Then they follow it up with this... thing... and it seems that the idea is being overplayed (already happened in Sisterhooves Social; same FREAKIN' characters, BTW). I got bored after the first five minutes and didn't finish it for three days. THREE DAYS.

In Sisterhooves Social, Sweetie Belle and her family show up to Rarity's home, invite themselves in and immediately make a mess of things. Sweetie Belle, out of good will, proceeds to mess with a lot of Rarity's things uninvited. While the frustration of Sweetie Belle always ruining Rarity's things was understandable, Rarity did lash out a bit too much and Sweetie's hurt was understandable, especially since she just wanted to help.

In the end, Rarity goes to hell and back to make it up for her sister, including posing as Applejack, completely immersing herself in mud, running the race, and going against everything she's about just to make it up to her sister, having realized her wrong and putting herself aside for her own sister.

However, the wrong is executed in a much more darker and selfish way in "For Whom the Sweetie Belle Toils." Rarity tries to help her sister by making her the best outfits she can for her play, despite having a career making-or-breaking client who's order she was really lagging behind on. She not only took the time she didn't have to work on her sister's clothing, but she also put 110% of her work in there, and it required assistance that she likely didn't want to ask for just so she'd be able to finish Sapphire Shore's ensemble.

Sweetie Belle's play was meh at best, apparently, but the outfits Rarity helped her with were met with universal praise and stole the show, so to speak. This frustrated Sweetie Belle who got really angry and took it ALL out on her undeserving sister.

What happened next? She sneaks into Rarity's room and sabotages the outfit for Sapphire Shores. It went further than just a contest - she was sabotaging Rarity's lifeblood, her passion - all out of jealousy and spite because the outfits shehad Rarity help her with stole the show.

There's a huge difference right there - more was at risk. Rarity's whole career was at risk, and Sweetie Belle essentially just wanted to run in a race with her sister.

Another difference that I mentioned much earlier was that Sweetie Belle also did things wrong in Sisterhooves Social, as opposed to Toils, where Rarity didn't deserve any of it. Sweetie deserved some of what she got, but definitely not all of it. Rarity didn't deserve a damn thing, let alone the potential loss of her lifelong passion at the hands of a greedy younger sibling.

Another difference is that Rarity realized her mistake. Sweetie Belle was content with letting Rarity's life crumble around her and didn't realize anything - and likely wouldn't have - until Luna intervened. Rarity was able to figure out by herself and correct the mistake - but what if Sweetie Belle didn't figure out on her own? Rarity's life would be ruined.Sweetie Belle showed no signs of remorse until Luna showed up.

So it was executed in a much different way, one that was much darker.

Furthermore, there was a huge ordeal at the end where they ran out and stole the headdress to fix it, this prompted running away from Rarity to fix the mistake, as opposed to Sisterhooves Social, where they had to work together. This time, to mend the mistake, they had to go up against each other, and that created a whole different feeling of urgency and anxiety.

The differences stop past the sibling bickering between Rarebear and Sweetie Belle. Overall, Toils was handled in a much darker way that emphasized pulling the viewer in by high risks and incredibly dark themes for this show, whilst Sisterhooves was much lighter and just focused on the sibling bickering in general.

Toils was much more of a personal battle of overcoming envy and selfishness on Sweetie Belle's part, and realizng how much it could hurt others, as opposed to Sisterhooves which was essentially Rarity needing to learn to be more appreciative and patient with her younger siblings.

Similar, yet very different, even to the untrained eye.

But the execution is horrible.

Personally, I found the execution in Toils amazing. It created a real dark atmosphere that had me very worried for Rares and made think about about what a little bitch Sweets was being - Sisterhooves execution was much weaker in creating the emotions and feels because it showed Sweetie Belle doing wrong herself and there was much less at stake, as well as focusing more on Sweetie Belle when the development was meant for both her and Rarity, as opposed to Toils, where there was little development needed for Rarity.

If you feel the execution was bad, you gotta give it some evidence - because the execution in that episode was pretty great, honestly, and you can see why I feel that way by looking above.

 

Because OF the reference. It goes on for way too long and holds little substance towards the plot. I could have liked the dream sequence, but we got too much exposition and filler for me to decide what I think of the scene.

Without that dream sequence, Sweetie Belle never would've seen what she did wrong, would've ruined Rarity's life, and never would've headed to Canterlot to mend her mistake, meaning that the rest of the episode wouldn't have happened and the dream sequence would've took it's place, meaning that cute little Sweetie Belle totally ruined her sister in the eyes of the public and the eyes of herself, and she'd be the only one to blame, making her, for all intents and purposes, a villain.

That dream sequence was not only completely necessary to the episode itself, but it was crucial to the series from that point forward, meaning that the criticism of it being "exposition" is completely false and nullified.

I only skimmed through your review on The Best Night ever, and I don't feel like typing out a long wall to defend it - ultimately, though, as a reviewer, I think you have a lot of things you need to work on. There's a lot you need to work on - I'll be glad to help you if you ever want it Until then, peace!