While mostly liking Pinkie Pie and liking a good deal of her episodes, she is not always consistently characterised and not all her episodes are great. A good deal of the time she is very amusing and cute, and even better when she has a human side that makes any learn from mistake moments ring true. At other times, she can be very annoying as a result of writers going too far on any of her negative character traits. Both those extremes have happened with all the episodes with her a dominant focus.
"Too Many Pinkie Pies" is one of the best Pinkie Pie-centric episodes in my view and one of the ones to be on point with her characterisation. Also one of the best Season 3 episodes and the first great one after the uneven "The Crystal Empire". "Too Many Pinkie Pies" has one of the most original concepts of the season, of the early seasons and even of the show, and luckily it makes the absolute most of it and beyond. Nothing wasted here at all.
My only complaint of "Too Many Pinkie Pies" actually is that Twilight not being able to tell the Pinkie Pies apart did for me require some suspension of disbelief.
Everything else works superbly, making for one of the best episodes of Season 3. The attention to detail in the animation is to be admired, while the animation was always great in the show Season 3 in general was seeing more polish and richer detail, and everything with the cloning boasts some imaginative moments visually. The music is not too constant and doesn't overbear, the placement right on. Have never had a problem for the theme song, though have always preferred most of the songs sprinkled throughout the show's run. 'My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic' was very good often at providing messages and morals worth addressing and relating to and not doing it in a too heavy manner, there were times where this aspect was botched but most episodes did very well at this and "Too Many Pinkie Pies" is one of them. Giving the episode and Pinkie Pie acknowledging her wrongs more depth.
It is one of the best written Dave Polsky-penned episodes, his best written episode up to this point of the show by some way in my view. It is intelligent and beautifully balanced, with emotional depth (where one sees a human side to Pinkie Pie, who is easy to relate to here while being in character and having flaws which are learnt from), tension and hilarious humour. The Generation Three bit is a scream. The concept for "Too Many Pinkie Pies" is one of the show's most original and execution-wise this is up there with the episodes that handled their concepts particularly creatively. On both counts, it really does stand out among the rest of the show's episodes. Loved the cloning concept, handled inventively and freshly and for a story centered around cloning its approach is quite unique.
Story-wise and in writing, "Too Many Pinkie Pies" is great fun and sometimes moving. Some of it, such as the ending (one of the best endings of 'My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic' in memorability and imagination), is surprisingly disturbing by the show's standards without being gratuitously so. Pinkie Pie's characterisation is nailed, in one of not enough episodes to completely nail her without any reservations. Fantastic comic timing with healthy doses of humanity, her regret buyable. Aided further by terrific voice work from Andrea Libman.
Overall, absolutely great and one of the season's best. This is how to do a great, unique concept and do it justice and not too ordinarily. 9/10
"Too Many Pinkie Pies" is one of the best Pinkie Pie-centric episodes in my view and one of the ones to be on point with her characterisation. Also one of the best Season 3 episodes and the first great one after the uneven "The Crystal Empire". "Too Many Pinkie Pies" has one of the most original concepts of the season, of the early seasons and even of the show, and luckily it makes the absolute most of it and beyond. Nothing wasted here at all.
My only complaint of "Too Many Pinkie Pies" actually is that Twilight not being able to tell the Pinkie Pies apart did for me require some suspension of disbelief.
Everything else works superbly, making for one of the best episodes of Season 3. The attention to detail in the animation is to be admired, while the animation was always great in the show Season 3 in general was seeing more polish and richer detail, and everything with the cloning boasts some imaginative moments visually. The music is not too constant and doesn't overbear, the placement right on. Have never had a problem for the theme song, though have always preferred most of the songs sprinkled throughout the show's run. 'My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic' was very good often at providing messages and morals worth addressing and relating to and not doing it in a too heavy manner, there were times where this aspect was botched but most episodes did very well at this and "Too Many Pinkie Pies" is one of them. Giving the episode and Pinkie Pie acknowledging her wrongs more depth.
It is one of the best written Dave Polsky-penned episodes, his best written episode up to this point of the show by some way in my view. It is intelligent and beautifully balanced, with emotional depth (where one sees a human side to Pinkie Pie, who is easy to relate to here while being in character and having flaws which are learnt from), tension and hilarious humour. The Generation Three bit is a scream. The concept for "Too Many Pinkie Pies" is one of the show's most original and execution-wise this is up there with the episodes that handled their concepts particularly creatively. On both counts, it really does stand out among the rest of the show's episodes. Loved the cloning concept, handled inventively and freshly and for a story centered around cloning its approach is quite unique.
Story-wise and in writing, "Too Many Pinkie Pies" is great fun and sometimes moving. Some of it, such as the ending (one of the best endings of 'My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic' in memorability and imagination), is surprisingly disturbing by the show's standards without being gratuitously so. Pinkie Pie's characterisation is nailed, in one of not enough episodes to completely nail her without any reservations. Fantastic comic timing with healthy doses of humanity, her regret buyable. Aided further by terrific voice work from Andrea Libman.
Overall, absolutely great and one of the season's best. This is how to do a great, unique concept and do it justice and not too ordinarily. 9/10
