We’re halfway through the Season! And I can safely say, we have a 12 out of 13 streak of enjoyable episodes.

Now this wasn’t the most amazing episode. But that’s not what I was expecting anyway. My expectations were set at something around Hearts and Hooves Day. An episode that also liked Simple Ways had Romance as part of it’s humor that I enjoyed quite a bit actually.

And… I think it delivered spectacularly. I surely hope that among people who may not like the episode is just because it has one of the main characters fawn over a new Male character (AKA one of the first reasons, but definitely not the only one people like I don’t like Flash Sentry’s place in Equestria Girls). It works this time because Rarity having dreams of settling down with a certain stallion is in-character for her. We saw Rarity really want Prince Blueblood back in Season 1 before he turned out to be a jerk. Rarity is the romantic type. Flash Sentry was there just to be there and the story would have barely changed if he had not been in the movie in the first place. While Trenderhoof in Simple Ways was plot relevant and actually had a notable personality and background.

(Oh and speaking of the whole Flash Sentry thing. Another scratch against EqG’s canonicity. Twilight’s the one that notices Rarity has a crush. And nopony calls her out on that and refers to Flash Sentry. Hehe.)

This episode just has really good dialogue and character related jokes. If some are turned off by the premise, I could understand why people may not like this episode as much. But I’m not the biggest romance fan in the world. Yet I enjoyed Hearts and Hooves Day and this one as well for similar reasons: they were hilarious. I could see Rarity saying “I LOVE BEING COVERED IN MUD” being the line of the episode that makes me laugh no matter how many times I see it much like “OH COME ON!” from Hearts and Hooves Day. Crazy Rarity was just amazing, and Applejack shrugging off Trenderhoof while managing to help Rarity at the end really was nice to see.

Romance at all being a part of an episode is going to be put under very subjective opinions. Some people will probably hate this episode for the premise alone. Love Triangles like this kinda ruined some things about the first season of Legend of Korra where the Love Triangle would begin and annoyingly be brought up again to make viewers cringe. But this is Friendship is Magic, where not a lot of things are changed immediately that affect future episodes (There are obvious exceptions of course however). So I don’t think we’ll be seeing Trenderhoof for a while now for example. People could choose to bypass this episode and it wouldn’t really come up again in later episodes. But regardless, I liked the episode for what it’s focus really was on: The humor of Rarity trying to act like Applejack, and many of the jokes as a result of character interaction (Ex: Spike’s face when Rarity mentions how she can’t handle “Liking someone when that someone likes someone else already). A lot of what happens in the episode makes sense, the humor was masterfully done. Great performance by Tabitha in her voicework in the episode. A nice and funny episode to get to the halfway mark of the Season. We’re halfway though the season, and another 13 to go. The next 13 will really have to screw up big time for this to not be the best Season now as we have our best 13 episode stretch of the series so far.