I'm going to try tables. Stand back:
(Also, guys, I think M. A. Larson is Mitch Larson. According to IMDb, he's wrote for one episode of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, a few episodes of Sym-Bionic Titan, Kick Buttowski, and My Gym Partner's a Monkey.)
Writer (in order of episode airing)
Episodes Written (according to Wikipedia)
My Rank ("1" being Most Favorite writer)
Lauren Faust |
Mare in the Moon, Elements of Harmony, The Ticket Master (co-writer) |
7 |
Amy Keating Rogers |
The Ticket Master (co-writer), Applebuck Season, Bridle Gossip, Fall Weather Friends, A Dog and Pony Show, Best Night Ever |
1 |
Cindy Morrow |
Griffon the Brush-Off, Winter Wrap-Up, The Show Stoppers, Owl's Well that Ends Well, Sisterhooves Social |
5 |
Chris Savino |
The Stare Master |
8 |
Meghan McCarthy |
Dragonshy, Call of the Cutie, Green Isn't Your Color, Party of One, Lesson Zero |
3 |
Charlotte Fullerton |
Look Before You Sleep, Suited for Success, A Bird in the Hoof |
6 |
(That Dude) M. A. Larson |
Swarm of the Century, Sonic Rainboom, Cutie Mark Chronicles, Return of Harmony Parts 1 and 2, Luna Eclipsed |
4 |
(My Dude) Dave Polsky |
Feeling Pinkie Keen, Over a Barrel |
2 |
I think Gigatoast did a great job in explaining who the writers are outside of FiM, so I won't have to. I'd talk about the actual writing as opposed to what's my favorite episode, but this post will be massive as it is.
- Chris Savino only wrote for one episode, and it's not one of my favorites.
- I'd hate to put anything indicating less than awesome for Lauren Faust, but I didn't like the pilot as much as other episodes.
- I liked all of Charlotte Fullerton's episodes, but they are only three episodes that I only "liked."
- Cindy Morrow is certainly hit and miss for me. I liked Griffon the Brush-Off and Owl's Well that Ends Well, but parts of Winter Wrap-Up and The Show Stoppers I can't watch even now. Sisterhooves Social was nice, but it's too soon for me to assess it.
- Mitch Larson should write for any potential Pony movie. I wasn't really thrilled about Luna Eclipsed or Sonic Rainboom though, but they are good episodes, I think.
- Meghan McCarthy wrote three episodes I really liked including Party of One, which was an episode I watched about 4 times a week over the summer, and Lesson Zero was hilarious. But Green is Not Your Color isn't one I like much. More hit, with less miss, but still hit or miss with me.
- My first and third/fourth favorite episodes. Shut up.
- Amy Keating Rogers. The Ticket Master is one of my favorite episodes, I really like all of her other episodes. Solid all around writing with different plots, I guess. If Dave Polsky had written one or two more episode that I liked as much as Feeling Pinkie Keen and Over a Barrel, he'd be here instead. Come at me, bro.
CitationNeeded the Ambassador wrote:
This comic is entitled “Citation Needed”. I would like to go out the way and point out this now my official comic (also, MLP Wikia? The toy names are never correct.).
Equestria Daily as a digital magazine? Don’t want. The current blog format is perfect. If they want to just add onto it, fine, but I don’t want them foregoing the awesome blog format.
Saw that comic and immediately thought of you. In name only though. I'm not sure if you'd swing the banhammer so easily. Unless you were bored.
After looking at the potential magazine format, I think it'll be redundant. It seems as if it'll be a monthly round-up instead of the Nightly Round-Up which introduces information that didn't merit it's own post during the day. Too much effort for information that is easily accessible via EqD search functions.
Also, dis is sum bullsh!t.
Not that I disagree with the analysis, but the methods are not scientific. Sociology is a science. It studies a lot of factors that are not observable, thus making it a soft/social science, but it has a basis in theory and the scientific method. This guy says little about his theoretical grounding for his analysis. I can't figure out what is the specific mechanism that he's using to explain the phenomenon.
@Notsocoolguy
If the description wasn't a page back, I wouldn't mind. Since it is (and since part of the discussion is on this page, I'll ask that you just read the past page or so.
@burning_phoneix
I'd suggest (again my own will) to try running the game on this thread first. The problem with that is CitationNeeded and I will have to deal with that for the length of the game
I feel as if it may get locked as a JFF (or any) thread or start a flamewar that will ruin the game.
Supposedly, supermonday started a forum elsewhere. If that's the case, the game could be taken there.
EDIT: for comprehension, and to say, "Man, that felt good. Anyone got a cigarette?"