![]() ![]() Although there's a potential plothole – why didn't she tell the Mane Six that she created the Tantabus earlier? – it doesn't cause any real problems. This is Luna's first central role since "Luna Eclipsed" (as opposed to those eps in which she helped the CMC), and personally I think it's a good deal better. Luna does a lot of serious magic in this episode I like it when this happens – when we're reminded that the world of My Little Pony is a dangerous place, as it has been since G1 days. By the time it grows strong later in the episode, there's a very real chance that it could turn Equestria into a "living nightmare". ![]() The Tantabus is almost literally a nightmare made flesh, and it proves to be a very dangerous opponent indeed. Then, after a little bit of lampshading of Spike's side-character status, we get into the proper stuff. I still don't particularly like it – certainly not as much as the Elements of Harmony – but it's pretty harmless here, and putting it in a dream allows us to pretend it doesn't really count! Still, it gave the team an excuse to bring back Rainbow Power for a few moments. This episode starts with another Nightmare Moon transformation – or so it seems, until we discover that it was all a dream. It's no secret that I'm not as much of a rabid Luna fan as a large chunk of the fandom, but I have been warming to her over the last season or so. Still, these things have to come good sometimes, right? And this one, mirabile dictu, did just that. ![]() ![]() Scott Sonneborn wrote it, from a story by Jayson Thiessen and Jim Miller. Dick title reference, was that dreaded thing: a multi-credited episode. This mood was punctured a bit by the mess Hasbro made of their hiatus announcement, but at least we had one more ep before the break. If there's anything around here more epic than this, I want it caught and shot nowĪfter last week's wonderful episode, most of us were on a high. ![]()
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