Text Review Roundup: "Uprooted"

Here we go again with a look at what the text-based reviewers thought of the latest My Little Pony episode. As ever, I'd be interested to hear from anyone I haven't included who writes episode reviews. To be included in TRR, you'll need to have your reviews up by the Wednesday evening after each episode at the latest – which is why Mega Sean 45 isn't featured this week – and (naturally) to do them in writing, not in video format.

"Uprooted" was not as well received as the S9 premiere, and opinion was very divided among the text-based reviewers. We had everything from very positive to very negative, although for most people the episode ended up somewhere in between. My own assessment proved to be roughly in the middle of opinion overall.

Cuddlepug – rather negative (graded C+; "[the Young Six] fight and bicker for no real reason other than to fill the 22 minutes the episode requires. Only Yona, however, has  any sense")

Dark Qiviut – broadly positive ("it gets clumsy at points [but] a really good episode")

DrakeyC – very negative ("This episode is boring and annoying and serves no point but to set up the Treehouse of Friendship, both to sell its incoming playsets and for possible future plot developments that will fall flat on their faces.")

JDPrime22 – fairly positive (rated 8/10; "a pretty solid episode [but] Sandbar was an idiot")

Lightening McQueen – very positive ("a really nice continuation of [the S9 premiere]")

Louder Yay – mixed (rated 3/5 "just"; "a Young Six rehash of "Castle Sweet Castle" [...] moderately engaging [but] all felt a little empty and forgettable")

Mike Cartoon Pony – negative ("one of the show's most bland, neutral, nothings of an episode [... it's] boring, it's pointless even if it's setting up stuff for later, and the few fun or amusing moments it has don't linger in the mind at all")

MLEEP Reviews – positive (rated 8/10; "despite being a recycled rehash of Season 5's "Castle Sweet Castle" all over again with the same concepts and ideas, 'Uprooted' still made for a pretty great episode that was full of heart and emotion")

Present Perfect – negative ("The song was outrageously mediocre, and this episode was crap.")

The Railfan Brony – very positive (rated Excellent; "this was a really good episode and it fit the Young Six perfectly [although] the lack of originality held it back from being truly amazing")

TheDragonWarlock – mildly positive (rated 7/10; "While I feel this is a good episode, it had too many moments of the characters being moronic and it's basically a retread of Castle Sweet Castle.")