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>>/11348/ Enter the ‘doozy;.Twilight Sparkle is suddenly healed and aiding Pinkie Pie and Applejack in going to help Fluttershy. I laughed way too much at Spike’s and Applejack’s conversation, with felt weirdly realistic and yet still funny. Realistic in the sense that Applejack seemed like a stressed adult who was trying to not let her mind run wild while Spike being a stressed adolescent panicing. Fluttershy randomly exploding twice in a row also feels like Spike has been reading too many comic books or something (same with his zombie ponies remark a few episodes back). I think the Hydra was an alright random monster threat, perhaps a bit under utilized consider mythology (though it is not like anypony could’ve tried to chopping heads off in this at the time E/I TV-Y kids show) and not the most splendid design, but oh, whatever. Here is a part where the episode becomes problematic when your attempting to overthink every detail: Twilight Sparkle’s actions in this fight. I don’t consider it irrational at all for her to be panicked and not thinking straight. While I think it ‘’might'’ be reasonable to assume Twilight’s magic training and tutelage under Celestia had some combat training I don’t think Twilight was groomed to be a monster slayer or anything. This Hydra was huge and she and the others have been shown to be prone to some panic. It is the relative innocence of the setting here. What does feel off is when she does gain some confiendence not using magic, at all. I am not taking about in directly fighting the monster but stuff like telekinesis or the most glaring one I saw people point out in the past, teleportation! This is why I refer back to: > ‘’Spike! This magic needs our full attention to make it happen. There's no other way!'’ Listen, this is season 1 and I know that haven’t given super detailed thought to stuff like this, but, was this not just for a joke but an attempt to explain what happened here? I legitimately wonder it. As for any theorizing, I am going to call a spade a spade and just say Twilight Sparkle doesn’t think straight in a panic sometimes as that explanation makes less sense to me considering what happened with Twilight’s brief confrontation with Nightmare Moon. The lesson, eh, that deserves its own section and probably the most shaky part of the episode. As for my rating for this episode, I am split, 6.1/10 or 6.5/10. I can’t decide! It was a good to alright episode despite certain controversy associated with it with my main problem perhaps being the wording of the lesson over anything that happened in the episode itself.