S7E20: "A Health of Information" · 10:12pm Sep 25th, 2017
Yeah, I know, I'm late. In brief: this was a good episode. Fluttershy was great, Twilight was generally reasonable, Zecora was back, the swamp fever stuff was surprisingly dark, things worked out in the end. I'll be watching this one again. ★★★★
Basically everything you just said. Though I would have liked at least a little more tree-ing.
So that explains where the Library Oak came from, and why they can't find the first librarian of Ponyville.
That almost rhymed throughout.
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You see what two Zecora episodes in a row does to me?
Haven't seen the episode, but the plot alone made me do a double take. It is uncannily similar to a fic I was working on earlier this year, but with Fluttershy's and Zecora's roles reversed.
Of course, I don't see it as anything other than a coincidence; I gather the details diverge fast from that narrative foundation. It's merely another one of those weird curveballs the universe likes to throw at me.