My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic - 1x07 - Dragonshy

    There's a long trail of smoke from a mountain, working over parts of Ponyville.  Twilight Sparkle has found that the problem is that a dragon is sleeping in a cave on the mountain, and the snoring produces a lot of smoke.  The ponies are charged with the task to talk to the dragon, and persuade him to sleep elsewhere.  While most of the team is up to the task, Fluttershy is too scare of dragons to make the trip comfortably.
    Fluttershy is so completely charming that it's hard to make an episode based around her bad.  This is an early episode, so it set up her character well.  After seeing later episodes dealing with her, this one seems a little out of place.  She actually seems too scared.  I think her reluctance to approach the dragon is fine, but her fear of climbing the mountain doesn't seem entirely right.  It's a bit of a device to give the episode some tension for the first half.
    The big highlight is seeing Pinkie's bizarre outfit.
    Fluttershy gets to take charge at a certain point, and it's cathartic to see.  She plays it as an assertive, motherly figure.  As a result, it sounds a little too on-the-nose for my tastes, a little too prepared.  But it still feels good.