I see where you're coming from Pike. I actually try to look at it more positively. I think TS makes a horrible argument early on when comparing magic to Pinkie Sense by saying that she, TS, can control it and so that makes it different. It doesn't. Not all things with natural causes re controllable.

I also would agree that just because we can't explain something currently doesn't mean it's not a real thing and that it won't at some point be explainable. Sadly, I feel like the episode pushes a little further than that into the "just believe" category.

I'd love to give it all a pass though. I don't tend to get upset about things of this sort in fictional worlds. Like in The Elder Scrolls for example, there is evidence for the deities and such so I'm not going to be bothered by religion and faith based things in those games (because it's not really faith).

I'm also willing to give the idea of Pinkie Sense a pass because that seems totally reasonable in Equestria. What I don't like is that the episode is trying to teach a lesson and that lesson doesn't seem to be a good one. It's the same lesson that makes people into anti-vaxxers or causes people to use homeopathy or accupuncture instead of real treatments that could actually save their lives.

I guess I should try to think of it from the angle that TS is blatantly ignoring evidence that Pinkie Sense is real. That's a pretty unscientific stance she is taking and even if she can't explain the process and the cause, she's being silly to say it's not a real thing after so much evidence.


EDIT: OMG that Fluttershy looks amazing. I'm tending to find that they often get either the eyes or hair wrong, but that one looks great and in Rarity's dress no less.