S07E20: A Health of Information

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S07E20: A Health of Information

Postby Wayoshi (?) » Wed Sep 20, 2017 8:28 pm

While helping Fluttershy gather supplies, Zecora comes down with a terrible disease called Swamp Fever; even though a cure has not been discovered, Fluttershy makes it her mission to heal Zecora no matter what it takes.


This thread is for discussion of the episode. This episode airs at 11:30 Eastern / 8:30 Pacific on Saturday, September 23!

Official preview clips and images are okay to post, as is speculation about the episode.
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Postby Octavia (?) » Wed Sep 20, 2017 8:31 pm

Two episodes in a row with Zecora! :doomed:
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Wed Sep 20, 2017 8:56 pm

Somehow I can’t help but be reminded of Fluttershy’s misadventures with Philomena all those years ago. Of course, I don’t expect Zecora to be reborn in her own flames.
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Postby Applepie (?) » Wed Sep 20, 2017 9:19 pm

Interesting to have more old gens callbacks.
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Wed Sep 20, 2017 10:19 pm

Let's face it, when Zecora herself doesn't know a cure, it's time to plan the funeral. :fluttersmith:

I hope the fever makes her delirious and speak in non-rhymes.

Or different rhymes. :ack: "Dactylic hexameter! It's worse than I feared!"
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Postby Aramek (?) » Wed Sep 20, 2017 10:38 pm

If we get tribal Fluttershy I'm gonna flip my shit.

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Your MRI results have shown total infection to now be approximately one fifth of the full mass of the tissue.

"So you're saying..."

Your brain is about 20% tumor.
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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Thu Sep 21, 2017 4:29 am

I bet Swamp Fever is like a common flu that naturally clears up after a few days but Zecora humors Fluttershy by letting her think she is taking care of her to make Fluttershy feel better about herself.
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Thu Sep 21, 2017 4:53 am

Aramek wrote:If we get tribal Fluttershy I'm gonna flip my shit.

Oh my God, the timelines are converging!

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Postby Aramek (?) » Thu Sep 21, 2017 12:26 pm

Mmm, that's the good shit.
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"So you're saying..."

Your brain is about 20% tumor.
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Postby Kronos (?) » Fri Sep 22, 2017 5:28 pm

Aramek wrote:If we get tribal Fluttershy I'm gonna flip my shit.

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Aramek is going to be a very happy individual if one of the preview shots was any indication. :allears:
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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Sat Sep 23, 2017 2:07 am

New pony episodes always make me so happy.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sat Sep 23, 2017 3:38 pm

This is life cycle of Xenomorphs... :gotcha:
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Sat Sep 23, 2017 3:42 pm

I'm cracking up that it's TWILIGHT who's saying that everyone needs to rest once in a while. :gotcha:
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Postby drunkill (?) » Sat Sep 23, 2017 3:52 pm

Finally fluttershy can have her lifelong dream of being a tree.
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Postby Octavia (?) » Sat Sep 23, 2017 4:01 pm

Really liked this one. :whatsup:
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sat Sep 23, 2017 4:02 pm

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:allears: I liked this episode. Fun little adventure and it's great seeing Fluttershy so determined.
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Sat Sep 23, 2017 4:03 pm

Another great Fluttershy episode. Nice faces too. :yay:

Nice touch to have one of Zecora's symptoms be forgetting to rhyme.

Those flash bees are nasty.



Big props to Fluttershy for figuring everything out almost single hoofedly. A+ pony. :allears:
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Postby Aramek (?) » Sat Sep 23, 2017 4:03 pm

That was really cute.

Magic illnesses really are some body horror shit, eh?
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Your MRI results have shown total infection to now be approximately one fifth of the full mass of the tissue.

"So you're saying..."

Your brain is about 20% tumor.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sat Sep 23, 2017 4:09 pm

Only thing I would have liked to see is it really be a Fluttershy and Twilight episode, rather than Twilight just kind of being there.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat Sep 23, 2017 4:24 pm

This is another one where I dearly appreciated the moral. I know from personal experience how regret and guilt are insidious forces, how such feelings can make someone shut down entirely or go to insane extremes like Fluttershy did here. Even in the face of a possibly fatal disease, Fluttershy didn't give up; she went well past being heroic and into self-destructive territory, so it certainly is fortunate that she got some rest. You simply can't keep going 24/7 even in dire circumstances, and you also mustn't let your own negative feelings turn circumstances so dire in the first place. Both are excellent lessons.

I suppose I was right to compare this to the events of A Bird in the Hoof, though reaching back to S1 I'm also reminded of Stare Master. Remember how how Fluttershy, in order to bring the petrified Twilight back to life, risked her own life on her willpower dominating the cockatrice's? That might've worked again had she not been so sick, tired, and worn down by her own guilt when she was dealing with the flash bees.

Aramek wrote:Magic illnesses really are some body horror shit, eh?

Had Zecora already turned into a tree by the time Fluttershy and Twilight got back to the Everfree Forest, I would guess that pouring the honey on the tree's roots would've yet cured her, but still... yeah.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Sat Sep 23, 2017 4:40 pm

Fucking wood coming out of a blemish on your skull.
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"So you're saying..."

Your brain is about 20% tumor.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat Sep 23, 2017 4:49 pm

Aramek wrote:Fucking wood coming out of a blemish on your skull.
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Postby adiwan (?) » Sat Sep 23, 2017 5:18 pm

Thought's to the episode:
* Cat Tail's response to the unspeakable thing that happened is the same when someone in our D&D group comes back after one session of absence and wants to know what happened.
* The illness is pretty sick. In our D&D group one character died because of a magical illness in the middle of the jungle and turned into a plant because of that.
* Besides that it's peculiar that Twilight couldn't use her telekinesis to take out the honey out of the nest. Magic bee protection or just a plot hole? You decide!
* I liked that Dr Muffintop showed up and continues this season's theme of background ponies stepping a bit more to the front.
* Zecora not rhyming?! WOW!
* Return of the book horse digging through books and her new apprentice that became quickly her master.
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Postby RudeCyrus (?) » Sat Sep 23, 2017 6:45 pm

Messy mane Fluttershy :3:

This was a cute and fun episode. Twilight's disappointment at the small library was great.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Sat Sep 23, 2017 6:52 pm

Thing we laughed the hardest at was Fluts packing the cauliflower bites.

Twi, having her priorities right, instantly goes "AWW!"
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"So you're saying..."

Your brain is about 20% tumor.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sat Sep 23, 2017 6:56 pm

Aramek wrote:Thing we laughed the hardest at was Fluts packing the cauliflower bites.

Twi, having her priorities right, instantly goes "AWW!"


:3: Lets take a second to call out how adorable it is that Twilight and Spike were just spending the day cooking things for each other.
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Postby Captain Rufus (?) » Sat Sep 23, 2017 7:02 pm

It was an ok episode. Nothing special but nothing bad either. The plague masks were kinda neat though.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Sat Sep 23, 2017 7:11 pm

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:3: Lets take a second to call out how adorable it is that Twilight and Spike were just spending the day cooking things for each other.

And Fluts knows that she's not good at it, so she was all "Uhh, are you cooking...?" :fear:
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Sat Sep 23, 2017 7:43 pm

Even better, it was a Cook Off. Twi and Spike were competing on whose dishes are better. :awesomedash:

Evidently, Twilight's was actually good.
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Postby adiwan (?) » Sat Sep 23, 2017 8:13 pm

After rewatching the episode I noticed a little thing Fluttershy said: she translated a book from "old Ponish".
What do they speak now? Do they speak new Ponish? High Ponish? Equestrian Ponish? Pony Ponish? Or just <insert dominant language in broadcasting country>?

This is what 7 seasons do to a pony:
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Postby Kronos (?) » Sat Sep 23, 2017 8:33 pm

I feel like this whole thing was just 'let's take the joke of Fluttershy wanting to be a tree to the next level'. Still, fun episode even if it wasn't as good as the previous ep where Rarity goes insane over her mane - but then again crazy Tabitha is hard to top as it is.

Also a minor nitpick, but after they get the honey, it seems they try to set up a question of 'in the end, is this the cure?' by skipping directly to giving it to Zecora, but by doing so they show Fluttershy [i]already cured[/quote] when she's administering the dose.

More than made up for the fact Zecora missed a rhyme - after seven seasons we finally get her to not rhyme. Quite a long time honestly.
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Sat Sep 23, 2017 11:28 pm

It's my little pony, but I'm happy to share. :vogue:

• "Criss-Cross Moss" and prehensile zebra tails. Episode opens strong with a solid first 3 seconds. :allears:
• I'm glad Fluttershy remembered she owns a sanctuary; kinda thought she'd neglect it for 6 months and the animals go all Lord of the Flies.
• Spots?! Fluttershy's got rabbititis! :waugh:



• Credits. Well, at least Zecora's not too sick for picture day.
• I SWEAR ETERNAL FLUTTERVENGEANCE UPON ALL FLOWER-KIND
• Oh, this is where Zecora decides to break bad and sell meth.
• Zebras must process grief differently, she went straight to acceptance. :pinkieshrug:
• Nothing calms a feverish toddler like legends of a freaky mask!
• I hope Spike's cauliflower bites were the cure all along.
• I also hope Fluttershy goes home to ask her parents about the story!
• the day Twilight Sparkle overstudied :shock:
• "Old Ponish"
• Oh god, are we going to see Fluttershy in a plague doctor mask? Also, the faces this week are pretty great.
• Twilight is mostly concerned about those sweet potato muffins.
• Rhyme fail! :flutterdear:
• Sleep deprived driven Fluttershy has a place in my top ten Fluttershys.
• Cattail is a crazy design.
• Oh, I'm glad the tree house isn't Meadowbrook herself!
:excite: "This is just like that donkey sci-fi book, The Andromedary Strain!"
• We're increasing the stakes 'cuz nobody cares about Zecora.
:butwhy: "Don't mess with me! I'm assertive and crazy!"
• Oh no, the bees are stareproof!
:dreamworks: "If I had done as Twi suggested, I could have slept and been all rested!"
• Dear Princess Celestia: SLEEEEEEP! Your friend, Fluttershy.

SUMMARY: Yeah, it was good! Nice to see Fluttershy stories that speak to a different aspect than her shyness. Zecora's rhyming gets a C- this week though.
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Sat Sep 23, 2017 11:36 pm

Aramek wrote:Fucking wood coming out of a blemish on your skull.

It's one of those cases where a children's show avoids saying "death" by coming up with something even more horrible. :ngh:
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sun Sep 24, 2017 12:11 am

:nnngh: Dear Princess Celestia. Today I learned about Mage Meadowbrook, an absolutely terrible pony who never made public her cure for an absolutely horrifying disease....
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sun Sep 24, 2017 12:51 am

I think I'm going to have to watch this one again to figure out how I feel about it. It's sort of one of the most normal episodes we've had in a while, and sort of not.

But hey, welcome back for 13% of your appearances in the show this season, Zecora! :ohboy:
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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Sun Sep 24, 2017 1:57 am

You know what is worse then bees?

Taser bees.
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You know what is worse then a disease that slowly turning you into a tree?

I don't know.
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Postby Niels Olof (?) » Sun Sep 24, 2017 6:45 am

I posit that this whole episode was a parable about how, as an animator, Flash will sting you, if you are not well rested and thinking clearly. If you have the right mindset, i.e., have got your head/mask on right, you will be rewarded with sweet, sweet honey for all that ails you.
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