agreed, it should have been done way better. Yet time and time again, it just seems that most writers can't help but screw up a shipping episode. Very few can do it right. And even then, even fewer can do the relationship justice afterwards. Often resulting in it never really getting brought back up in any major terms or if it does, just being a major cringe fest. in the end, I don't have high hopes for this relationship, especially since no romance in this serious has ever really gotten major observable development. Like Shining Armor and Princess Cadance, the most prominent couple in my opinion. pretty much every development that has happened with them has been done in off-screen land. Too where anytime we do see them together on a screen, its always during a major crisis or something similar, thus no real emphasis is put on just them as a couple. Thus for me, I see episodes like this as being meaningless and infuriating, whats the point of setting up a ship when your just going to leave it abandoned and forgotten at the harbor.