This episode plays with the mind of the viewer, disguising itself with a conflict that falls into an average territory in order to hide another one that Brian Holfield and the storyboard´s staff cannot display so openly in a little kids’ show. What this episode hides from the viewer but shows very subtly so kids cannot notice it is that:

The process of divorce

This is the haunting part that makes this episode so special in comparison with others. It plays with enough subtlety so the basic understanding of the episode doesn´t reach these conclusions so easily. It´s subtle enough in order to leave a few signals so you can tell that both Terramar´s parents: Sky Beak and Ocean Flow; they have been through a process of divorce. Yet they don´t seem to look like that (and they even appear together in season 9 with Uprooted), it doesn´t leave an apparent impression that they are actually divorced. So, why do they smile in the end when they get to see each other?

It turns out that this divorce comes from the fact that both of them have simply decided to live their own lifestyle in the different environments.

So, how can you tackle this concept in a show whose target audience is the little kids? Then, you start to wonder how Hasbro and DHX haven´t been sued and when one takes into account this factor of running risks that could cost a lot of complaints and possible lawsuits that could cause controversy, this episode has managed to pass as a normal one...because all the main ingredients overshadow this concept.

That is to say, everything that you are going to see in this episode are just excuses in order to put the divorce problem as an obscure theme that isn´t noticeable with a very casual eye. This is because everything shown serves as a filter where it can easily go unnoticed but at the same time, anyone has enough elements and little details to detect that said situation has occurred.


If you want to analyse the divorce, the viewer has to put a lot of effort on focusing on the details, matching the little pieces of the puzzle delivered throughout the entire episode. The episode DEMANDS that if you want to associate this episode with the divorce, one has to nitpick, not as a mentality, but because for analysing this episode with this approach, one must stay watchful as a requirement.

The episode might seemingly lines of filler such as the "research" or "business" words that come from Twilight (the signatures from the parents and the conversations that Twilight has had with both Sky Beak and Ocean Flow behind the scenes) or when Terramar and Twilight present the lore behind the hippogriffs and seaponies, when that innocent backstory also explains precisely the whole root of said divorce.