
AAAAAAH THIS EPISODE WAS SO GOOD, THIS SEASON IS SO GOOD

Realtalk: It so happens that I've been a distant friend in the past few years, and a gathering of the old gang at a recent funeral drove the point home. It's been on my mind a lot lately. So this episode not only kicked me in the feels, it kicked me in the
balls of the feels. It pokes at some very valid emotional truths, and does so with great precision.
Depressing, though, that part of the message is how easily one can, through emotional carelessness, ruin someone else's life inadvertently. Though I guess that's actually true? And anyway, to balance it, we get three counterexamples where there are no hard feelings and everything's peachy. I admit, I was worried at first that Minuette's friendliness was hiding something, and she and her friends were leading Twilight into some horrible
Carrie revenge. Nope! They're just awesome! That's part of the message too, I guess: sometimes people are just awesome and it's okay. (Twilight and Lyra's relationship remains ambiguous, seemingly.)
It may take some time before I stop thinking of Minuette as Colgate. Wanna see her and Pinkie team up for future parties, though. Also, I need for Twilight and Moondancer to team up during the next calamity for a research tag team the likes of which Equestria has never known.