The Crystal Empire has been called the weakest of the two-parters, and from what it seems, for good reason. The entire episode must sustain itself on the most unnecessary and incredibly forced plot device I have ever heard in my entire viewing of this series: "It's just a test." And yet, I continue to enjoy watching this episode...why exactly? An entire Empire This episode was amazingly stunning on the visual side. Of course, the visuals do improve year after year as everyone from the storyboard
My computer may have bit the dust, but that doesn't mean this blog will! Whenever "Equestria Games" comes up, usually the first thing most people will think of is the hype backlash. We spent a year building up to what amounts to a regular Spike episode. However, I'm going to look past that. How did "Equestria Games" do as a Spike episode? How did it do as a standalone episode on its own? Most importantly, what was the moral and how did it work? Whose episode is it anyway? From the cold open, we'
