S6E12: "Spice Up Your Life"

I'm back from a week's holiday, so here's a very late episode review! No need to avoid spoilers after a week, so: I thought this was a solid episode, but one that could have been so much better. In particular, why wasn't the song turned into a huge, all-dancing Bollywood extravaganza? I was confidently expecting the reprise to be just that... and then it wasn't. Okay, it was Bollywood-ish, but where was the completely ridiculous sudden entrance of 200 whirling dancers, eh? Zesty Gourmand is even more annoying than Zephyr Breeze, the whole "Oh, the Map's repaired!" thing is silly and I don't care at all about bloody Gordon Ramsay, human or equine. On the plus side, the "Indian" characters, Saffron and Coriander, are both really good and I'd happily see them return. Rarity and Pinkie were up and down (especially Rarity), but they ended up working quite well together -- especially when they weren't together. So, we round off S6A with yet another "well, that was pretty good" episode. ★★★

On the plus side, I like Flutter Brutter more every time I see it now, so that's being upped to four stars.