Dawn-Sunlight

It was really bad. The new outfits were really cool, but that doesn't matter. The quality of the music video is what matters, and it was really vague. Maybe that was their intention, but it was still too vague for my taste, like, are they reformed, or are they just figuring out how to use magic in a different way? Also, this song feels a lot different than the other songs they've sung before, again more vague, but also lighter and softer and higher. Also, since when did they get their pendents back or learn to sing really well without the working pendents? I honestly do not trust the writers enough at this point to give the Dazzlings a proper redemption or even to not reform them, because the writers just love snapshot redemption don't they? I'm worried that the writers won't do the Dazzlings justice in their next appearance if they do appear again, which would be a real shame, because not including this short they are one of my three favorite villains of MLP. Another thing, in this short, all the elements that made the Dazzlings fun were gone, I want to see them not in a music video so that we can see their fun-ness. One thing that wasn't a problem to me was the setup, I honestly didn't mind that we didn't see their journey, because obviously time passed and on second thought I don't actually know what I assumed, but it was something that kept that fact from bugging me. Also, this was yet another example of fan-pandering. When will you stop, Hasbro?!

Smolder is my favorite of the young 6 because she has had the most development out of the young 6, she has a great personality, and I love what Hasbro did with her by putting her in episodes with Spike because they're both dragons, so Spike can get some answers to dragon culture. Hasbro can't really do that with any of the other young 6 except for Sandbar, and they have so many pony characters already that Sandbar kinda would just blend in in an episode that didn't center around the young 6, whereas for Smolder, she is one of 3(now 5) dragon characters that are actually characters with personalities and names and speaking lines, the other 4 being Spike, Garble, Ember, and Sludge, so she does stand out as her own character. Also, she's adorable and sarcastic, yet sweet.

This was an episode that Starlight needed, it shows that yes, she actually HAS learned something about friendship, and she is actually a REALLY good consular, and I would say this is probably the best Starlight episode we've had so far, the pacing was not a problem for me as I honestly didn't notice it, and since the Tree house of Friendship is relatively new, I'm not surprised that nopony thought of looking there, as Starlight seems to be the only pony who even knows about it. I honestly didn't think to look there for Silverstream until they were in the forest, and since Starlight was so worried for Silverstream, it's no wonder she forgot. The Tree house was new and she was stressed, huh, I wonder why she forgot. . . I did not actually know that information on cockatrices until now, and the info felt natural in the episode, and AWWWWW, look at the cockatrice that SIlverstream is holding! Also, considering that way back in season 1 in "Stare Master" it was revealed that cockatrices could reverse their stare so that other creatures could get un-turned to stone, I always assumed while watching the episode that a cockatrice can just turn off it's stone-gaze. I love how much better Mudbriar is. It is annoying to be corrected for the smallest of things that are so insignificant that WHO CARES! It was nice to see that everypony was giving him looks when he was commenting about things that in the grand scheme of things, or even right then, didn't really matter. Maud was hilarious as usual, it was great to see Terramar again since I thought he was never going to get another speaking appearance, Trixie's anger was justified, but I think she took it a bit too far, and Sunburst was at his best in the whole episode. I will say, it is a little bit weird that Starlight would forget about that party, it seems to me that she would at the very least remember why Sunburst was coming just based on how she reacted in season 7 in the episode "Uncommon Bond" to him coming to Ponyville. Overall, a good episode that Starlight needed, but it was an exhausting episode because a lot of it was tense and action-y. Also, a great moral that says that, you have to do your work and you can't just decide to not do your work, but you shouldn't overwork yourself either, a theme that is really good to teach kids.