Reminder that Flight to the Finish is easily the most well written

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Reminder that Flight to the Finish is easily the most well written episode in the show.

MLP managed to tackle several adult issues with this episode. Sure there is the obvious Scootaloo's disability issue, but there is also the more subtle issue regarding diversity. The point of the episode was to show that the CMCs differences were what made them strong and that they should accept themselves regardless of what any one else tells them (as seen with how Scootaloo trying to be someone else affected their performance).

The CMC ultimately won because they embraced their differences and used them to their advantage. The real strength of this is the fact that this episode handles the issue of embracing diversity in an extremely subtle manner, instead of being a lazy message for diversity which just haphazardly places diverse people together, this episode takes characters who happen to be different from each other in order to show us why diversity is good.

The fact that this episode was so mature and the messages are subtly and well executed makes it all the more confusing as to why Ed Valentine would go on to write Carts Before the Ponies, an episode that does exactly the opposite of this.