First of all, I forgot last week that I don't need to summarize these episodes before I state my thoughts since anyone can watch them on YouTube, so I won't bother wasting my time on that going forward. Anyway, I found this episode just got more and more ridiculous as it progressed. The carnival theme seemed okay at first. Misty being unfamiliar with it was understandable, but her unprepared status being spontaneously resolved by magic was a little absurd. Pipp's costume being too oversized and Misty and Izzy solving the problem with a little unicycling ingenuity was actually not that bad in my view. Then just when I think the episode will end on a standard high as yet another mediocre episode, there's suddenly some random tradition that only Izzy among the main ponies remembers about being pelted by fruit, which of course ruins everything for Pipp once again. The final solution? The main ponies calling out their special talents to magically resolve everything. I now feel like G5 is falling into the same deux ex machina trap that G4 had with their Elements of Harmony (albeit without the more blatant necessity of any physical objects), and now that we've seen it being applied strongly in both of the first two episodes, I honestly do not like it. Overall, it's not looking like a good start to the new season, in my opinion.