Dark Qiviut
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- Best: The Best Night Ever. A solid, satisfying conclusion to still the series's best arc with a lot of excellent satire. Years later, pacing remains among the cream of the crop.
- Worst: Bridle Gossip. Show, don't tell, especially when dealing with racism. Don’t make likeable characters designed to be role models to children so unpleasant. Don’t take a complex subject of racism, dwindle it down to “they scare me,” and cheapen the scars from thowe affected.
Both of these were written by Amy Keating Rogers & both had totally different tones.
"Best" made you happy because of a season's worth of build-up,
while "Worst" probably confused a lot of people because we were only nine episodes into the first season &
they were painting these brand new "role models" in an extremely negative light.
In my opinion, I think they should have moved "Bridle Gossip"'s lesson to season 2 or just scrapped the idea altogether.
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Bridle Gossip was awkward due to the inherently underwritten setup, which over-caricatured the M6 whilst simultaneously painting Zecora as suspicious in a way that semi-validated their overblown reactions, thus creating a weird dichotomy which gives the episode a bizarre undercurrent - essentially, it's an oversimplification of an issue resembling far thornier and more horrifying real-life situations, and I think that may explain the episode's awkwardness (particularly as the episode attempts to heighten the stakes as if the writers were aware of this issue). That being said, many of the episode's gags are hilarious (Twilight's acerbic 'catchy' remark to Pinkie's song and Flutterguy's deadpan expression whilst singing "Evil Enchantress" kill me every time), which absolves a little of the episode's flawed atmosphere for me.
