Wow I loved the parent map. Probably my favorite episode of the season so far. I liked it mainly for the town. It felt like its own little corner of Equestria. This place truly felt isolated to me for some reason, considering how interconnected things have gotten in the later seasons (It took us at least a day and night by train to get ta Appleloosa, but now we can ride on a hot air balloon just standing all the way to Las Pegasus farther down on the map!). There was just this /confy/ vibe from it that I really loved. Also the Dad really works for Dolores' bridge building backstory doesn't it? The fact that Stellar Flare is such a capitalist and that Firelight is such a traditionalist being only a minor deal in the background just cracked me up. It wasn't old vs new or capitalism vs the little guy like so many would have made it. I can't think of much of a complaint other then that the Cutie Map felt just arbitrarily thrown in there to serve the plot again. I feel like this though could be more in service to the cutie map itself, trying to keep it relevant amist all the other things they have to jungle around now. I mean, their trying to keep it around with both all the crap of season 7 final, season 8 premier, the movie, and various other plotlines from over the years. Honestly something is going to have to give or get sidelined at this point.
Also I wonder what happened to Dolores' Mother and Sunburst's father, I doubt will have it answered, but it is something that I will ponder away.
