Talk:The Parent Map/@comment-4531340-20180506112318

I appreciate the fact that the conflict of old vs. new, preservation vs. development was actually just a gigantic red herring - I honestly didn't even see the whole parental angle until right around when Firelight and Stellar Flare started trying to help out Starlight and Sunburst (respectively) with the friendship problem, and I wasn't sure of it until that meeting in the antiquities section of the bookstore (at least, I think).

I can see the similarities to Parental Glidance, but I feel this one is better in that it doesn't try to paint Firelight and Stellar Flare as being totally right in their over doting-ness/pushiness and Starlight and Sunburst as totally wrong for calling them out on it (even if it is done in a very blunt, maybe slightly rude way). I mean, I just experienced a thing today where I had to be kind of bluntly honest with my mother about something (though I should note, I didn't do it in a rude way, or with a desire to be rude - and while she was upset about it at first, she took some time to think it over and realized I had a point, and that it was something worth discussing further), so I could totally empathize with Starlight and (especially) Sunburst in the resolution.

I made a comment when watching the episode (specifically, during the ending scene), which I could see as a back-and-forth between Sunburst and Starlight, with Sunburst saying, "Our parents are crazy," and Starlight replying, "Certainly explains a lot about us."

Overall, not quite as good as the past couple week's episodes, but still above episodes 3-5, I'd say.