Ok ok, Max’s Enemy isn’t exactly my favorite S1 episode, but it’s actually not that bad. Like, yeah, simple plot. Max is jealous of horse, horse is evil, evil horse is arrested. However, after rewatching it, I gotta give it some credit. It made me chuckle a few times, it had pretty good action at the end, a decent moral (even if it is kinda confusing) and consider this: a lot of the episode is all visual. Yeah yeah, there’s dialogue from the characters, especially from Rapunzel. Still, it was actually really interesting to see how emotions and motivations were conveyed mostly all through the animation and the sounds of the horses. (And I mean, A LOT of horse sounds.) Of course, it’s simple storytelling, but I felt this episode really utilized the medium of animation and used it how it should be used. In fact, I’d say just by watching this on mute, you can tell what is going on. I’m not saying this is the beginning of “Up” or anything, but after so much time of putting this episode down ‘cause it’s “dumb” or “pointless,” I think we ought to give it more credit.
Nothing special, but I feel as though visual storytelling should be given more credit, and this episode really used it to its advantage. Good job crew! (Also horses are incredibly difficult to draw and animate, so that also shouldn’t go unappreciated.)