The main interest point of "PPOV (Pony Point of View)" to me was the way the story was structured. For a Season 6 episode, it's second to only "The Saddle Row Review" when it comes to uniqueness and few of the show's previous episodes had a format like this. Here trying to amend a strained relationship, while having to listen to more than one conflicting points of view. That would have been a tough task for the writers to pull off successfully.
"PPOV (Pony Point of View)" was one of those episodes that didn't do much for me on first watch, finding some of the characterisation too over-the-top and the animosity on the wrong side of strange, but fared quite a lot better on recent re-watch. It's not a perfect episode by any classic or a 'My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic' classic, but it does execute a very interesting but difficult structure a lot better than expected and somewhere around high middle in ranking Season 6's episodes.
Am going to get the negatives out of the way. For my tastes the episode get go a little too over the top on the intense dislike, with the disconnect between the three friends being agreed the equivalent of total strangers. This is something one would expect in a Season 1 or Season 2 episode, but the characterisation and character relationships have come on such a long way since so it was a bit disconcerting seeing a finding its feet-like feel so late on in the show's run.
One can tell at times that more than one writer was involved too, it is occasionally a little disjointed. The ending seemed on the rushed side, although admittedly heart-warming.
However, despite how all of that sounds "PPOV (Pony Point of View)" is a long way from a bad episode. The opposite. The animation is rich in colour and is fluid and beautifully detailed. The music fits beautifully as one expects. The voice acting is great as usual from all involved, Tara Strong, Tabitha St Germain, Andrea Libman and Ashleigh Ball all sounded as if they were having fun. The writing is not perfect, but to me it wasn't bland, flowed well, had wit and mostly just about stopped being too outrageous. Some very funny lines. But the comedy isn't just verbal, some of it visual such as some great little reactions from Spike.
Generally a good job is done with the structure and there was the sense that fun was had doing the episode. Hearing all the different viewpoints was hugely entertaining and really had me interested in knowing what really happened, with interesting use of flashbacks. Ones that are wonderfully wacky and don't bog down the momentum. Really liked Twilight's role here in firm yet sympathetic mode and her methods of getting to the truth, she was very good at being somebody that tried to fix broken relationships so she was the perfect character for the role. Rarity, Pinkie Pie and Applejack are all amusing and their flaws are not too exaggerated (only coming close, but thankfully not quite, with Applejack). The moral is familiar but it is always worth addressing and very true to life, do wish that it was introduced a little sooner than it was as it did feel a little too squeezed in in the nick of time.
Concluding, didn't blow me away but interesting and enjoyable. 7/10.
"PPOV (Pony Point of View)" was one of those episodes that didn't do much for me on first watch, finding some of the characterisation too over-the-top and the animosity on the wrong side of strange, but fared quite a lot better on recent re-watch. It's not a perfect episode by any classic or a 'My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic' classic, but it does execute a very interesting but difficult structure a lot better than expected and somewhere around high middle in ranking Season 6's episodes.
Am going to get the negatives out of the way. For my tastes the episode get go a little too over the top on the intense dislike, with the disconnect between the three friends being agreed the equivalent of total strangers. This is something one would expect in a Season 1 or Season 2 episode, but the characterisation and character relationships have come on such a long way since so it was a bit disconcerting seeing a finding its feet-like feel so late on in the show's run.
One can tell at times that more than one writer was involved too, it is occasionally a little disjointed. The ending seemed on the rushed side, although admittedly heart-warming.
However, despite how all of that sounds "PPOV (Pony Point of View)" is a long way from a bad episode. The opposite. The animation is rich in colour and is fluid and beautifully detailed. The music fits beautifully as one expects. The voice acting is great as usual from all involved, Tara Strong, Tabitha St Germain, Andrea Libman and Ashleigh Ball all sounded as if they were having fun. The writing is not perfect, but to me it wasn't bland, flowed well, had wit and mostly just about stopped being too outrageous. Some very funny lines. But the comedy isn't just verbal, some of it visual such as some great little reactions from Spike.
Generally a good job is done with the structure and there was the sense that fun was had doing the episode. Hearing all the different viewpoints was hugely entertaining and really had me interested in knowing what really happened, with interesting use of flashbacks. Ones that are wonderfully wacky and don't bog down the momentum. Really liked Twilight's role here in firm yet sympathetic mode and her methods of getting to the truth, she was very good at being somebody that tried to fix broken relationships so she was the perfect character for the role. Rarity, Pinkie Pie and Applejack are all amusing and their flaws are not too exaggerated (only coming close, but thankfully not quite, with Applejack). The moral is familiar but it is always worth addressing and very true to life, do wish that it was introduced a little sooner than it was as it did feel a little too squeezed in in the nick of time.
Concluding, didn't blow me away but interesting and enjoyable. 7/10.
