Hai everypony~!

I'm guessing if you clicked on this you've already seen this episode. So, picking up on my tradition from last year, I am now going to ramble and rant about how awesome this episode is without recognizing any of its flaws!

(For the record, I am afflicted with a peculiar and highly pleasant condition wherein I cannot discern any flaws in an MLP:FiM episode unless they are pointed out to me by someone else, and I am happy that this has not yet changed. )

So, what was SO AWESOME about this episode? :3

1) HOLY SHUCKING FIT DARING DO IS REAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

in the Equestrian universe, that is.

I honestly do not think there is any way I could break down the gravity of how cool this is. It's like if you went to find J.K. Rowling's house and found Hogwarts instead (and yes, dat pun with A.K. Yearling....x3 was pretty silly). I think this episode alone could produce an explosion of fanfic material due to new worldbuilding potential moreso even than Equestria Girls. I mean, ohmygosh, Daring Do is a real character now! And so are Ahuizotl and all of the predators! And his minion ponies! And that one pony who looked like Belloq!

I am struggling to keep this intellectually understandable without slipping into total fanboy-squee-jibberish. /)o3o(\

Oh yeah, and the episode was really good too.

2) The difficult-to-predict structure of the episode.

Up until about 2/3 of the way through the episode, I still wasn't sure if Daring Do was real. I still thought they were going to go the "it's not as cool in real life and your heroes aren't who they think they are" route, which would have been understandable and they could have pulled off well, but I wouldn't have liked it. But luckily, they made Daring Do REAL!!! They totally fooled me. Honestly, by playing it straight, they set the episode up so I expected a subversion that never came. There are very few feelings better than one's doubt being utterly squashed beneath the weight of faith and reality alike.

3) Dat feelsy scene in the middle.

After seeing S4E2, when I realized they were going for a feelzy scene when Dashie let Do get caught, I thought it would be handled a lil bit clumsily. However...it wasn't. At least I don't think it was. I could actually tell how huge of a deal this was to Dashie, and Twilight's ~flowery~ pep speech was totally 1) necessary due to the circumstances and 2) inspirational in its own right.

...I think that's all I wanted to say.

Maybe.

I don't know.

Ponies. :3