http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTsES7PYMK4

I'm waiting until saturday too :P Sorry all

Easily one of my least enjoyable episodes this season. You can tell too many scenes were missing and didn't make the cut for the 22 minute long episode, resulting in -imo- a shallow episode. Half the characters felt like emotionless robots, especially spit fire who I liked before this episode I never thought I'd witness a mlp episode that was so out of depth.

Then again, I'm grumpy today, and I always hate everything when I'm grumpy.

-.- Typical, the leak was taken down by the time I get to it.

Some guys over on reddit figured that would happen. Here's a link on youtube. Some guy also put up a download link of that version in case it's taken down on Youtube. Keep in mind that it's not in HD because it was leaked... so if you want hi def, you'll have to wait.

it's a simply animated kids show with cellshading and simple (but well done) animations...who cares about Standard or High definition? 

I do prefer to watch MLP in HD but I'm not fussed about waiting for it, thankfully the animation is good enough that it doesn't make a huge difference ^^

Didn't feel as well thought through as the previous episodes in S3 but I still quite enjoyed it. Like you guys said, lots of clichés that came across because the episode felt incomplete but the overall idea was good. Kind of a shame they mixed Spitfire's character up so extremely though, she just felt unnecessarily military-esque compared with before.

Some people won't watch episodes unless they are in hi def. I personally don't care as long as it doesn't look atrocious, though I admit that I do prefer hi def as I can notice a large difference after having watched so much of it in recent years.

How would people rank the episodes thus far? (Whether you've seen E7 or not)

Myself:

1. Magic Duel
2. Sleepless in Ponyville
3. One Bad Apple
4. Too Many Pinkie Pies
(5. S3E7)
6. Crystal Ponies

but even 6 is still better than about 8 episodes from S2. Overall S3>S1>S2 for me.