• Friendship with competition? They should get AJ and Dash to give a TED talk.
• "How are you going to entertain them both?" Maybe by -- and I know this sounds crazy --
entertaining them both? 
I dunno, would have liked more elaboration of the problem before the credits.
• I am, though, warming to Thorax as a big ol' dork despite appearing like a noble alien king or whatever.
• I wonder how dragons and changelings got along under Chrysalis and Torch. Those would've been some badass wars.
• Ember with the Iron Man landing

• Ha,
this close to devouring the band.
• Also this close to saying "you ponies all look alike to me".
• Starlight digs Ember and is best pony once again.
• Ember, quit chewing the scenery!

• Spike gets a map quest! Why not!
• We had to wait a long time for Thorax to become a bear. Kinda worth it, though.
• Yeah exactly, so what?
• "May the flame of friendship burn for eternity! OK let's get this flame extinguished, the rental place closes at 5."
WHAT I THOUGHT: This one didn't do much for me. The stakes were low and Spike's anxiety didn't make a lot of sense. But all the individual characters were great! So I think this was an episode that sabotaged itself by being all about keeping the characters apart, when character interaction was its main strength all along.
Also Ember rocks (which I knew already) and Thorax kinda rocks (which I didn't) and Starlight super rocks (which I totally did).