>>12658
Well, life has been long and a bit complicated for me, but I am finally here and ready to do a start to this season! Part of what took so long is that I had somewhat elaborate plans for this review, I wanted it to be something long and somewhat high effort. I have partly succeeded. Though I can say with my aforementioned difficulties I am probably going to be more relaxed about things this season compared to last. Anyways, without further ado, onto Season 2!

The Return of Harmony
Confusion
Evil
Chaos!
Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo, respectively, attempting to describe discord, and unknowingly, Discord.

The episode start, that quote was the first thing that stuck out to me, how chaos was something that was an attribute of Discord, rather than the defining one. Don't get me wrong, Discord did represent chaos and that was a major part of his character, but it was much more than that. He was evil and the opposite of harmony and the ponies morality and society.

The opening segment itself was okay. I liked the CMC having a little cameo (though it would have perhaps been nice to see them reacting to this later) and possibly being the reason Discord was released at that moment. The segment wasn't my favorite though, my feelings for it are just average, it lacks something... but I don't have the words right now. This is just me speaking wax poetic (or rather, a lack of wax poetic) on what is a very minor aspect of the episode.

Now, we get to the Mane 6 and their reactions to the chaos that is now just starting to spread. Something that I now appreciate after watching this twice is the partial set up for some of the conflicts we see later. Rainbow Dash saying that she would help them out first before Cloudsdale and Spike suggesting they give up only for Twilight to press on and organize the group.