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My list. In green the episodes I enjoy the most, in orange the meh section with average episodes for which I didn't care very much but were still enjoyable, in red the ones I don't plan on rewatching any time soon 1. Fame and Misfortune : Just a crazy crazy ride. Lot of humor, very meta, a really good and catchy song (reaffirming the flaws of the characters and why we love them) and all of this packed with a great moral about criticism and how to react to it which is a lesson I can relate to completly. A really strong episode what I can watch again and again without it becoming stale. Best episode of the season for me. 2. Discordant Harmony : Really good episode solidifiying the friendship between Flutter and Discord. The conflict was good. The humor too. And the moral was a great one. I don't really what else to say... It was just a very good episode all in all. It was sweet to see how far Discord could go to "please" Fluttershy and to don't lose her... and to see how far Fluttershy can go to stop Discord from fading away. 3. Shadow Play - Part 2 : Pros : Good use of the M6 and Starlight, good and believable conflict, expansion of the lore which was nice. Cons : Some pillars were under used, the Pony of Shadow was a lackluster vilain which posed no real threat and with a goald I didn't even understand that well... I didn't understand what he wanted to do, nor how he wanted to do it. But all in all it was a good finale even if there wasn't enough time to really tell the story proprely. 4. A royal problem : It was sweet to see the continuation of the sisterly relationship between Luna and Celestia after Slice of Life. A good episode showcasing Celestia's and Luna's characters, the upsides and the downsides of their missions and dwelled a bit more on both sisters... which was long overdue for Celestia. It was nice to see that both of them are real ponies even if they are princesses of Equestria and centuries old. Starlight and Twillight were on point as well. 5. The perfect pear : Some parts were real great (Big Mac demanding more stories about his father for example). And I really liked the subtlety of the evocation of the death of the Apple's parents. The fact that it used Ms. Cake and Mayor Mare as a part of the story were also great points and it felt very organic and natural. The song was also cool. But the story felt a bit cliché all in all and some little things were really a bit too much for me : the fact that Pearl Butter was good at figuring people talents was... really stupid and just here to create some sort of connection with Apple Bloom but it would have been better without. The story of Burn Oak was also a bit weak. And the ending even if nice was a bit weird... since it implies that Granny Smith or anyone else for that matter didn't ever saw that tree in the middle of their own farm (AJ don't ever recolt the apples from the nearby trees ?). 6. It isn't the mane thing about you : The beginning of the story was very misleading for me. With the classic and cliché misunderstanding which started the whole plot (Oops, I mistake your bottle for mine) I was expecting a really bad episode. In fact it was pretty decent. A bit slow sometimes but it was a good showcase of Rarity as a character and had a great moral. A really solid episode this season. 7. Marks and Recreation : Cool premise. A bit slow at time but pretty solid. Good resolution. Good song. I think Marks and Recreation was a better CMC episode than The Fault in our Cutie Mark and Rumble was an interresting client. Humor was great and the story was relatable for anyone struggling to find that they want to do in the world... and who are afraid to be stuck doing one thing all of their life without the possibility to do anything on the side. 8. Celestial Advice : It was an interresting look on Celestia as a character. Discord was a bit too much in this one but the conflict was interresting, the resolution was pretty good with Twillight willing to let got of Starlight but Starlight deciding to stay a bit more and all in all it was a pretty good follow-up to the season finale of the former season and a good introduction to the new season. 9. Uncommon bond : Good moral. Trixie and Maud were as good as ever. Sunburst finally have a more proeminent role after The Crystalling. In short it was a good episode. Nothing really to say about it in fact. It was just cool. 10. All bottled up : The M6 story was cool, a good musical number with a good jab to the show premise. The part with Starlight and Trixie offered a good moral, and a good dynamic between the two friends. Plus it was a relatable episode... Friends aren't flawless people who only do things you will like. Friends are people who you think are worth putting up with their shit because the upsides outweight the downsides. And it's cool if you say to your friends what what are doing is dumb, because they are your friends and will listen and try to act a bit differently in order to be a bit less sufferable... at least for some time. The only real flaw I have with this episode and Trixie being able to make the map disappeared. It was... it was very strange and dumb. 11. Shadow Play - Part 1 : Not the most exciting first part of a two parter we got. It was more or less filled with the M6 going to retrieve the items of the Pillars. Some of these missions were pretty good (Fluttershy and Rainbow/Spike were the best) but Rarity's mission was too fast and anticlimatic, Pinkie's mission was really too fast to even care about and AJ's story was... yeah... weird (still cool to see again the archeology pony we saw the CMC help in an earlier episode). It was mostly a setup for the second part but didn't really offer anything at all in itself... The retrieve missions could have been an episode each through out a season... here it was a bit wasted. 12. A Flurry of emotion : A story a bit on the repetitive side (Twillight go somewhere, Flurry do something, Twillight apologize again and again) but the plot about Cadance and Shining was funny. The moral... at least a bit relatable if not that good and Spike and Pikie were great in it. Flury was also a great character, I especially liked the scene with the Cake twins with Flurry triying to solve the problem on her own but failing. 13. A Health of Information : All the characters were good in this story. But the resolution was anticlimatic and the lesson (which was really good) was lost a bit during the episode since Fluttershy didn't take a break because she wanted to but because she was forced to do so... because she was sick. The legend was cool, second best behind Mistmane. The begining of the story was dumb nonetheless and it's maybe the weakest point of this story : Zecora reason to become sick was contrived... Fluttershy could have just fly rather than letting Zecora struggle to take the plant for no reason other than to move the plot forward. 14. Not asking for troubles : Weak premise. The story felt just very long and very repetitve during the middle of it. Pinkie's antics saved the episode for being utterly boring at least especially the scenes in the ballon which were the best part of it. Nothing really special. The lesson was also a bit... strange. I didn't really understand what they were going for with that. 15. Secret and Pies : The premise of this episode was clearly not enough to fill an entire episode of the show. It felt weak and tiresome to sit during this one. The resolution was... very weird. Didn't really know what they were going for with that (it would have clearly been better if Rainbow's would have just decide to eat one of Pinkie's pie to make her happy... and Pinkie stopping her to do so because of her new knowledge of Rainbow disliking pies in general...). Some of the humor was funny and Pinkie's antics were good at least so I put this episode a bit higher than the other episodes on the list. 16. Triple Threat : Really basic premise and sometimes the story is a bit painful to watch unfold since I saw this kind of "misunderstanding" a lot of time in a lot of shows. The map calling Spike didn't really make sense at all in the context since it wasn't Spike which solved the conflict in the end but Ember and Thorax... so... the fuck map ? Still this episode get Ember and Thorax right, and their dynamic was pretty good. Plus all the Ember's gags were on point especially her mistaking Starlight and Twillight. 17. Once upon a zeppelin : Didn't understand the need of the return of Iron Will. This character is just obnoxious and in addition continually screaming which make him one of my least favorite character on the show. It was cool to see the Sparkle Familly interract with each others (especially love Twillight Velvet and a daring do persona which was a nice touch) and Spike was on point in the intro but at the same time the fanpony was just too much for me to handle and Shining's running gag about air sickness kill the episode for me. It was never that funny. Still cool to see the whole familly on a cruise. 18. To change a changeling : Boring episode. The only redeemable quality of this episode was Trixie and her banter with Starlight. Sometimes it was a bit too much, but it kept the story afloat since without her it would just have been boring. The fight at the end was pathetic and no effort watsoever was made to make it look good... a shame since it was the big climax, the backbone of all the narration since it was the point where Pharynx point of view was justified, and what the story was leading to since the beginning of the episode. In addition the humor was... really lackluster. 19. Rock Solid Friendship : The episode could have been great. But Pinkie Pie characterisation was thrown out the window in this one to make her as antagonistic as possible. She was straight up obnixious and it's saying something since I just love Pinkie Pie and even found her bereable in Filly Vanilli (which is saying something since a lot of people didn't like Pinkie's behaviour in this episode). Pinkie's obnoxiousness make this episode unwatchable for me even if some good ideas were thrown in there. 20. Parental Glideance : The story could have been great. Some of the humor worked. But the moral was bad. The episode didn't say enough about how Rainbow's parents behavior was wrong instead focusing most of the fault on Rainbow... which had her faults in all of this but not most of it... Plus Rainbow's parents were very obnoxioux during all the runtime of this episode. I didn't really find them endearing at all... just very cringy and not likeable at all. They almost killed someone with a firework and it wasn't really adressed at all. For me it was a worst episode than Newbie Dash so I don't really understand how so many people liked it and didn't like Newbie Dash which was less cringy and less on the nose than this trainwreck. 21. Daring Done? : Contrived as hell. An obvious vilain which make the reveal scene totaly dumb (no shit, it was Cabalerone ? Who would have guessed ? ... =_=) . The good concept of Daring Do doing bad stuff in order to do good deeds which was the interesting part of the episode was pushed to the side until a fast and weak resolution at the end because the writters needed to shoehorn the nonsensical moral about "hope" and "leap of faith" which didn't really have all that much to do with anything in the story. And to complete the picture of why this episode failed... Daring Done? is also the episode with the stupidest and badly written scenes in all the season : the kidnapping of Rainbow was laughable espiecally considering Pinkie and Daring were two feets away doing... I don't really know... walking ?..., the scene were Pinkie and Rainbow goes "Oh look ! We found Daring" in the hostel was incredibly dumb and was basicaly the writters saying "well the scene with the owner of the hostel is over... what to do next ?" and the rescue scene with the... steam thingy in the green goop is one of the dumbest thing I ever saw on the show... It don't even make sense : how is it a leap of faith ? Shouldn't Pinkie and Daring saw the thingy in the green goop ? Wouldn't they think about using them rather than just jumping blindly in toxic liquid without even considering the steam things to be useful ? And why don't we see these contraptions in the other scenes ? It's just plain stupide. At least the animation of the legend was... cool. 22. Campfire Tales : Boring episode. Scootaloo characterisation was just plain stupid and too over the top (she was way too scared and Apple Bloom and Sweetie not at all) and it was painful to watch her be reduced to this trope of the "scaredy cat" which don't even really make sense with what we know of Scootaloo and the events of Sleepless in Ponyville. The resolution was dumb and weak (let's jump in the water... wait, what ?). The legend were not that great : Rockhoof is the worst one with very little to offer, Flash Magnus is barely average... The only redeeming quality of this episode and why it is so high on this list is the story of Mistmane which is by far the best thing Campfire Tales has to offer. 23. Honest Apple : AJ was unbearable in this one. The concept was dumb (they tried to explain why Rarity would ask AJ to be a judge... but in the end I wasn't really convinced by her compeling arguments... plus aren't judges supposed to judge the dresses at the end of the fashion show ? Isn't it the point of competition ?). The humor fell flat. And even the best scene of this episode "Hard Rock Rarity' was poorly put together. It was just a WTF moment during five seconds and wasn't even that well animated. 24. Forever Filly : Two plots. Both equally boring. The moral was good I guess, but I start doing something else at the same time in the middle of this episode since it couldn't really hold my attention at all. All of the story seem really contrived. You can see how the story will end from miles away (the dog and Sweetie will be paralleled in the end, big surprise). And the ice cream shop scene still baffles me... I know the size of this ice cream is exaggeratedly small for comic value but... it's a bit too much and only make Rarity look like a total moron. I need a bit more than Rarity being cute in a disguise to liked an episode. 25. Fluttershy Leans In : Even more boring than Forever Filly. Yeah, it's possible. Nothing really happen during the runtime and could have been sum up in five minutes flat. A weak conflict. Weak antagonists. Forced storyline which didn't really make sense (why hire a specialist of cages, a pony who kow how to decorate homes and someone who build real buildings to build an animal sanctuary ? They are no experts at all in this area). In short, an episode I didn't care for. And it's no different today. 26. Hard to say anything : Don't even know why this episode exist. Not pleasant in the slightest, dumb and a bit on the uncanny side when you look at the situations with the eyes of an adult. One episode about romance was more than enough in My little pony... Plus Big Mac and Sugar Belle ? Really ? They didn't really have any chemistry in the episode which warranted me to root for this couple to win in the end.

Basically a lot of the Pinkie Pie stories lessons helped me to grow as a person :3 But in my defense five years ago I was childish, overt the top and not that mature. Now I'm still a child in the body of an adult, I still enjoy being random, having fun and making lot of new friends but I've also become a bit more mature in some area and especially emotionaly speaking. Party of one taught me to try to resist to my paranoid delusion whenever one of my friend don't answer to me instantly. I'm much more chill in this area thanks to this episode and don't go anymore on a rampage after merely one hour of radio silence. Too many Pinkie Pies even if the lesson was deemed simple by many hit really close to home for me since basically before this episode aired I had a really hard time making choices when it came to friendship. For example I wasn't afraid to stay up for three days straight in order to going out with all of my friends, packing my planning without an hour to breath or sleep... Going bowling with one group, then drinking all night with another before using my morning to walk in a park with another friends, then having lunch with someone else, then going to the theatres and so on... After this episode I became a bit more careful to manage my health and not going overboard like this too often... and too just choose my activies and the friends I want to spend time with rather than just cram everything without thinking about how bad the consequences would be for me. Pinkie Pride taught me to don't freak out too much when one of my friend declines one my invitation because he wants to spend time with someone else. Maud Pie to don't force friendship between two of my friends just because I want to hang around with both of them at the same time. Party Pooped to be a bit more confident with what I do for a living and to accept the compliments of my friends on my work as valuable and not as meaningless words just to please me. And I can go on and on...

Yeah the timeline doesn't really make any sense since the story and the lore is pretty much created and expanded as the show goes on. It was more or less consistent before Show Plays but with the revelation about how the elements came to be it's a bit more problematic to really understand in which order the Shadow Pony, Tirek and Discord were fought. And I guess we won't have an answer since, for example, Meadowbrook became an Earthpony between seasons with no real explication... So I don't think logic really account all that much in MLP

Good ending for this season. A shame I didn't really care much for any of the legends episode because I obviously would have been a little more excited to see all of them in these episodes. I like a lot of things in these episodes. But didn't like some things too. First, the treatment the legends were given weren't really equal. Starswirl and Flash Magnus for example were more in the spotlight during this episode than Meadowbrook. I get that with this many characters it would have been difficult but some of them were just above average backround characters in this two parter. Secondly, the "trials" the M6 did to recover the missing items were also quite inequal : I really like the part about Fluttershy getting the mask because it was a really perfect way to showcase what make Fluttershy a great pony, the Rarity one was... more of a mixed bag for me because it felt really... empty and a bit easy. But again there was just no time to focus a bit more on this part. Thirdly, the evil foe of this finale was... not that threatening. Like at all. He did nothing at all for the entire episodes. Yeah, he did some bad stuff in the past... I suppose (we didn't really se any of his wrongdoings...) but in the present he just appeared, tried to battle a bit with Twillight, flew and destroy a barrier spell. So yeah... as a vilain... it was just nothing at all. I didn't really understand what his plans were exactly, what he wanted, how he aimed to attain it or... anything really. Apart from these nitpicks it was a good episode. It showcased the M5 and their qualities, Starlight qualities, a good conflict between Starswirl and Twillight with both sides having sort of an understable view of the subject, a bit more lore fleshed out (even if... I don't really know if the chronology isn't a bit flimsy...), a good use of the map (I'm looking at you Triple Threat !) and a good showcase of Twillight in the last bit of the last episode were she act like a true princess of friendship by going inside the shadow to make things right

Just a reminder that in "Castle Sweet Castle" Fluttershy aknoweldge that her and Twillight are animals too. So basically consider themselves like animals, just like us humans do, but when they talks about "animals" they usually refer to the animals with less "intellect" than them juste like humans in our world say "animals" to talk about all the other animal species (even if Angel is clearly shown to have as much of a conscience and an intellect as ponies for example).

This season is not very good in my opinion... Probably tied with season 3 as my least favorite season of the show... for now. Maybe the final will make me revise my judgment. "Bad episodes" : Rock Solid Friendship (just because Pinkie was annoying and badly written... it took all the fun of this episode and just make me want to stop the episode before the end), Fluttershy Leans In (boring... like really boring... no real conflict and a dream coming from nowhere), Forever Filly (boring episode with two plots as equally boring as the other), Parental Glideance (RD's parents were really annoying and the moral missed by a mile what it was supposed to be), Hard to say anything (obnoxious characters, obnoxious musical number, and the humor was not that great), Honest Apple (boring and annoying episode, the only good joke of the episode being hard rock Rarity... and even this scene isn't that great), Triple Threat (I didn't understand this episode at all... Boring, cliché, with the map thrown in for no real reason... the only redeeming quality of this episode was all of the interactions between Thorax and Ember), Campfire Tales (Scootaloo totally out of character and being annoying all the episode, only one good tale and all the plot in the real world is uninterresting and lazely solved), Daring Done (poorly written, poorly edited, an obvious vilain with an obvious reveal, a save scene really stupid, a kidnapping scene even dumber, and a waste of a good lesson and idea for an episode to instead go for a moral which didn't even really have something to do with the core of the story) ... I wrote "Bad episodes" because it was what you asked for but it's more "Episodes I didn't enjoyed or liked" instead. And for 21 episodes as of now 9 are "bad" in my opnion... which isn't really great. Especially since I really consistently liked all of the seasons of My little pony so far (with season 3 as my low point). So it's really surprising for me that I would not enjoyed in the slightest season 7. Since I'm on the topic... "Meh episodes" : A Flurry of emotions (a bit boring but Twillight is really good, Pinkie and the Cake twins too, and Cadance and Shining Armor have a good appereance for once), Not Asking for trouble (The lesson wasn't really clear, the story wasn't that good, but Pinkie's antics and her chemistry with the Yaks and Gummy sold this episode to me), To change a changeling (The episode didn't live up to the idea behind it, the fight scene was laughably meh and Trixie was really too obnoxious even for what she is supposed to be), A health of information (Fluttershy was good, Twillight too... The legend was not that interresting and the plot which was really neatly written was a bit too messy for me at the end and the moral was kinda lost in all of this mess for me... plus the electric bugs were kinda not really originals). So 13 episodes out of 21 (so more than half) which I didn't like or just found it meh... So yeah, not a season for me I suppose. "Good episodes" : Celestial Advice (Good Celestia episode, good Twillight episode too, Discord was a bit too obnoxious for my taste but I enjoyed it nonetheless), All bottled up (good moral, a believable conflict which needed to be adressed and resolved, some good jokes... The only thing that bothered me was the magic red mist which came out of nowhere and will never be see again, and Trixie being able to teleport the map... I think this story could have been written without these weird elements), The Perfect Pear (a really great story which involved some unexpected characters and it was cool to see Miss Cake having a role, and seing all of theses ponies reacting to the death of the parents of the Apples, still some scenes seemed a bit... of for my taste, like all of the scene with Bright Mac destroying a water silow which was... yeah... And the fact that Buttercup was good at figuring people cutie marks which really came out of nowhere just for the sake of tiying Apple Bloom to her mother...), It isn't the mane thing about you (I didn't expect anything from this episode and was pleasantly supprised by it... Cool moral, Rarity at her finest, a random Pinkie song and the resolution was spot on). "Really good episodes" : A royal problem (Because it was an episode about the princesses, Celestia was great in it, Luna too, it showed us some character traits we don't usually see in regular episodes and it was cool, and seing Celestia confront her own fears to help Starlight defeat hers was great. Also really cute Twillight), Discordant Harmony (funny episode, a good moral, a good story, Flutter and Discord being neatly written, it was really a cool episode), Fame and Misfortune (good song, hilarious episode, good lesson and I really liked how the episode didn't solve for once the problem... even if the real problem was kinda solved at the same time)

Yeah it would be a good plot twist but... neh... Chrysalis was already the main vilain in Canterlot Wedding, To Where and Back again and from the look of what we got from season 8 will return as a vilain in another episode of the next season... So if she was faking being reformed to be the vilain in another episode she would be the main vilain of 4 double episodes which is clearly too much for that this character has to offer.

So now we have seen the five legends in the show. Time to finish my list 1. Mistmane 2. Meadowbrook 3. Flash Magnus 4. Somnanbula 5. Rockhoof

Not a great episode, but a good one nonetheless. The lesson felt a bit weird for me. Don't get me wrong, I think the lesson was good : taking care of yourslef to be able to take care of others is a really important one but... it just didn't really fit right in the narration for me. All of the first act was setting the lesson nicely with Fluttershy overworking herself to exhaustion and see her fail because of the fact she hadn't any rest would have conveyed the lesson at a good pace and without feeling forced. But by the law of the three acts script writting, Fluttershy caught the Swamp Fever as well and I think it was an error. Because after that it's an easy mistake to think she pass out because of the illness and not because of her previous actions. And Fluttershy didn't conciously decided to take a break but was forced to... So all in all the lesson was kinda lost in all this mess in my opinion. Still cool to see Meadowbrook after her first mention in the show (it's kind of stupid that she's an Earth Pony now whereas she was mentionned as a unicorn back in season 5... Twillight didn't even reference that and wasn't surprised in the slightest by the fact that Meadowbrook wasn't what she was said to be... it could have been an error... this episode could have fixed this problem but choose to ignore it totally). Her design was pretty good but not mindblowing and her story was not really that great either but what better than almost every other legends told so far (well there is very little competition since only Mistmane's and her's are any good in the first place...) All in all a pretty good episode. Fluttershy was good, Twillight and Zecora too. The descendant of Meadowbrook... yeah, didn't really care about him... he was mostly here as a plot device to keep the story moving but even as a plot device he was mostly useless since the ponies could have found the books by herselfs... he could have been cut entierly from this episode without any problem at all...

I think I will need to wait after the season is finished to give a fair judgment. Right now I think I could be biaised since I really didn't like the last few episodes in a row... so I think I would be harsher than usual about season 7... I remember having enjoyed some episodes in the begining of season 7 so I guess it wasn't a totally bad season. That's all I can say for now

Definitely Pinkie Pie.

Yeah. A really meh episode. If the legends are the common theme of this season and Campfire Tales and this episode are meant to built to the finale I'm afraid the writters did a very bad job about them since Campfire Tales was a bland and overall pretty meh episode and Daring Done too. I watched Daring Done some days ago and have pretty much no memory of it which isn't a really good sign since I usually have a pretty solid memory... guess Daring Done was just very forgettable and uninterresting. What I remember about it : I found it meh and boring and was glad when the episode ended since it was so painful to watch this story unfold. Pinkie wasn't written bad. The fact that nobody recognize Cabalerone was so stupid it hurt... either make it clear that the characters weren't fooled by the silly disguise, either make the disguise better to not insult the ones watching the episode please. The kidnapping of RD was... a really stupid scene. The kidnapping in the precedent Daring Do's episode was much more convincing than this poor excuse. The moral around hope seemed rubish and too direct to be a really good moral for anybody (yeah we need to have hope to advance, but it's not a miracle solution for everything). The story ov Insomnia had good design choices. And finally the fact that Daring Do had done nothing and it was all the fault of Cabalerone was a really big misopportuniy I think... It would have been cool to have a moral like "Sometimes in triying to do something good we can inopportunely do something bad at the same times. It's good to recognize that and to try to repair the errors we could have made... but we can't always think about everyone and how our actions would impact them or else we can't live our life" or something like that. Instead this story is about hope and Rainbow was right from the start to idolize Daring Do and think Daring Do can't do anything bad even by accident... and it pisses me off. Oh and the fact there was some sort of... blowing plateforms in the green liquid to allow Pinkie and Daring to save Rainbow was... dumb. I think it was my most hated scene of the episode. Yeah. I didn't really like this episode. The story of Insmonia wasn't that great even, probably my third favorite behind Mist Mane and even the pegasus one which wasn't even that well written. Yeah... not really impatient to see all of those legends returns in the last episode since the writter sold them very poorly to me...

What buged (huhuhu) a lot of people with the new Changelings was the fact what the transformation was really rushed and the Changellings just... kinda accepted to change what they were since they were born with one little speech and in one minute because the episode was ending. It was too easy and too forced what an entire population just magically agreed with Thorax without any real effort. The fact that at least one of them is still unwilling to transform after that and that the characters will need to explain properly why he should change will not fix the rushed ending and transformation of all the others but at least will give something more that the mess we had.

Yeah... a meh episode for me. The idea was good, the execution was not to my taste... Rarity was fine, Sweetie, Appleboom and AJ too but boy Rainbow and Scootaloo were poorly written in this episode. I know Rainbow has a massive ego, and I'm fine with it but when most of her lines during an episode are "I'm awesome", "Oh I like to talk about me !", "Even if this story wasn't about me, it wasn't bad." it's just ridiculous. For Scootaloo I wonder if the writter for this episode only saw once Sleepless in Ponyville before writting this episode. The previous camping episode wasn't about Scootaloo being a scaredycat, it was about the fact that even though she's supposed to be the tough one of the bunch she was also allowed to express fear. Here all she does for almost the entire episode is to be an over the top frightened character which got annoying very quickly. I know it was also a way to make Rainbow's story more relatable to what was happening but I seriously think it could have been tuned down a little because Scootaloo was really too jumpy. I think this problem was aggravated by the fact that Applebloom and Sweetie were very calm on the other hand. They're fillies too and they were shown at multiple times to be able to be scared too. But they were just fine with almost everything during this episode. It was so weird to see Scootaloo panic like this when the other two CMC didn't... As for the stories in themselves... it was the best part of the episode. Rarity's story was the best, very cool location, very cool characters, a good message overall. AJ's story was a bit on the ridiculous side and the ending came out of nowhere, the characters were... less memorables especially the guards which were... yeah... Rainbow's one was the most classic overall, nothing really original or interresting about it. I think the most cool thing about all of these are the fact they clearly inspired the three ponies, how they see the world and how they act. Maybe the legends would have been much more interresting if they were given much more time to be told. Here it was obviously rushed so it was a bit difficult to feel really something for these characters or to be invested. A meh episode as I said. Don't think I will be watching it again soon u_u

Yeah. Pretty bland episode overall, nothing much to say about it. It went pretty much like I thought it would. Still it was a pretty nice characterisation for Ember and Thorax two important characters in the lore who needed an episode to really shown what they're all about now since they became the leader of their peoples. I think that this episode is more of a Thorax/Ember episode than a Spike episode in fact. The Spike lesson was just thrown in here to allow the episode to be long enough and the story to unfold (the two becoming mad at Spike being the step allowing them to learn how to express themselves) but wasn't clearly the important part. The Ember/Thorax relationship, learning from each other, was and the evolution of the leaders too. Not sure if I am a fan of how the map was used in this episode. Spike being called is a good idea, he had his share of friendship since season 1 and can help without doubt... But in this episode it was just bullshit. The map normaly call the character to help defuse a friendship problem but in the end Spike didn't do anything about it really, he just resolved other things and never really did anything about the real task at hand. So why the map called Spike in the first place ? He didn't resolve the problem, Ember and Thorax did. Why is it mission accomplished ? He didn't do anything at all to resolve the conflict, it resolved by itself. I think the episode would have been better if Spike purposely invited Thorax and Ember to some sort of friendship summit but then would have been called next by the map to defuse a problem in Ponyville which Spike would have assumed would have been caused by Thorax and Ember personnalities not matching well. Which would have been a better explanation to Spike panic state with the map backing up his stress and doubt. And in the end Spike would have understand what the map wanted him to be a sort of bridge between Thorax and Ember to allow them to understand each other and learn from each other, just like in the episode. It would have made much more sense than Spike between suddendly non trusting of Ember and Thorax like that to the point of actually thinking that the two of them could actually start a war...

I loved this episode ! Sure it wasn't a very emotional episode with a lot of depht like some others but boy was it fun. It was just a fun ride with a fun core concept. The rythm of the episode was spot on, all of this story flow very naturally and with no break at all. It was just scene after scene of pure fun and randomness and the ride never seemed to wanna stop even for a minute. Plus the M6 were really good in this : they were in character before the all fiasco, they were in character during the incident and even at the end they were here one for another and true to themselves. And finally the song was a great one : catchy, with good lyrics... maybe a bit lazy on the animation part... My favorite part was the Pinkie verse because it sounded just so good... but I may be a bit biased on this part Overall, I really enjoyed this episode. One of this season best for sure. The second part of season 7 seems to me to start off as being better than the first part I found a bit meh.

Well... no, I don't think so. What would be the point to introduce a gay character in MLP other than... introducing a gay character in MLP ? In the first place the sexuality of the characters in Equestria aren't really a very focal point overall in the cartoon, the only two exceptions were Shining Armor and Cadance who are heterosexuals and Big Mac who clearly loves mare. For Shining and Cadance it was just for the sake of the plot : were needed to be a wedding and to introduce a new princess to sell so their couple was made up. For Big Mac it's just here to create two stupid episodes about love. The show is about friendship all in all and really stoped on the subject of love very few times because it never was the intention of the show to talk about this kind of subject. So why not a gay character. But... in the other hand... why bothering to do so ? For all we know Pinkie could be bi, Rainbow lesbian and Spike pansexual, but the show doesn't focus at all on this side of the characters and never will be apart if a story needs it, and like I said a bit earlier : the story rarely needs it. So in conclusion introducing this type of character would need to have a point, but in MLP it's very difficult to find a real reason to introducting it since it's not a show about this kind of thing. So no, I don't think we would see a gay character anytime soon. And for people who think plot shouldn't control what the characters are, keep in mind what characters and plot are linked to their core. Characters grow thanks to plot, the plot exist thanks to the characters. Adding a gay character just to have a gay character would just be pandering if it serve no purpose. It's not like that a story should work. (EDIT : If Equestria Girls show come true, it would be a better show to introduce a gay character althought. It would more fit in the highschool universe, and love was kinda here since the start even if not very used right)

Don't forget that ponies have also as a whole a pretty big weakness : they're nice sometimes to an absurd point. They are in general a pretty pacifist species and even if they have crazy control over their world their mentality could get in their way during a time of crisis. All their culture is based around finding what they can do to help society via their Cutie mark, preserving the balance and the harmony so if a crisis come they always had been pretty slow to react and it can also lead to bad decisions. This is shown during the fight against Tirek for example. Celestia and Luna are aware that Tirek musn't get his way but they decided to only use Discord to track him down with no backup to help him or to even keep him in check. They there so trusting in Discord and his ability to stop Tirek that they didn't even send some ponies to check at all times that was going in different parts of Equestria : they waited until Discord and Tirek were getting too powerful even for them to get a new plan of action so either they were not informed enough of that was going on (which is a very dumb thing to do in time of crisis) or either they were just too caught up in their vision of life to react fast and send the 4 princesses against an ennemy before he was too powerful. They're absurd nice way of thinking cause also all that arc with Chrysa : when she was send flying a normal country would have track her down and at least keep in check the Changelings because they attacked once so they always could come again with a new plan. But when it happened it's like they didn't even see it coming. They didn't even consider that the Changelings could come back for revenge. And they let Chrysa escape AGAIN and nobody even make a move to prevent her escape as she was slowly flying away. Because they can't imagine that she would be back for revenge. They wait until being under attack to attack. Yeah some ponies are meaner than Sunbutt or Twillight and her friends like for example Starlight, Flim and Flam or even Trixie with the alicorn amulet. But even them have this "nice and oblivious" core in the end. Starlight really believed Flutter when she said she accept Starlight's way (she didn't 100% trust her but let her make things on her own without monitoring her nontheless), Flim and Flam are mischevious but they made a bet with Applejack in spite of just going elswhere buying cheaper apples, making more cider thanks to their machine and selling it to the ponies to make Applejack go bankrupt. So yeah I think if the Yaks declare war to the ponies it would be stupid for them. But the fight would not be so one sided because at first the ponies would try to find a pacific way to end this and try to appease them, they also would make some stupid decisions because they wouldn't want to hurt the Yaks and even after the war they would let the Yaks live in peace somewhere until the next attack.

Nop. I personnaly teared up a bit (and tear up even when I rewatch them) during Crusaders of the Lost Mark and Tanks for the memories but The Perfect Pear didn't make me cry a bit. CofTLM was special because where was a lot of build up during all the previous seasons, so to see the CMCs finally get their cutie marks still give me a burst of joy in the form of blury eyes. And Tanks for the memories is just a very beautiful episode who is enjoyable and hit home pretty hard with it's moral when it aired because of personal reasons so it make me tear up. The last scene where Rainbow decide to stay to read a story to Tank always gets me. The fact that it was one of the best portrayal of Rainbow showing all of her range of emotions add up to a very great episode. The perfect Pear on the other hand... not so much... The story was not very relatable for me, the plot was a bit cliché to begin with so I wasn't as invested as I can be in episodes sometimes and even all the subtle things to tell us that the parents are dead didn't really make me cry since it's a fact that was already confirmed two times so all the shock value was gone and I was already prepared to hear this fact in some form during this episode. It was sweet but it was way too late to the party to actually make me care enough to be emotional.

To sum up : average. ► Celestial Advice : Really cool episode. A good way to start the season and to deal with the aftermath of last season finale. Good performance for Celestia. ► All Bottled Up : Another good episode. The Trixie/Starlight duo was on point. The Mane 6 story amusing. The writters kinda jump the shark there with the map vanishing because of Trixie but I allow it because it bringed a cool episode overall. ► A Flurry of Emotion : A good episode with a pretty good moral. Twillight and Spike were really on point. Pinkie too. It was also a good performance for Shining and Cadance who don't usually have much screentimes, but this episode helped me to considerate their couple as something more real than just a plot point and to show some chemistry between the two lovers. ► Rock Solid Friendship : I liked Maud and Starlight, and the relation between the two. But Pinkie was written really badly (even in the intro she was starting to get on my nerve) and so as a Pinkie fan it was very distracting and annoying to see her so oblivious and annoying during all of this. Some of her jokes worked thought like the one with the harp so it still is in the meh zone. ► Fluttershy Leans In : Boring episode. Weak conflict. Weak characters. Weak idea to begin with. Nothing awful but... I don't see me rewatching it any time soon. ► Forever Filly : A boring episode all in all. The idea of two stories leading to the same idea was good but... none of them were interresting in the slightest. Some dumb scenes too, like the little ice cream thingy... which is just a ridiculous concept (I don't see any filly being content with this amount). The episode was just repeating the same thing again and again : "Sweetie is obliviously too old/The dog don't like playing now" so... yeah... not awfully bad but not average neither. Just a bad episode. ► Parental Glideance : It could have been a good episode. Some good things : we finaly saw Rainbow's parents and Scootaloo talking about her parents and why we never saw them... to name a few. But this episode was butchered by Rainbow's parents in the first place, they were too annoying for my taste (maybe the fact what I have overbearing and supportive parents a bit like RD played in the fact that it was hardly watchable for me since I put myself in her hoofs easily) and even a bit dangerous with the fireworks for example. And the thing which put this episode in the meh zone is the ending which gave a bland moral and worst of all didn't aknowledge at all that in this conflict the two sides were both right and wrong, and not just let the parents go a freebie to do again whatever they want in spite of how embarassing or even dangerous it could be. ► Hard To Say Anything : Just a bad episode. Bad concept in the first place. Really weird scenes like the kissing scene. And even the relationship between Big Mac and Sugar Bell come out of nowhere since we didn't see the two of them interract that much. Saying that two characters are in love isn't enough for me. Making hearts appear in their eyes or all around them either. I can't even think of them as a couple right now in fact since I saw so little about them as a couple. ► Honest Apple : I don't know what to say for this one. Rarity playing guitar was the highlight of the episode... that's saying something since this scene wasn't really well animated or funny in the first place. A good moral but the concept in itself is pretty ridiculous in the first place with AJ judging clothes. The characters were bland, the pacing just slow. Photo Finish was the only thing saving this episode from the abyss in my opnion. ► A Royal Problem : The only problem with this episode it's is pacing since there was too much to tell in so little time. It was nice to see another side of Celestia and Luna (well to dig a bit in the side we saw in Slice of Life in fact). It's pretty much a given what people don't act the same way with different people. We always saw Celestia in public or in front of Twillight so doing her best to give positive image of her, but between the two sisters it's normal that we saw something else, especially since we know that the two sisters already fight in the past so their relation was far from perfect even then. But it also show us how deep down they love each other even if at the same time they appear to hate each other. It was a nice episode even without the apparition of Daybreak which was the cherry on top. ► Not Asking for trouble : Meh episode. Weird moral. Bland story. What make this story stand up as an average episode and not a bad one is the comedy : the Yak prince was funny, Pinkie was sweet, loveable and her antics were perfect... and it was an enjoyable ride thanks to theses characters. So if we take that into account I really enjoyed 5 episodes so far, found 5 episodes just average and 3 episodes really bad. None of the episode were as awfully bad as AJ Day Off or Kart before the Ponies... but none of them were as good as Do Princess Dream about sheep either... It's just an average season for me, a bit less interresting than the previous one, or season 5, or even season 4 ^^

Pretty good episode. I didn't enjoy it as much as some of you but it's pretty normal since romance stuff isn't really a thing which would touch me much. Nonetheless I like most of the scenes set in present time especially because of the fact we could see some backstory for already established characters (it was a nice touch to include the Mayor and Ms Cake in the story and even giving a bit of explanation to how the later received her cutie mark thanks to Butter Cup) and even the new character had a good scene with Big Mac which put him on board. The scenes set in the past were more hit and miss for me with all the lovey-dovey stuff I can't really stand and some strange scenes like the one with Bright Mac destroying the water tower. But hey... It's juste me ^^... I wasn't also very impressed by the rythm in some part (but it was expected with how much the episode try to tell us in so little time) and the ending was sweet but kind of raise the question about how none of the Apples ever found this special tree in the first place. It would have been much better if Granny knew all along this place, hide it and finaly show it at the end to her grand children and Grand Pear. But...my opinion again ^^... Now for my new personal headcanon after this episode : - Bright Mac and Butter Cup died during a trip triying to find the new Pear's home to reconnect with this part of the familly some years after the events of this episode. But during the trip an accident occur and they died before finding the Pears. - When Chiffon Swirl decided to change name at her wedding to become Cup Cake she choose the Cup part to pay tribute to her late friend Butter Cup.

Well it would be a bit weird kinda in a narrative standpoint but also about this story could work. If one random pony in Equestria has his flank blinking how will he know to go to Twillight's castle to receive a mission and discover that he need to help one of the Mane 6 without any previous knowledge of the map and what it is all about ? So the only person who could potentialy be called by the map would be characters who already have knowledge of the map and could come right away like some people in Ponyville, some people a bit more far away with knowledge of the map (Discord, the royal Sisters...) or people related to the map episode which could have learned about the map existence during the M6 rescue mission (Flim and Flam, the Hoofields and McColt, Coco, Vapor etc...). If the pony isn't one of this category it would be highly difficult to explain how they managed to understand the all blinking flank thing and where to go. For a narrative standpoint now. If the pony called is an inhabitant of Ponyville it would be much faster and cleaner to write the story without the map which is a cool device to make some ponie go out of their ways in distant lands to help but consume time out of the episode for nearly nothing if the pony called is a Ponyville pony to help in Ponyville. There is much faster and efficient way to make Ponyville ponies interract than using the map as a plot device. A random pony we don't know coming help would also be a very weird thing to do since the episode would need to introduce this new character during the episode. Moreover just introducing him would be not enough : if the map called him the episode should explain why and so flesh out the character a all lot to make him a believable character who could help and explain why any of the cast member couldn't replace him in this role. The only solution for this to work would be to keep this out of nowhere character for a bit much longer than one episode to flesh him out and give him a propre treatment before he could help a M6 member with the problem he was called upon. But what would be weird since MLP is very episodic and I don't think a lot of fan would really welcome a new "recurent character" after Starlight case. The map episodes work because we know the ponies helping and know about their psychology so when they make the right call or use previous lessons to resolve a conflict it's seems natural because we saw them grow and understands their actions. Even Starlight in Royal Problem resolve the problem by being herself. If a random pony come how would we know what he is and why he was the perfect pony for the job ? So in the end the only character who could coming to help one of the M6 member would be characters like Discord or the Royal sisters (but here again there are much more efficient way to drag them into resolving some sort of conflict in Ponyville, even if I kinda wanna see Discord being called by the map to let him apply what he learnt so far about friendship) or the previous characters needing help from the map and having knowledge of it which would a very cool idea I think to have some them kinda like given the change for what the M6 did for them...

But they're ponies

All in all that was a good episode. Rainbow Dash's parents were cool characters and it has good ideas like the parallel between RD ultra supportive parents and Scootaloo lack of which was a pretty cool concept to showcase. But some things were a bit off in this episode to be truly an excellent episode, mostly how was treated the lesson, the end of the story and the characters at fault. Here Rainbow take all the blame but the episode would have been so much better and clever if it would have shown instead that both sides were in the rigth and in the wrong at the same time. Of course it's important to tell kids (the target audience) that parents supporting them is a good thing and that shouting at them is not the best solution and in fact being agressive against someone in general is not the best way to treat your problems and explain your feelings but the way the episode was written Rainbow - even if she had her faults in this whole thing - was not the only one who should have learned a lesson. In fact a lot of scenes in this episodes were indicators that her parents were going too far with their supports : they disrupt a training session of the Wonderbolts with their shoutings, disrupt an autograph session with fans of the Wonderbolt, spoil a Wonderbolt show for every spectators around them with screams and even go as to shoot firework AT the Wonderbolts which was a very dangerous thing to do and could hurt Rainbow or one of her pal. So of course I think that at the end they would have learned what supporting someone is important but that they need to calm down sometimes in order to not kill someone with fireworks for example or even not spoil an event for every pony. In real life a constant support is as bad as no support at all and we shouldn't go in any extrem and I thought that was where they were going to go in this episode. Instead of that they decided to go with the more mundane and easy lesson to accept support from other no matter how invasive or destructive it is which is a good lesson I guess... but it just could have been more than that... and some scenes in the episodes made me really wonder if the original script for the episode wasn't gonna go in this direction but was change in later part of the production to become what we have now... ^^"

Well... that was something I suppose. I'm not much of a critical mind usually and I enjoy almost anything (in fact even the episodes commonly disliked by many are not disliked by me) but for the moment this season is kind of a mix bag for me. I liked some of the episodes (Clestial Advice, All Bottled up, A Flurry of Emotions, Parental Glideance to some extent...) but some of the others just didn't impress me in the slighest (namely Rock Solid Friendship which as a Pinkie fan was very hard to enjoy because of how she was written, Fluttershy Leans in with it's very weak conflict, Forever Filly with a pretty awful writting and rythm...). Hard to say Anything is definitly in the second category. First off I maybe am a little biaised on the matter since I'm asexual and 100% aromantic and because of that don't have much of an interrest in episodes talking about love mainly because I can't really relate to any of the characters in this sort of story. I can appreciate a story revolving about love but this story must be really good, interresting and really good written to hold my interrest and make me care for something as un-understable and dumb looking as someone having a crush on someone else. I didn't really enjoy the first love centric episode of MLP and this one was in my opinion not really better and maybe worse. This episode didn't make it interresting enough for me to care about what happened. The story was boring, it's writting was boring (the middle of the episode was just a row of scenes with Big Mac being an idiot and his rival having a good timing again and again, the song was here because without it the episode would have been too short and it wasn't really catchy so in the end it's really a waste of time, and even the end with Big Mac making the counter bigger has the subtlety of an elephant jumping on a trampoline in a flying plane since it was clear from the moment Sugar Belle randomly choose to talk about it what this would be what makes her choose Big Mac), and even the characters weren't really interresting : Big Mac characterisation was really strange (it would have worked before Where the Apple lies and Bortherhooves Social but now what we know a bit much Big Mac him being "shy" and going with any random crap idea the CMC have is not really something you can do), Something Bang had a bit of development at the end but all in all was a pretty generic antagonist just for the sake of being one, and if this story didn't interrest me in the slighest it's probably because we don't know very well Sugar Belle (most of her lines were said when she was under the control of Starlight and since then we didn't really spend time with her to really understand who she is, what her personality is really and just... who she is in general) so I didn't really care if she choose to date Big Mac or the other boy since I don't know her enough to understand how she think and what impact will have her choice on her life. In addition, this episode didn't really do anything to develop Sugar Belle as a character, she was mostly the girl both dudes want to get and apart the fact what she loves baking (which we already knew) and what having two dudes fighting for her and crashing her place is not something she enjoy (which is something a little bit obvious) I didn't really think I learn a thing about her. So all in all not the worst episode of the serie (Applejack's Day Off was still way much boring) but very meh nonetheless. I hope tomorrow episode will be not as boring and contrived.