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I don't think one of the new writers for season 4 Scott Sonneborn has gotten some unfair flack due to the episode Somepony to Watch Over Me, because as I mentioned before, I felt that the criticism towards him was justified in my opinion. I would say that he's actually more suited for writing comedic episodes (like he did with Beavis and Butthead), instead of episodes that are meant to have a light-hearted message.

Maybe. But I just didn’t like how some were thinking he’s like the new Merriwether Williams. Regardless of how the episode was, it was not on Mare-Do-Well levels of bad that has forever incriminated Merriwether Williams’ work for FiM (Though at least Merriwether has Wonderbolt Academy & Bats! to her favor. However even those two don’t really outweigh Mare-Do-Well, Putting Your Hoof Down, Dragon Quest, and Spike at your Service). Even if AJ was out of character (Which whole the overprotectiveness may have been exaggerated. We have seen AJ being a bit overprotective and in the wrong for being so before. Ex: Princess Twilight Sparkle, Part 2), the CMC were excellently written. And I’d take that over everyone of the Main 6 being out of character in Mare-Do-Well.

Scott just seems to emulate something from other writers. In Somepony Watching Over Me, it’s Season 1 Dave Polsky (Cause Season 4 Dave Polsky has been at least the 2nd best writer of the Season). With good comedy, but a rather muffled-up moral. Similar to Feeling Pinkie Keen and/or Over a Barrel

In Trade Ya it was like Josh Haber’s work. Where the episode wasn’t really amazing but it wasn’t really terrible either. Trade Ya was as ok an episode can be in FiM. Similar to Castle-Mania.