Good morning everypony, and welcome back to another edition of "Batbrony Reviews." Well, honestly, should have a very short review for you all this morning, mostly because I just don't have a lot to say at all about this episode. It wasn't bad or anything, just... OK, in my opinion, and not a particularly memorable episode. Without further ado, let's jump into "What About Discord."

So the best thing I can say about this episode is that it has a really solid message, and I like that aspect of it a lot. The message is essentially that in friendships, you shouldn't worry or get jealous if you don't share every memory ever made with all of your friends, and that's a particularly solid message for today's world, where it's easier to have many, many friends than ever before given how easy it is to stay in touch with people through online social media. You can't be with all of your friends ALL the time, it's simply not possible, so they're going to have some fun times without you, and vice versa. Accepting that fact can not only make your life less stressful, but also help you become a better friend for it. Friends who try to do too much often risk wearing themselves down and possibly risking friendships even by simply trying to do too much and be there for their friends too much, and neither is something that anyone should want. So on the whole, yeah, I really liked this message about avoiding jealousy in friendships and accepting that you can't make every single memory with all your friends. It's a nice message about staying down-to-earth and not trying to do too much of a good thing.

Where this episode kinda lost me, though, was in its execution. Again, it wasn't a bad episode, but it wasn't a particularly memorable episode, and that's particularly odd for one starring Discord. It was strangely low-key in its execution, and most of the humor was very, very awkward, both of which are unusual for any Discord episode. Don't get me wrong, he was entertaining (the Bob Ross references were particularly funny), and his trolling Twilight was pretty funny, but it just didn't ever really feel like a Discord episode overall. Twilight almost lost it, but didn't quite, we never really got a good sense of what their weekend with Discord was like, there was a random subplot about Twilight thinking they're under a spell from Discord, none of it was just memorable in the slightest. And that feels kinda weird and wrong for an episode starring our favorite draconequus. At one point I even thought that Twilight's suspicions about her friends being enchanted might be correct just because even their behavior seemed a tad forced at times. But nope, they were just acting strangely jovial with Discord. Honestly, I would've far preferred if he was the star of the episode and we got to see just what he got up to with the girls on that weekend. I feel like that would've made for a more straightforward episode, and maybe one which worked better for Discord.

As it is, this episode just kind of exists. It wasn't awful or anything, but it wasn't amazing either, and certainly not very memorable. Twilight was fine, the rest of the girls were fine, Spike was fine, Discord was fine, Zecora was fine. Everyone and everything was just fine, and that's neither particularly good or bad. But hey, not every episode of MLP can be a home run, and this is hardly the first time that's been the case. Nothing else really to say about this one other than it was fine, so until next week everypony, this is Batbrony signing off. I'm off! *cue dramatic exit*