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To Change a Changeling | |
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Season №: | 7 |
Season episode №: | 17 |
Overall episode №: | 160 |
Original airdate: | September 2, 2017 |
Written by: | Kevin Lappin |
Storyboard: | Megan Willis and Jen Davreux |
Featured characters: | Starlight Glimmer Trixie Thorax Pharynx |
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To Change a Changeling is the seventeenth episode of season seven of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic and the one hundred and sixtieth overall.
In this episode, Starlight Glimmer and Trixie try to get Thorax's brother Pharynx to accept the changelings' new way of sharing love.
Production
This episode was previously scheduled to premiere on Canada's Treehouse TV channel on June 18, 2017,[1] but was later replaced by a repeat of Hard to Say Anything.
Summary
Surprise visit to the hive
The episode begins with Starlight Glimmer and Trixie teleporting to the Changeling Kingdom to pay a surprise visit to Thorax and the changelings. In his letters to Starlight, Thorax has written that not only is he dealing with the responsibilities of being a leader but also the threat of a half-bear, half-mole creature called a malworf that keeps eating the changelings' plants. Trixie, however, is skeptical about the existence of such a creature.
Just then, an unreformed changeling appears before Starlight and Trixie, hissing menacingly at them. Starlight tries to fend off the attacking changeling with her magic, and Trixie tries to teleport them away, but the changeling quickly captures them. He takes them before Thorax, believing them to be trespassers, but Thorax says they are friends and to let them go. He apologizes to Starlight and Trixie for the rude welcome, explaining that the unreformed changeling is his older brother Pharynx.
Thorax says he has taken Princess Ember's advice to be more assertive and dealt with most of the renegade changelings, but Pharynx is the only one who still refuses to adopt the hive's new way of sharing love. As a result, all of the other changelings avoid him.
The new Changeling Kingdom
Thorax gives Starlight and Trixie a tour of the new Changeling Kingdom. Having abandoned their previous routines of hunting and patrolling, the changelings have adopted a variety of new activities including theater, dancing, arts and crafts, and the occasional potluck. Unfortunately, Pharynx constantly undermines these new ways, upsetting the rest of the changelings. Thorax fears if he can't convince Pharynx to accept love and friendship, it will cause the hive to question his leadership.
While Thorax and his subjects leave to lure the malworf away from the kingdom, Trixie and Starlight offer to talk with Pharynx. The ponies approach the rebellious changeling and try to connect with him, having their own experiences with being outsiders among their own kind. However, despite their lives being richer for letting go of the past, Pharynx considers them both losers and tells them to stay away from him.
When Thorax returns, he shows Starlight and Trixie to the changelings' "feelings forum", where members of the hive come together to talk about their issues in a welcoming and open-minded environment. While the participants in the forum feel good talking about their problems, they are also very open about their grievances toward Pharynx. Pharynx enters to find his fellow changelings talking behind his back and voices his own outrage about the hive's weak and cowardly new ways. When Pharynx leaves, the rest of the changelings demand that he be banished from the Changeling Kingdom.
References
- ↑ My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic : To Change a Changeling. Screener. Retrieved on 2017 May 17.
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