Shadow's Seasons: Flutter Brutter · 4:14pm Jun 4th, 2016
Hello, everyone! And welcome to the tenth episode in my Season Six review series!
This time, we're looking at Flutter Brutter by Dave Rapp.
Now then, I can understand that an episode can be hyped up by an awful lot of bronies, but does that always essentially mean it will be good? That's the main question, and there will be times when it will be, and times that it won't. But I can hand-on-heart say that this episode. WAS one of the times when it did work out.
The synopsis of this episode is Fluttershy's brother, Zephyr Breeze—voiced by Ryan Bell—decides to move in with Fluttershy after she and her family kick him out of their own house in Cloudsdale. And during the time he spends in both his parents' house and in Fluttershy's, he's very much a freeloader who doesn't want to work for a second without things getting difficult. And even on the easier jobs, he still manages to muck it all up.
This episode feels very similar to It Ain't Easy Being Breezies with both its' moral and the new character introduced, and as I mentioned many times before, that was my favourite episode of the season. So I went into this episode with very high hopes, and lo and behold, they didn't disappoint.
Zephyr Breeze as a character is just like anyone who's too lazy to get a job or find a home of some description, and the way that he acts is very laid back like he knows what's going on, yet deep down, he's a big failure and is too much himself to admit this.
As time passes, he's eventually given more and more jobs, but he flunks out of each and every one either by outsourcing the work to another character, or just by running away. This in turn causes Fluttershy to kick him out of her own house and send him to live in the forest. Again, this is very similar to IAEBB, but this time, Fluttershy is not afraid of disappointing her brother, as she knows that he's in the wrong, and that he doesn't want to admit it.
Later, we find Zephyr trying and failing to even live as an independent being. While living in the forest, not only does he fail to establish food, shelter, and water, but he lashes out at everything because of it. I can understand that living as an independent being can be difficult, as I will be taking up an independent living course in college this September, so I like this episode more because it's letting me know what's in store for me.
At the end of it all, however, Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash come together and give Zephyr a little helping hand in realizing his potential and skill as an individual through a musical number called "I Can Do it On My Own." This song is quite well thought out, and serves as another great inspiration for those who will be facing stuff on their own. It tells them to never give up, keep on going, and show that even as one person, you can do great things.
In the end, Zephyr graduates from Mane Therapy School, and has a great life ahead of him. And it's all thanks to the help of Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash.
Flutter Brutter was one of the most overhyped episodes of the season thus far, purely because Fluttershy's brother, mother, and father were announced to be in it. And despite the hype can shift how the episode can look as a whole, the episode quality didn't falter here.
It was well paced, well structured, had some great humour, and had a great moral for independence among young adults who will soon be living on their own and making a name for themselves. If you can just keep trying, working hard, and devoted to your job, then you will succeed. You will prosper, and you won't need to leech off of your parents anymore.
Overall, this episode has turned out to be one of the best episodes of Season Six, as everything has gone perfect. There was no element of cringe-worthy humour, nothing too boring or out of place, and most of all, appealing to watch. It's avoided everything that the previous episodes in past seasons have done to falter at the final hurdle, and has carved itself into one of the top spots for MLP episodes as a whole.
I also don't really have a humourous exaggeration to finish this review off.
It was smooth as Brutter...
Thank you very much for reading, and join me next week, when I'll be covering Spice Up Your Life.
Until then, farewell...
her bro is a dick but i like the message of the episode as its one i can relate to in life right now
Now this is a way to show Fluttershy's assertiveness! I also enjoyed this all the way through and was touched to see her brother accomplish something not disastrously.
While I can see your point of view, this just isn't the episode for me.