An episode a day

[Gentian]

S7E20: A Health of Information

I felt this one was alright, and probably the best of the "legend" episodes that have come. I thought the lesson was good too, and I will say, I felt turning into trees was very dark for an MLP cartoon. I don't know, something about that made me wince at the thought of. Doesn't sound pleasant at all. Also, seems like Zecora is finally becoming somewhat relevant again. Odd, since she hasn't really done anything since that alternate timeline in the S5 finale. I will also say, I have some concerns with the finale and with the connection to these legend things it seems to try to set up. I mean, why would they only build episodes around two, but then dump the rest in a "campfire story" episode? If they're trying to relate them each to one of the mane 6, they could have done a much better job with that, by splitting up those campfire ones a bit. But I guess that's dependent on how this plays out. That being said, I also have serious concerns about the scale of the finale, it would be pretty lame to have a giant finale right after the big movie. Going back to, like I said, they should have went on hiatus.

I agree the tree thing was very dark. It doesn't fit what we know about the world, either. Zecora's lived in the swamp for years, how does she not know about those flowers? Celestia is a thousand years old, minimum, and lived in a castle in the Everfree, how does she, and by extension, her prized student living right next to the Everfree not know about them? Why was Twilight so OoC in trying to sleep when her friend was turning into a tree? How did Fluttershy out-research her? That's OoC for both of them.

All in all, I felt this episode was too dark, too OoC, and too nonsensical. Bleh.