YMMV / My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic S6 E21 "Every Little Thing She Does"

• Accidental Aesop: Evidentally, Starlight shows that a lot of people are too anxious to do something as simple as baking a freaking cake.
• Alternative Character Interpretation: Starlight's nervousness around groups of people she doesn't know that well and her coping mechanism of falling back on the one thing she feels completely comfortable doing could be read as her being an introvert that presents as extroverted to get by. If she is an introverted personality at heart, it paints most of her previous episodes in quite a different light.
• Broken Base:
  • The idea of Starlight using mind control magic on the Mane 5. Some people feel that they can understand her doing this due to her problems with making friends with others and are willing to let it go for the fun stuff that results and the fact that Starlight isn't being malicious about it, and they like that the others were actually openly angry with her and she had to WORK to get them to forgive her. To others THIS isn't considered funny especially given her villainous past and the long duration of the spell; along with that, even after Twilight undid the magic spell, Starlight doesn't see anything wrong with what she did until Twilight told her otherwise only adds more hate fuel to somepony who was a Base-Breaking Character even before this episode aired. A third camp likes it for showing a bit of Starlight's pre-Heel–Face Turn personality, which they felt was lacking, and showing she didn't do a complete 180 and has parts of her old self she still needs to overcome.
  • Starlight being shown to be very good at complex magic at the beginning and during the episode was treated by some people as, first, a good setup for her knowing how to combine several spells to achieve the effects of Mind Control later on and, second, a good way to show her confidence/reliance on her magic to solve her problems in contrast to her poor social skills. For others, however, Starlight continuing to be able to pull increasingly more powerful spells that were previously considered impossible to do normally ^note such as the duplication spell from "The Magic Duel", although her composite spell was closer to Doppelgänger Spin than a true duplicate since it involves super speed, which are otherwise considered very powerful for the setting or which mimic other ponies (even in-universe fictional superheroes') special talents is making these ponies' abilities and uniqueness seem redundant ^note such as doing things cartoonishly fast being a typical Pinkie thing while making her own arsenal of abilities seem even more special and absurdly powerful for seemingly no particular reason and that social anxiety isn't big enough of a character flaw to balance it all out.
• Fanfic Fuel: Apparently every single Shout-Out Applejack does is from an actual thing that happened somewhere in the Apple family.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Someone predicted back in January 11, 2016, that Fluttershy can communicate with the insect kingdom.
• Tainted by the Preview: Before the episode even aired, the idea of Starlight using Mind Control magic on the Mane 5 caused quite a few fans to worry that she would undo her Rescued from the Scrappy Heap status as of "The Crystalling" and go back to being Unintentionally Unsympathetic like in "The Cutie Re-Mark." There were also fears that this episode, like many others in Season 6, would be yet another re-hash of a previous episode, this one being "Lesson Zero".