@Eragor14
That is her way of showing kindness. Kindness can be shown in many different ways. Sometimes risking your own life to save the other’s is kindness. I’m super proud of Fluttershy for taking actions and working up the courage to save a dear friend’s life. I’m also so glad Fluttershy is more than just the passive “being gentle and kind to everything on Earth” but that she is also “going on an adventure because she cares for others.” There are more than one aspect to her that make me love her more and more. Fluttershy is the best!

@Just Wayne
Even as much as I love Fluttershy, I never thought of her that way. I always saw her as a pony who always tried to exhibit kindness to everyone, even if they aren’t kind to her in return. It’s something that I want to emulate in myself.

Either way, regardless of what aspect of Fluttershy you like the most, she is still a great character.

@Eragor14
But in that episode Fluttershy was a devoted hero. She cared a lot about Zecora, so much so she’d tire herself out to save her. Every time Fluttershy is in an episode, she is always the best of herself, even if she has to sacrifice her own health or safety. That’s why she’s the best. <3

@Just Wayne
I never liked that swamp fever episode myself. It always left me heartbroken seeing Fluttershy like that.

@Background Pony Number 17
I didn’t know she caught swamp fever right there already. I thought she was only tired. Poor Fluttershy. :(

This was a tip-off that Fluttershy was coming down with swamp fever. She wasn’t showing symptoms yet, but she was exhausted from overwork and starting to lose focus.

@Background Pony #C995
For some people it can be fun to think about. Sure, it doesn’t matter much to the stories of either FiM or the G5 shows, but for some people (including myself) imagining how events in Equestria came about can be quite fun.

@Eragor14
There is an easy answer:
“What does it matter” and “who cares”?

There are actually several shows that have remarkable animation like that. Batman: the Animated Series, both Tiny Toons Adventures and Animaniacs, the X-Men and Spider-Man TV shows, later shows like Gravity Falls and Phineas and Ferb, all had remarkable animation like this that stands the test of time very well, better than many more recent animated projects. I think part of the reason why it ends up looking better is because it simply is a lot easier to animate 2D characters doing more complex things than it is to animate 3D characters doing the exact same tasks. Not to say that it is impossibe-Pixar movies tend to do this quite well-but it generally takes a lot more time and costs a lot more to accomplish this sort of feat in 3D than it is in 2D. Frankly, I think this is a reason why I prefer the animation of the Tell your Tale series to what we had seen in the Make your Mark special. It’s also why Friendship is Magic looked as good as it did-I highly doubt that the series would have looked as good if it were rendered using CG from that time period.

if want to find the logic about why the doors have a knob, just have to conclude that the ponies that do not have magic, can make the knob work as simple as putting the hoove on it.

Moving on to another point, I will always love how well cared for the animation on this show was.

I mean, not only because Fluttershy hits the door (which is a product of her worry since she can’t focus on other things than helping Zecora) but also because she goes up and down two steps while in a daze, while Twilight shows concern, raises a hoof and opens the door with his magic.
What I want to get is that in almost any other series all this was simplified or this scene did not exist making a cut to the next

@Fair Use (Optimisitc Neighsayer)
If that ends up being the case, that the unicorns tried to keep down other races, then the fact that the other races revolted (which led to the loss of magic in G5) ends up making a lot of sense-the unicorns saw themselves as being superior to every other species (see Filthy Rich) and the other races ended up resenting that. Push came to shove, and war ended up breaking out in Equestria, with the unicorns being forced out into the forest.

Honestly, I wish they could make a comic series showcasing this. The story of the Fall of Equestria could be a very entertaining read.

@Eragor14
The show unfortunately hasn’t been the best at actually taking a horse society to its logical conclusions. Sometimes the stuff is ergonomic (see the typewriters in “Ponyville Confidential”) and others, well you get this.

Who knows, perhaps all the “human” like objects were actually designed by the unicorns to keep down the other races. :-/

@ABronyAccount
Hmm..I actually like that idea a lot.

@Eragor14
There was a fan comic exploring that idea early in the fandom, with Lyra coming to the conclusion that
Equestria is a post-apocalyptic Earth and they “inherited a world we didn’t make.“
The artist pulled all their pony stuff offline, though.

@ABronyAccount
This actually brings up another question: why do pony doors have knobs in the first place? I know unicorns can use magic in place of hands, as shown by Twilight opening the door here, but not all ponies have that (in fact, most ponies don’t have that ability). Considering hooves are terrible for grasping objects, I would think that houses in Ponyville would have different ways to open a door (such as using a sliding lock) that is better suited for Earth pony usage.

@Background Pony #178F
Didn’t work the knob first.

Poor baby, I wanted to snuggle so much in this episode. :(

I don’t understand this scene. Why Fluttershy couldn’t open the door with her head?