Izzy struggles to figure out what to craft for a birthday present for Sunny (leaving Hitch and Zipp to frequently clean up after her), but soon stumbles across a bracelet that Sunny decides to wear in her mane. Later, when Izzy meets Pipp at the craft fair in town, Pipp shares online about the gift Izzy made for Sunny and very quickly many other ponies want one as well, which almost immediately overwhelms Izzy. With Izzy struggling with her creativity, Pipp advises "make it the same, but better" and "listen to your fans", but as Pipp struggles to come up with a new song, Izzy's suggestion of following her own advice makes her realize how terrible that advice was. When Izzy next goes to Sunny for help, Sunny suggests "go back to your roots", which Izzy interprets are returning to her old home in Bridlewood. However, along the way, Izzy stumbles across an old moped scooter abandoned on the side of the road, so she decides to take it back to Maretime Bay and fixes it up, allowing her to conveniently solve the clutter issue she had been causing for her friends. Meanwhile, a blue unicorn named Misty sneaks into town and leaves behind some kind of compact mirror for Sunny, which will allow the evil alicorn in a distant dark castle to spy on Sunny and her friends, though apparently not when they're within the Crystal Brighthouse.
Well, there sure was quite a lot going on right in the very first episode. I really liked how this episode almost immediately begins asking the kinds of questions I'm sure many fans have been asking for a while, such as why the cutie marks always seems to glow whenever ponies do something that makes them very happy. I also liked that little detail of those glasses Izzy briefly wore in A new Generation are in fact her "crafting glasses", so we'll likely be seeing them again throughout the series. In addition, it's nice to see where Izzy got her moped scooter from (though now that I think about it, it does seem to cause a continuity conflict between this episode, the Tell Your Tale episode about dumpster diving, and the original Make Your Mark special). Also, despite being completely absent in Tell Your Tale (at least as far as we've seen for now), it's good to see that the baby dragon is still around, and that it was Hitch who had decided to name him Sparky Sparkaroni. And finally, we're starting to get a few clues about the evil alicorn Opaline, her unicorn assistant Misty (who apparently lacks a cutie mark), and some hints on what really happened to all the magic in Equestria. Overall, a nice start to the series.