The episode I am going to bring up here doesn´t deliver anything spooky on its own or at least, the tone of the show doesn´t change at all. In fact, there is neither Nightmare Night theme nor anything explicitly dark that would make you outright scream or at least, feel special for this date. So, what´s the alternative to choose for that comfortable time mean to give you chills?
Well, /endpone/ has dealt with the last two seasons yet the board hasn´t fully dived into season 7´s territory. I have wanted to review this episode since the summer (at least) and deserved a spotlight. Just that I am picking the most opportunistic for an anticlimatic topic that isn´t proper of this event. Dear anon, there is no escapism to be found here because this season 7 episode will remind you about the world that you are living in, here in 2020. The episode that aired 3 years ago and I am talking about is...
I am starting with a question here: How much are you willing to sacrifice yourself for a friend? Tell me, what price would you be capable to pay for just to assure the wellness of that entity that you passionately care about?
Furthermore, I have heard of people even desiring to go to Equestria with all their passion as a desperate way to escape but, have you even wondered if you are even going to get rid of the current problems that you are facing nowadays? Perhaps not all of them and sometimes, said ideal world might not be that golden gate to the heavens that you are waiting for. At least, you won´t be free of this matter of health that you, as a viewer who might have mocked at the innocent nature of MLP in the past, are scared and have had to face at some point for this year.
I have heard all kinds of opinions about this show and one of those complaints was aimed at the inclusion of human material/culture over there, despite having locations that were strictly based on the US since the very first season. Some people notice certain political undertones, others just review allegories of certain controversial topics on specific episodes, others simply notice the meta references dedicated to the community and so on. Basically, all of this combined share their own contribution for adding those human elements to the show and...Perhaps, they have even surpassed the line...but not in the ways that they expected while writing this episode.
If Hasbro aired this episode in 2020, maybe it would have impacted more among the fanbase and some fans would have called Hasbro out for jumping onto the bandwagon for the current situation. Nonetheless, this episode was released in 2017, not in 2020 and I seriously wonder how fans haven´t decided to revisit this episode and dedicate more fan material to it. Like I said in the seapony thread, it came too late to even have a lasting impact, most material that was released after 2015 or so would impact much less in comparison with the years in which MLP reached the peak in its popularity. This episode came and went without much attention which wouldn´t have produced the same result if it had aired today.
