terrible writing?
 
in my mlp / idw comics?
 
it’s more common than you think.

Oh my God, IDW pulled a Destiny.  
Examples: “I don’t even have time to explain why I don’t have time to explain.”  
or  
“Not even Oryx can control an Ogre… Unless it is Taken.”

@OneOverTwo
 
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Description: Believe. Believe. Believe. Believe. Believe. Believe. Believe. Believe. Believe. Believe. Believe. Believe. Believe. Believe. Believe. Believe. Believe. Believe. Believe. Believe. Believe. Believe. Believe. Believe.
 
Twilight drops dead
 
Applejack: … Okay… Soo…. which one of y’all motherbuckers didn’t believe hard enough?
 
Spike: What’s that? Sorry, I wasn’t paying attention; what were we doing?
 
Rarity: Spike, you just made Twilight lose a spell game.
 
Spike: NoIdidnt.
 
Rarity: Yes you did!
 
Spike: Well, you made me lose all the joy in my life… So we’re even.

Twilight, you must remember one thing:  

 
“BELIEVE IN ME WHO BELIEVES IN YOU WHO BELIEVES IN THE ONE PIECE!”

@redweasel  
But without the Elements of harmony, the others shouldn’t have any super powers, just like in return of harmony.

the elements of harmony being the elements of harmony
 
this is the most sensible part of this particular storyline yet.

@Background Pony #94E4  
It’s an exact quote, you know. Ineffective censorship included.  
Now who looks like they don’t know things?

@Background Pony #94E4  
No, I’m pretty sure he used the right word for this scenario.

@PonyPon  
Yep. Compared to Friendship Games, this comic is enormously lazy.

@Background Pony #695B  
Wasn’t there a device used to facilitate that?

It’s fuck, not frig. Also, changing one letter to an asterix doesn’t actually censor anything. Makes you sound like an inbred retard.

I don’t a think a day has gone by recently where my observation of these comics being one step above the Mega Man Zero manga hasn’t seemed more and more accurate… That’s kind of depressing, really. At least they are better than the game.

Still think these writers give a rip?

shining armor cuddling spike as spike extends a pseudopod out to feast on the energy of friendship
 
he was never a dragon but something else  
a terrestrial siphonophore that had evolved to give the impression of intelligence  
nobody knew that the fossilized dragon egg had been infested  
nobody knows that shining has been infested now, either
 
this is the kind of nightmare that fuels your nightmares, but this isn’t a nightmare – this is real, and this is the end

Have a problem? Just believe, your toast not buttered? Just believe! Your shoe not tied? Just believe! Out of toilet paper? Just believe!

That’s the power of friendship. Sometimes, it’s either a good deus ex machina or a bad one.

@soundtea  
I think what matters in this event is that Twilight getting the ‘Power of Friendship’ boost wasn’t even relevant. After all, she just ended up making the situation worse.

Oh that’s so cheesy it’s painful.

This part was really dumb.

@soundtea  
No context needed, I understand completely that this is kind of sudden. Personally I tend to give the writers a little slack, since I imagine working with a set amount of comic pages forces the story at times, but even so they probably could have done with a bit more explanation.
 
I suppose I could have phrased my statement better too. I tend to think that once you establish that sort of thing is something that can be done, you don’t need to make as big a production out of it every time it happens (such as here). But again, that’s my opinion only.

@Background Pony #695B  
That had a lot more buildup and reason to it.
 
This is just “We belive in you!” and she then frees them just like that with no buildup whatsoever. Learn some context.

Twilight faints.
 
“Alright, which one of y’all fspoilers didn’t believe hard enough?”

Oh well. It’s not like there’s never been a “draw on your friends’ magical energy for power” moment in MLP before…
 
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