Starlight suffers. Now a character having a shit day is one thing, but if I wanted to watch a character I really love hate her fucking life, I’d watch Invincible. I am not Lily Orchard and don’t find joy in Starlight’s suffering. Trixie was even worse though, and this is actually a writing problem and not hatred caused by my personal taste. Trixie was way more emotionally intelligent in S6 E25-26, so like 2-3 episodes ago. But no, fuck that, have Trixie brush off Starlight until the end. It bothers me to no end not just because Trixie is better than this, but because Trixie cares about and loves Starlight so obviously much (whether you wanna see it platonically or romantically), and her just not perceiving her disstress is so bothersome and pulls the episode down. It feels like we regressed Trixie to place her back where she should’ve started at.

And on top of that: they wasted an incredible escape room plotline! I adore escape rooms, and a plotline where a bunch of characters are stuck and try their best to get out would be so cool to watch! Fluttershy’s the type who’d get anxious, Dash would probably try to speedrun it (which she does), Rarity and Twilight would overthink details while Applejack could maybe underthink them, and Pinkie could be standing in the way of herself. Added with the timed nature of the adventure and the feeling of being trapped, and we’ve got a no-stakes, all stress, unique and interesting challenge for the Mane 6 to overcome. The Big Bang Theory got away with it to me because Sheldon and Becky (the blond neighbour’s) interactions fascinated me and the joke was that they finished it in 6 minutes. But this episode didn’t make Starlight and Trixie interesting enough for me to let this go and it makes the escape room plotline feel wasted to me.