My biggest beef with him in the Alicorn Hunt was precisely that. He could have realized that his story was started before Season Five even started and he could completely ignore the cutie marks for that story.
There was absolutely NO reason for him to throw in a take-that chapter that completely derailed his story's plot. I can accept he didn't like the CMC's Cutie Marks. No skin off my nose. But shoddy writing just to step up on his soapbox in an otherwise fine story was very irritating.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll
There was absolutely NO reason for him to throw in a take-that chapter that completely derailed his story's plot. I can accept he didn't like the CMC's Cutie Marks. No skin off my nose. But shoddy writing just to step up on his soapbox in an otherwise fine story was very irritating.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll