MLP:FIM Flurry of Emotions

This episode introduces us to two new writers for the show, Sammie Crawley and Whitney Wetta, who do a fantastic job on their first episode. This episode is storyboarded by Elise Stevens (who as far as I can tell is another newcomer) and Tim Maltby (who started boarding for the show last season).

This is an excellent episode that manages to be adorable without ever feeling forced. Much of this is achieved through Flurry Heart. I know there have been many baby characters in many shows over the years, but this one works better than so many others I have seen. This is because so many of those characters are either trying too hard to be cute or can be more annoying to the audience than to the characters. Flurry works so well because she just seems so natural. She is cute and the episode lets us get into her mind enough (without the use of dialogue I may add) that when she does misbehave we understand and aren't annoyed by her doing so. As well as Flurry all the other characters are great. Twilight seems to be back to her worried freaking out adorkable self and the episode is all the better for it, Pinkie only gets a brief appearance but it is delightful and Spike is proving that he is a truly great straight man to Twilight's freak-outs, and on top of this is given time to shine as a comic at the episode's end and does a great job.

-Michael J. Ruhland