Eh.. All three of these episodes have terrible implications; the whole religious stir, the racism debate, and now the one on whether the clones deserved death or not.
 
No thanks.

I wouldn’t say series finale, but if anything, Polski has been shown to make episodes that have some pretty… Interesting undertones once you look into them (be it intentional or not, I’d say the former). So I’d like to see is Polsky writting an episode with a villian, an evil one in the same league as Chrysalis and see what he can do with that.
 
But series finale? Na’h.

you serious? “Too many pinkies” was polsky’s first good episode

Those are indeed all very good episodes, if you ask me.

Feeling Pinkie Keen was an awesome episode, it’s hilarious how many ‘logical’ anti-religion assholes completely missed the blatant pro-science message (hint: Twilight is a terrible scientist, you can’t just dismiss observable phenomena like Pinkie Sense).
 
I can see why some people are uncomfortable about reducing genocide to a brief pie fight & then everyone gets along.

Let me just say, I’m part Cherokee, (and very proud of my “American Indian” or “Native American” heritage, and even attended “Pow-Wows” before) and let me just say, I was not bothered at all by “Over a Barrel.”  
(In fact, I actually thought it was cool the bison were like the “Indians.”)
 
I think both sides were shown to be antagnonistic with each other, and flawed. In the end they figured out a compromise for both parties, and got along at the end.  
I don’t think the lesson was trying to justify what happened to Native Americans, (having their farmlands taken away by the Government, and all) but trying to teach kids, there are other ways to solve your problems besides fighting.
 
Anyone who says that episode was “racist” is way to “Politically-Correct” for their own good, and probably think almost everything is “racist.”  
(This is why they barely ever show “Loony Tunes” on TV anymore… Because of overly P.C. people like that who think if Bugs Bunny so much as makes fun of a German guy it’s “racist.”)  
Honestly, I think P.C. (Political Correctness) just creates MORE racial tension then it solves.

how about fuck no

Over a Barrel fucking rules (favorite episode), Feeling Pinkie Keen was alright, and Too Many Pinkies was definitely the worst of the three.
 
If you really thought Over a Barrel was racist you’ve got some seriously sensitive nerves. Seems to me you guys bash these episodes based on stupid shit you infer in them.

Feeling Pinkie Keen was fine, Over A Barrel was meh and I quite enjoyed Too Many Pinkie Pies.
 
The debates after said episode aired not withstanding.

So basically you want an ending that inspires flame wars with it’s implications? I gotta admit, that would be a pretty cool way to go out, but I’m going with no.

@Griefon
 
Parent comment for extra context:
 
“I hope all this controversy doesn’t bother you too much, Lauren; there are a lot of ponies who are ready to flare up at the least provocation on certain subjects. Personally, as with others, I was a little put off by the “lesson” of the episode, which came off to me as “don’t bother trying to understand things”; and, if I was a parent, I’d be worried about my kids being discouraged from science or the like; but that’s me! Everypony’s going to take things in a different way, and any creator always runs the risk of ponies seeing something in their work they didn’t put there. Despite the moral, I was entertained and enjoying myself throughout the episode until then, and directly after (Celestia! Ha ha!), so it was still a good show from everypony on your team.
 
Commiserating pats-on-the-back in advance of whatever further complaints you receive.”
 
It was the miscommunication of the moral at the end of the episode. NOT the episode itself, that got people so riled up, as Ponylooker implies.

Amy Keating Rogers wrote the masterpieces. She’s gone now.

Goddess bless Matta, simmer down dude….

I actually found To many Pinkies a really bad episode. I enjoyed the other two, far more.

Ponylooker is bullshitting you all. All Lauren said about Pinkie Keen was that she wished she thought of a better way for the friendship report to be written so the moral wouldn’t get so easily misunderstood. She never apologised for the episode because it was only a vocal minority on /b/ and /co/ (which was basically the entire fanbase at the time) who were flipping their lids over it. And it was all over the mere assumption that the episode was either a swipe at either skeptics or religion.
 
Also, it didn’t “nearly drive off half the fandom”. It did cause a stir, but nothing that 4channers would consider noteworthy or even something to rage quit about.
 
And finally: “Over A Barrel… was racist as fuck”  
What. An episode where both opposing groups let bygones be bygones and become friends by the end of the episode is racist?
 
Ponylooker doesn’t know what the fuck he’s talking about. It’s like he’s nothing more than some endless hose of cynicism that doesn’t actually participate in the fandom because he enjoys the show, but because he wants to spend his days bitching about things.

Actually, the undertones of racism in “Over A Barrel”, while unpleasant, actually help build the world of Equestria for me. What did we learn from the episode? That yeah, ponies can and will commit the same wrongs as humans. This was the first episode that established Equestria was not the world (“Griffon” implied it a little) and ponies probably have a pretty inflated image of themselves. They’ve got this bright, shining country ruled by a pair of benevolent goddesses, and what has everywhere else got? Simple Buffalo and savage Dragons. It gave Equestria a dark side to it, made it feel more like an actual kingdom then just some poorly defined fantasy land.

Found it.
 
Lauren’s apology for the episode

I have to say that Pinkie Keen is like one of my least favorite eps. BP hit the nail on the head for why I dislike it. That Blind Faith/luck beats logical analysis. Bullshit, utter bullshit.

No, he’s not very good compared to the others. Too Many Pinkie Pies is the only one really up to standard with the rest of the show. The other two had some of the most broken morals I’ve seen in a kids show in a while. “Faith > Logic” and “Stealing is fine if you share some of it with the person you stole from”.

Am I the only one who loved all three episodes? I loved feeling pinkie keen, it is one of my favorites. Also love too many pinkies. Over the barrel was great too, although I dont really understand how that was racist

@Elric of Melnipony  
Agreed.

Lauren apologized for an episode? I’d like to read that if anybody has a link…

@Ponylooker
 
“Lauren Faust had to personally apologize for it”
 
For real?
 
And to OP, do you know one of the things I hate most? When people regard their personal opinions as a fact.

I don’t care about the Native American implications of Over The Barrel, I just thought the episode sucked on its own. It tries to present the settlers as the good guys, yet doesn’t give them as justification for stealing the land in the first place.
 
The other two are fine. I enjoyed them.

Feeling Pinkie Keen and Too many Pinkie Pies are definitely one of my favorite episodes so far. But over a Barrel isn’t.  
Still like M.A. Larson Episodes a lot too. She should write the finale. A three part episode would be cool for it.