn magic? She could have defeated all the bad guys and retrieved the ring by thinking it, but she didn't.

Daring Do is a real pony, and nopony else knew it? Celestia didn't know about it? It wasn't in any of Twilight's books? Seriously? And she doesn't trust anyone with her secrets, yet she... writes... them... all... down in her books? WHY DO NO POLSKI EPISODES MAKE SENSE WITHIN THE CONTINUITY OF THE SHOW!?

I can't. I just can't keep going. This episode just pissed me off so much. I'm not sure what show I just watched, but  it certainly was not MLP.

20/100.