Talk:Bridle Gossip/@comment-11634302-20160520060334/@comment-24245960-20160520140720

I've just watched this episode again, and it seemed obvious to me that everypony (except the foolhardy young Apple Bloom) was totally afraid to go into the Everfree Forest. The same fear could be seen in the second part of the series premiere. It should also be noted that, at this point in the series, Twilight is still a newcomer to Ponyville and thus does not know the surroundings very well. She'd probably only ever seen the forest on a map in the Canterlot Library. And as has been said, Twilight had never read the book in question because she had, as Zecora so aptly pointed out, judged the book by its cover, thus dismissing it as useless misinformation.