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The thing I disliked the most in this episodes is the fact that about a third (or more) of the episode was just singing! It was like if the writers had no clue what to do, so they just made some songs to fill up empty space.

That's exactly what I've been saying. People who liked the episode say "the story was great, it was just rushed, that's all." To me it was just a whole lot of nothing, happening quickly.

 

Let's not argue too much about it, though. Remember we'll still be here when Season 4 starts. We all have to get along, at least until then. :lol:

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So...... we finally got the last episode of S3...........holy Celestial Twilight Moon! (yes, that's my new phrase, sue me ^_^ ). That was just a marvelous episode! Definitely my favorite of the whole season, and one of my top episodes of the whole show! :D Marvelous job M.A.Larson. Marvelous, wondrous, fantastic job! :mellow:

 

So, when I first saw the episode, I was around some of the bronies here in Argentina because we had made a get together to watch the episode in HD for those who hadn't managed to watch it live, one of them was me. I gotta admit, even though there was a lot of noise around, I was actually able to inmerse myself completely in the episode, which made it even more enjoyable. So, let's see what this episode left in my mind!

 

First let me talk about the beginning. I had read in a status update somewhere before I saw the episode that the beginning had been taken straight out of the Beauty and the Beast. And I could not agree more because I remember that movie, and Twilight became Belle in her way of singing all happy and stuff. If this WAS actually similar to it in purpose, then it's ANOTHER plus to Daniel Ingram. Seriously.

 

I enjoyed ALL of the songs of Daniel Ingram and Steffan Andrews, Will Anderson of course didn't fall behind with his BGM music (AND CELESTIA SANG HOLY HER IT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL! :D ). And if that wasn't enough, the animation was MARVELOUS. And in fact, aside from the fact it was all flowing so smoothly, and had a lot of awesome tricks like the memory call back to all the ponies and the lasers that came out of the EoH and most importantly the friggin SPACE LIKE PLACE, I found another type of animation that I hadn't seen that well in a good while. What am I talking about? None other than Twilight's slow-mo motion when finishing to write the magic. What did it remind me to? Dexter's Laboratory. I think I really saw it on my second view of the episode, but it was nice getting another nostalgia attack nonetheless. So, honestly to me, DHX friggin kicked flank.

 

Another thing I'm starting to realize is, that most of M.A Larson's episodes have references to past episodes, just like Magic Duel did for example, and I'm sure others before it did as well. This goes to show me how Larson makes full use of the show's history to make his episodes as well. Considering there were at least 3 references or call backs to past episodes in this episode alone, this was rather interesting.

 

Another thing I realized, especially during True, True Friend is how Ponyville DOES act like a small village where everypony knows everypony. This came more to realization when Pinkie came up. Here's why. Pinkie is obviously known as the local party planner of Ponyville, aside from working in Sugarcube corner. So, with all of her parties, literally everypony would have managed to know other ponies thanks to her. Plus that to the fact Pinkie is also a local prankster, the pony who always has a smile on her face AND is known for ALWAYS bringing the same thing to others................................well... seeing how happy was were the ponyvillians to see her again, was truly wonderful, and goes to show how much of an impact she has left in the small town.  :)

 

Now, as for how Twilight was quick to both fall from her fault, and rise to help out, it seems to me that-... wait a moment... I'm just wondering, if Spike hadn't been around, what would have Twilight done? Would she have snapped from her sad moment anyway... or would she have kept on guilt tripping? This is something interesting to think of IMO. Besides, this is not the first time that Spike has to play the role of snapping Twilight out of a "trance" that was NOT going to be good for her, so I felt actually rather well with that moment altogether.

 

Then comes how quickly Carousel Boutique and Sweet Apple Acres fell in disgrace... now... Carousel Boutique depends much on word of voice. So should this same thing failed to happen or brought bad reviews and comments, it definitely go awry. And as for Sweet Apple Acres, I have the slight feeling that Pinkie broke the balance that maintained the farm. Considering that the Apple family had left when AJ had probably disappeared from her doings, the farm would also go awry really fast. Now, even if it WASN'T like this, it goes to show on what would have happened, and it is, like someone else said, a rather artistic way of showing how each pony not doing their jobs can bring some very awful things. 

 

The thing about the destinies of each pony representing their cutie marks. Now everypony with their cutie marks had followed exactly what their talents represented, and therefore, followed what their cutie mark implied. So I'm guessing that changing a cutie mark like Starswirl's spell did, would technically change their personalities slightly because the situation would go a bit like this, that is, supposing they had all the memories of doing something completely different, which wasn't the case this time:

 

"Wow... what happened... is everything oka-........... I don't remember this cutie mark! What the...? Why do I...? But I remember doing something else... but..." And then go on wondering why in the world would the pony have a different cutie mark that represented something different from what was done, and this might lead to investigating on how to fix it. But, there's also the fact that changing a cutie mark somehow changes WHERE did they get their cutie mark, and therefore, change their memories slightly to follow that timeline. I believe this to be a good reason for the whole change of personality as well.

 

Now, I wanna say that pretty much EVERYTHING that was in the episode had a meaning. Even the explosion where Twilight "died". I don't know if many had caught this, but the scorch mark that the explosion left in the house did have a meaning in itself, and was how I knew Twilight had actually been transported. For those that didn't caught it, the scorch mark had the form of Twilight's cutie mark. That right there is foreshadowing that something big was going to happen to Twilight.

 

Now, let's get to the big subject that had paralyzed 3/4 of the brony world around.

 

Twilight Sparkle turning into an alicorn.

 

So, Hasbro or no Hasbro, why would Celestia want to turn Twilight in an alicorn? Why so fast? And I think the key lies in all the tests that Celestia had prepared for Twilight along the show's story.

 

It is clear after this that Friendship is DEFINITELY Magic. The title of the show now not only rings as something good for kids to learn, but now has an actual meaning. I know, this isn't a reason at all, but regardless, it is something important to notice. However, the moment I think Celestia might have thought of Twilight to becoming an alicorn............... was right on the entry exam of the little filly, back when she almost made a magic nova. Celestia probably at first thought nothing of it, and rather saw a filly who a TREMENDOUS amount of potential. However, as Celestia grew on her role as teacher for the little filly... something might have snapped.

 

Now, in theory, a teacher has a role of helping his/her students to reach their maximun potential. What if this is what Celestia thought? Of course, she couldn't just go and say "Hello, now you're an alicorn" and BOOM hello taller size and extra flying-capable limbs. No... I think... this might have been a reason on why Celestia had been testing Twilight all along.

 

The first test on to see in whether or not Twilight would aqcuire the potential she might have suspected was right in the night where The Mare in the Moon, AKA Nightmare Moon came back, and if Twilight would trust the ponies she met in Ponyville. Considering how the whole thing allowed Celestia to recover her sister, she could not have been more in debt to her faithful student, especially if she had been watching through some sort of magical crystal ball or whatnot since the beginning.

 

Then came the other tests. Against Discord. Against Sombra. And now... against Starswirl, you could say. The first let her learn that friendship will have its ups and downs, always. The second let her learn how sometimes, she would have to rely on her friends to help  and do what she couldn't (which is different from letting her friends help her, lesson in the first episodes). And finally, the last one, made her learn that Friendship IS really a way of magic. Which casually, is more or less what her cutie mark represents. Also, like someone else said, solving Starswirl's last spell is probably the equivalent of solving a really old math problem, like Fermat's. And for those that don't know if her writing new magic is a means to becoming an alicorn, remember that it seems that Twilight has just as much potential for knowledge and magic as Starswirl himself. It wouldn't be too hard to imagine that the roles could have been inverted, and instead of Starswirl writing the new spells, it had been Twilight. Or at least it isn't for me.

 

Now, let's couple this with the fact that Celestia had been preparing the book of Starswirl since episode 1 in S3, which was the biggest bout of foreshasowing that we could have ever got. And, coupled with all the lessons Twilight herself learn that could have gone for something else, biggest examples would probably Lesson Zero (which was more or less dealing against HERSELF), and Magic Duel (which was dealing against somepony more powerful than her). All of this would imply that something big would happen to our dear adorkable purple unicorn. And this was it.

 

Now, I want to address a different pony. Starswirl the Bearded. Now, I'm getting the slight feel that Celestia, while teaching Twilight, was realizing just how much her student was looking like Starswirl. And with this... this might have scared her. Why? Because if Starswirl had failed to complete his masterpiece because of lacking an understanding of friendship............. I have the slight feeling that this might mean that Starswirl was lonely... without friends...driven by the thought of wanting to learn more... and disregarding the subject of friendship as something with not much meaning and that only helped interrupt his studies. I have the slight feeling that Twilight was going through the same way. And this is another reason why Celestia sent Twilight to Ponyville. Because while she was her teacher, she was also the best friend Twilight had ever had before Ponyville (and not counting Ms. Smartypants of course ^_^ ). She might have thought that Twilight was going through the same path as Starswirl. So not only she sent her student as a teacher... but she also sent it as her friend. Which in my head, sounds like something beautiful to do.

 

And here I call upon all of the Rainbow Dash fans of the fandom. Because if what I said was true...then Rainbow Dash, helping Twilight gain her cutie mark, causing the filly to make the gigangic magic nova and which caused Celestia to garner Twilight as her student, could also be held as being indirectly responsible for Twilight becoming an alicorn.

 

Just think about that. ;)

 

Of course, this is all just speculation. I could be completely wrong. But hey, this whole episode gave me stuff to think. :D

 

And then there's the fact of how Twilight becoming an alicorn could affect her relationship with her friends. I know for one that Rainbow gaining a new flying buddy, and Pinkie having a reason to make a party don't mind at all. :lol: However, let's look at it the other way. Suppose her friends DO start treating Twilight different for being a Princess now. Wouldn't this give the writers a potential episode about Twilight wanting her friends NOT to treat her differently? Especially with how much Twilight appreciates her friends? I think this could easily happen in S4, and I wouldn't mind seeing it at all. And besides, her friends love Twilight a lot. Conflict because of not knowing how to treat a princess who happens to be your close friend... might or might not be more potential writing episodes. ONe would think of her friends possibly taking advantage of Twilight's new position and wings, but not only that seems WAY unlikely, we already had a episode with a similar plot, which was "The Ticket Master".

 

Then, we can treat it for the other way, which is the responsabilities of Twilight as a princess interrupting her friendship with the the rest of the mane 6. I don't need to say that this is easily the reason Twilight might step down from being an alicorn. But even then, there are other posibilities, like her friends actually HELPING Twilight through her ordeals as a princess. So I'm, again, not bothered in the slightest by this.

 

Next, another thing about Starswirl. Why exactly would he make a cutie mark/destiny changing spell? I can only think of two reasons:

 

1. He did it for the sole purpose of researching, and I actually see him doing this just to test if it was possible to change cutie marks between other ponies.

2. Someone might have been in help or distraught about their cutie marks, and Starswirl might have been concerned enough to try and figure out a spell to save them or something different. This is something I don't see as much probable though...

 

I can't exactly tell if there's a certain reason, but for all purposes, I'm going to go and guess that Starswirl just wanted to test magic the same way he did as for whenever he wrote new magic, but I'm not sure at all.

 

So... another thing that brings curiosity. What exactly is that space-y place where Celestia and Twilight were? Is it a certain place that all ponies who will turn into alicorns go? Was Twilight supposed to go there and, like someone else around here said, Celestia just came so that her student wouldn't be all alone and all "What the hay?!"?I don't really have an answer for this. It is obviously a place that can obviously only be accessed through a certain channeled power. I'm gonna go and guess that the Elements of Harmony, which by the way were used by Luna and Celestia, have something to do with this. Problem is, that still leaves Cadence's alicornhood in question. But then again, Cadence looks like she was born from the cross of a crystal pony... and a normal pony, which COULD have been an alicorn. There is a reason after all why she's Celestia's niece... but the question around our Crystal Princess goes on... 

 

And finally, one more thing that I'd like to point out, is how well did the writers chose would do the "new" task for each pony when the cutie mark change happened. This is of course, taking out the ponies with their "correct" jobs, like Rainbow Dash being the onw who controls weather, etc and taking out Twilight Sparkle.

 

Rarity was the one handling the weather. The only other one who could have done this is Fluttershy. But she is neither that fast nor would want to have anything to do with dem clouds. So Rarity who has magic could handle it, could be fast enough, and do it well... had it not been for the fact she just wanted to create "cloud art" (I swear, if I see a brony taking a photo of an "art-y" cloud, I'm gonna call it a day in life and die :P ).

 

Rainbow Dash was the one handling the animals..........technically she was the only one who could do this because she's the only other pegasus. Handling animals unnaturally with magic (let's count that Twilight was doing the whole Magic Duel thing with permission of Fluttershy AND the animals, so to speak) doesn't seem really likely, so it RD was the one who was called in.

 

Applejack was the one handling the dresses part. Fluttershy wouldn't make sense because she can actually sew. Pinkie Pie wouldn't make that much sense either because she at least knows how to handle things with care, so to speak. And while in subtlety with hooves both AJ and RD would be considered the same level, it makes more sense that AJ be the one as at least HAD done something arts-y, like cooking (no offense to Rainbow Dash, but her Sonic Rainboom doesn't really count, but I welcome anyone to remind of whatever I might have forgotten when RD might have done something arts-y).

 

Pinkie Pie was the one handling the farm. Now in here, Rarity would not work at a farm at all Fluttershy doesn't have enough strength to buck trees IMO. Rainbow Dash could probably take all the apples herself by flying fast as all hell. But Pinkie was the one who had technically worked in a farm before (maybe not an apple farm but a farm nonetheless), and she's also an earth pony, ergo, keeping her to do all the apple working, earth pony style.

 

And then Fluttershy was handling making the townsponies laugh. Rarity doesn't seen to be the one to want to make others laugh as Pinkie would do, Rainbow Dash as a prankster would obviously go awry as somepony might get hurt, and Applejack would have the.. erm... let's call not subtlety enough to do Pinkie's job, plus the fact Fluttershy would be the one to try and make others feel good and laugh out of all 4 left, but I could be wrong.

 

This is, again, even more especulation, but once more, this episode made me think a friggin lot. :mellow:

 

I think that's all. I honestly thoroughly enjoyed the episode, and I'm one of the few who didn't feel the episode was rushed (but I don't think I'm the best to actually notice this because I really don't tell if something was rushed or not.). For those who did feel it like that, a second watch MIGHT give you a different opinion, but then again it might not.

 

But seriously though, for those going overly commando and overanalyzing, don't let it ruin your enjoyment of the episode. Do I mean that if you overanalyze you instantly dislike it? Hell no! What I'm saying is that it might distract you. If you don't like an episode because there was simply something that totally made you disconnected from the episode and made you dislike it, then that's it, you don't like it, end of discussion. Nobody should try and change that because tastes is something that shouldn't be forced to change in this type of cases. But I want is that overanalyzing the episode should be left for a second watching of the episode, if you want to do so, that is. First watch and see if you enjoyed the episode, and then watch it again if you wanna analyze stuff. Kind of like playing a game. First enjoy the story or different, then you should try doing everything else in a second try if you like it enough and wanna do extra stuff.

 

Anyway.... this is the end of Season 3, and we don't know how much will we really have to wait for it. But I can honestly say, that I'm waiting for it as much as I can. But there's also something else, and it is related to Twilight as an alicorn. Meghan McCarthy has already stated, that the episode is in fact the first of three parts, according to her, and the that the next two parts will be in S4. But this left me wondering........ Meghan is a brilliant writer. And so is the rest of DHX. I don't know about you but......... the whole "Everything's going to be fine"....... I can't help but think that something bad will happen in the Season 4 premiere. I don't know what, but something. It could be a test to Twilight's new responsibilites and body, but I'm not sure. All I know is that the phrase "everything's going to be fine"... could be the biggest foreshadowing that something will happen in the next episode. What, we don't know. But it leaves me waiting for more... and I can't wait. :D

 

Finally, the last thing I wanna say something about is Hasbro. Did they gave the order of of making Twilight an alicorn? Probably yes. But as far as at least I can see, the alicorn thing could have more meaning than we might be intending to see. And this is why I trust ALL the writers from the show to make the alicorn part, which by the way gives them an interesting thing to deal with and a change in their way of dealing with the show, as nice and great as possible, without breaking the show. I haven't lost this faith, and I don't think I will. From the (apparently dreaded) different point-of-view Merriwether Williams, to the semi-comtroversial, joke liker Dave Polsky, to the newbie writer, CMC liker Corey Powell, to the animation user, also lyric writer M.A. Larson, to the lesson teacher Cindy Morrow, to the crazy pony liker Meghan McCarthy, to the might-be-participating and newbie Teddy Antonio, to the once and maybe returning (he left a while ago, I think) Chris Savino, and the returning Amy Keating Rogers. I have liked all their episodes, respect their skills, and trust them with this fantastic job. And this applies to the storyboarders, the animators, the VA's etc. All the crew. I trust them with the next season no matter what.

 

Finishing this gigantic post, I hope you all enjoyed this fantastic season, and until Season 4! :)

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Alrighty, let's get this reply started,

 

Now, when I first heard that the whole Twilicorn thing was cannon, I did not think too much about it, I mean think about it, there was enough overwhelming evidence that you could see it form a mile away, witch includes 

 

- Princess Celestia took Twilight under her wing

 

- Twilight is always solving monumental problems that Celestia is entrusting her with 

 

- Twilight has a metric buck ton of power that no other normal unicorn seems to have

 

- In the season 3 opening, Celestia mentions Twilight moving to the "next level"

 

- And to top it all off, multiple, multiple images of Twilicorn were leaked early on

 

So let's be realistic, this should come to no surprise for anyone. Now, of course how this will be executed is a whole other story, and the real questions is, was it executed properly?

 

....Eh, I mean I thought it was okay, but the episode was clearly rushed in terms of quickly the plot moved. I don't know who's bright decision it was to make it only a 1 part, though after I found out it was actually a 3 part thing, it does lift my spirits.

 

I am not going to write a 10K character post  about this episode, because I can sum up how I feel in one sentence.

 

I felt the episode was done the best it could be given the provisions that the writers and designers were under.

 

I don't know what's in store for season 4, but we can hope that Hasbro will return complete control to the writers, but who knows. 

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Well i wacthed the last episode, and i sadly have to say that is was WAY too rushed and had WAY too many songs, and the whole story to the alicorn thing? Man i know they could have done better, and i have to say right after wacthing that episode i had this whole idea in my head that would have made this whole alicorn thing actually work, and i have just had to say it! So here goes.

 

So this is what i think should have happened for this episode and story of her becoming en alicorn.

 

So we start the show off with princess celestia talking to luna about how it is time to give twilight the final test, and to see if she is ready to fulfil her destiny.

 

So then a book is then magically given to twilight in a letter, that starswirl book.

 

So then she goes through with the whole episode about the cutie marks, so then after she figures out everything and writes the spell down at the end, the book all of a sudden starts glowing and then teleports twilight to princess celestia in the castle.

 

That is where episode 1 should have ended.

 

So then episode 2. 

 

So twilight is in the castle she asks what happened and celestia is standing with luna and tells her that she has passed the test and she can now know the truth. Twilight asks what she is talking about so celestia then uses magic and an image appears, it shows a town with dark clouds rolling around and lightning, she sees her self as an infant but with wings in the arms of two alicorns she does not recognize, the two alicorns then tell a unicorn that she must be brought to princess celestia along with a scroll that will explain everything, then the two alicorns use magic to hide the wings of twilight and tell the unicorn that she must not know of her past unitil she is ready. Then the two alicorns fly towards a dark being and use a spell that turns the whole city to stone.

 

The image disapears and twilight is very confused. Celestia then explains that she is no ordinary unicorn in fact she is an alicorn daughter of the decendents of Starswirl the beard, and that she was to be princess of a land that was like claudsdale but instead was all about magic, She explains that a great evil had come to her land and threatened to destroy everything, so her parents had to send twilight away and stop the evil by turning the entire land to stone. Celestia then explains that Twilight was then brought before her and the letter as well, the letter contained the book in which a test was written out, twilight must not know of her past before she completes this test. So then celestia asks the parents of shining armor to take care of twilight and they agree and so she is brought up not knowing her past. Then celestia explains that she is now ready to return to her land and be ruler of the magic there and stop the evil that has been turned to stone. So then Celestia uses magic to give twilight her wings back and teleports her back to Ponyvile, and she tells her friends all about what princess celestia said. And then right before the end we go to the magic city which is stone and one of the statues breaks free and then smiles evily.

 

So then this would make for a great season 4 premire, i may just be blabing thoughts but tell me what you think?

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Honestly, I LIKED this episode. A lot. And, I don't think that Twilicorn will ruin the show, just drastically change it. Plus, who's to say that it wasn't a dream, or a result of The Professor's What If machine. :P I loved all the songs, MLP songs are usually REALLY good, the only two I didn't like were "You Gotta Share" and "Raise This Barn". The episode itself was amazing as well, great plot, even if most of the dialogue was singing. I hate it when people rage quit the fandom or scream and kick, just because of Twilight's wing gain. Or what I hate even more, is people who won't even WATCH the episode, because they're afraid. *cough* Rainbowlzoomi and poniesforfun *cough* Don't knock it before you try it, that's my number one rule, and that's how I became to be, practically, the least picky eater in the world. I didn't knock it before I tried it. If I hadn't followed that rule, I never would have tasted my absolute favorite food, eel, tempura shrimp, and avocado sushi, AKA Dragon Roll. Also, Twilicorn has something to say to all of her haters.

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Honestly, I LIKED this episode. A lot. And, I don't think that Twilicorn will ruin the show, just drastically change it. Plus, who's to say that it wasn't a dream, or a result of The Professor's What If machine. :P I loved all the songs, MLP songs are usually REALLY good, the only two I didn't like were "You Gotta Share" and "Raise This Barn". The episode itself was amazing as well, great plot, even if most of the dialogue was singing. I hate it when people rage quit the fandom or scream and kick, just because of Twilight's wing gain. Or what I hate even more, is people who won't even WATCH the episode, because they're afraid. *cough* Rainbowlzoomi and poniesforfun *cough* Don't knock it before you try it, that's my number one rule, and that's how I became to be, practically, the least picky eater in the world. I didn't knock it before I tried it. If I hadn't followed that rule, I never would have tasted my absolute favorite food, eel, tempura shrimp, and avocado sushi, AKA Dragon Roll. Also, Twilicorn has something to say to all of her haters.

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Lol so true, i liked the episode too, i am sust saying that i think they could have done better with the story and whole alicorn thing.

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Well i wacthed the last episode, and i sadly have to say that is was WAY too rushed and had WAY too many songs, and the whole story to the alicorn thing? Man i know they could have done better, and i have to say right after wacthing that episode i had this whole idea in my head that would have made this whole alicorn thing actually work, and i have just had to say it! So here goes.

 

So this is what i think should have happened for this episode and story of her becoming en alicorn.

 

So we start the show off with princess celestia talking to luna about how it is time to give twilight the final test, and to see if she is ready to fulfil her destiny.

 

So then a book is then magically given to twilight in a letter, that starswirl book.

 

So then she goes through with the whole episode about the cutie marks, so then after she figures out everything and writes the spell down at the end, the book all of a sudden starts glowing and then teleports twilight to princess celestia in the castle.

 

That is where episode 1 should have ended.

 

So then episode 2. 

 

So twilight is in the castle she asks what happened and celestia is standing with luna and tells her that she has passed the test and she can now know the truth. Twilight asks what she is talking about so celestia then uses magic and an image appears, it shows a town with dark clouds rolling around and lightning, she sees her self as an infant but with wings in the arms of two alicorns she does not recognize, the two alicorns then tell a unicorn that she must be brought to princess celestia along with a scroll that will explain everything, then the two alicorns use magic to hide the wings of twilight and tell the unicorn that she must not know of her past unitil she is ready. Then the two alicorns fly towards a dark being and use a spell that turns the whole city to stone.

 

The image disapears and twilight is very confused. Celestia then explains that she is no ordinary unicorn in fact she is an alicorn daughter of the decendents of Starswirl the beard, and that she was to be princess of a land that was like claudsdale but instead was all about magic, She explains that a great evil had come to her land and threatened to destroy everything, so her parents had to send twilight away and stop the evil by turning the entire land to stone. Celestia then explains that Twilight was then brought before her and the letter as well, the letter contained the book in which a test was written out, twilight must not know of her past before she completes this test. So then celestia asks the parents of shining armor to take care of twilight and they agree and so she is brought up not knowing her past. Then celestia explains that she is now ready to return to her land and be ruler of the magic there and stop the evil that has been turned to stone. So then Celestia uses magic to give twilight her wings back and teleports her back to Ponyvile, and she tells her friends all about what princess celestia said. And then right before the end we go to the magic city which is stone and one of the statues breaks free and then smiles evily.

 

So then this would make for a great season 4 premire, i may just be blabing thoughts but tell me what you think?

That...actually makes it seem longer than it needed to be. I mean, the fact the original episode was short is why I'm glad they made it a musical, that they had songs to move the story along rather than to fill up space. (I'm not saying it didn't have songs that felt like filler, but still.)

 

We still have two more episodes for this story arc, so let's see how they pan out. Of course, we must endure the soul-crushing pony drought that we have no idea how long will last.

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So...according to Meghan Mcarthy, being a princess in equestria is apparently something that is earned for being a good pony:

 

http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/Alicorns

 

 

"princess [in Equestria] is a designation that’s earned, not freely given and though princesses have specific leadership roles in pony society, being one really means 'being a good pony who shares the gifts that they have been given with others.'"

 

 

.......... OKAY!!! So, um, I guess it's like a fancy title given to ponies who are really good people, as a reward for their.....goodness........um......UM......UUUUUUUUUUM, so, wait, it isn't about NEEDING another ruler, but it's basically a reward for being a good person (but they still have leadership duties)? O.....KAY.......THEN........But, you know, er, they should probably have a limit on how many ponies can be princess at a time, because I don't think they want, let's say,500 princesses simultaneously. And that doesn't redeem every other plot hole in the episode.

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So...according to Meghan Mcarthy, being a princess in equestria is apparently something that is earned for being a good pony:

 

http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/Alicorns

 

 

"princess [in Equestria] is a designation that’s earned, not freely given and though princesses have specific leadership roles in pony society, being one really means 'being a good pony who shares the gifts that they have been given with others.'"

 

 

.......... OKAY!!! So, um, I guess it's like a fancy title given to ponies who are really good people, as a reward for their.....goodness........um......UM......UUUUUUUUUUM, so, wait, it isn't about NEEDING another ruler, but it's basically a reward for being a good person (but they still have leadership duties)? O.....KAY.......THEN........But, you know, er, they should probably have a limit on how many ponies can be princess at a time, because I don't think they want, let's say,500 princesses simultaneously. And that doesn't redeem every other plot hole in the episode.

 

Wow, that's really her justification? I thought it was something fans came up with to explain it. Excuse me for a moment, I need to go to the hospital and get my sides stitched back together. My intense laughter has caused them to split apart.

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All I got from this episode is. If you turn into an alicorn you're automatically coronated as a princess. Princess of what? Oh no there doesn't need to be a nation for you to rule for us to make princesses it's not like they're meant to be political figures, but if you really need one we can knock the mayor down a two and let you take her job in Ponyville. What it sounds unfair to do that to someone that has been spent her time on campaigns to rise up her status? Oh no it's ok you became an alicorn that's all the reason to make you a princess!  We have many crowns in Celestia's closet just collecting dust! Oh where did they come from? They're donations from earth ponies... oh no the earth ponies love to make money for us! They're not donations? Force labor? What are you talking about?

 

Hey look that thing has wings and a horn! Let's crown it a princess.

 

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It's never been indicated or implied that Applejack was the sole thing keeping the farm from running down. Also, her siblings still should've helped instead of letting Pinkie run the orchard into the ground.

 

She isn't solely responsible for the farm's stability. Again the theme of the episode is the importance of harmony/friendship without any of them the farm maybe be in deep trouble particularly Big Mac and Applejack. The apple family are in and of themselves a representation of harmony as has been shown before(sisterhooves social, Flim flam bros). This is emphasized by their reappearance in a true true friend. It also shows the artistic exaggeration going on, as harmony is restored so is the farm, trees that were once dead are alive again. The reunion of the apple family is signifying the return of harmony to the farm. Its also again part of the time constraint, find a way to further show the message intended in an artistic way. Showing Pinkie working together with someone and failing would negate the message of the episode or at least hinder it. 

 

Also again exaggeration is defiantly at play here. Trees don't die that fast or regrow that fast. Visual symbolism is being used here to convey a message. This type of thing has been done before in Smile and Giggle at the Ghosties. The real big difference here is that it was never used to this extent, but the exaggerations are still just as silly when taken into full logical context. 

 

Ya, I don't buy it, sorry. I think it's just poor writing, I didn't get the impression that it was just to show that Pinkie was miserable with what she was doing, that really, really sounds like a stretch.

 

Why is it a stretch? That's clearly whats being done. Showing her failing at a job she thinks she should be good at. Not only that but showing the ponies failing at a job alone emphasizes the message being portrayed. Again I'm going to sound like a broken record but the theme of the entire episode is harmony and friendship and the importance of both. Why would this seem at all like a stretch at all. There was a whole song showing the ponies being miserable and alone, stuck in a position where they suck at life never knowing why. 

 

I was aware that she brings joy to ponyville, that was established, what was not established was that she was the sole source of Ponyville's happiness. And also, why were they miserable without her? Why is she the only thing that can make them happy? What's making them miserable? It wasn't Rarity messing up the weather, as they were still grumpy afterwards, it was not until Pinkie came along that they all became happy again. I don't believe that one person can be the sole source of an entire civilization's happiness when there is no reason given as to why the citizens are even miserable to begin with.

 

She doesn't just bring joy she seems to negates what frustration and depression would normally be in ponyville overall. Its not shown that shes the only thing that can bring joy, just that shes a major part of it, after all she is the element of laughter. Take away that major element and the frustrations and depression normally negated by pinkie creeps in. The reasons for the depression and frustration would vary just as they did in the smile song, but they dont have the time to show them all individually  So they show the frustration of the ponies as a collective.  Also ponyville is a small town, Im not sure I would consider that a entire civilization. Lets go back to lets smile for a minute. Did you think it was a crazy big plot contrivance that every one Pinkie bumped into was frustrated or depressed in some way?

 Did we ever see that much depression in ponyville before the smile song? I dont think so. How about the fact that everyone in the town danced in loving joy with her on the roof tops no less. That song did actually show pinkie bring joy to the entirety of ponyville.  How about other weird things in the past like laughing at horrible tree illusions created by dark magic to make them disappear? How about pretty much immediately realizing your talent in a musical fashion after having your fall broken by butterflies? Why did laughing at magical horror illusions make them go away? Does any of that really make logical sense when you think about it? No its exaggerated artistically to get a point across and convey emotion. That's the point certain things are going to be exaggerated to the extreme to convey a message. This is a cartoon, that is the point of a cartoon. Take the exaggeration in the smile song and remove pinkie from it. You'd have a similar exaggeration as was seen in this episode, the big difference is they had time to focus on the individual problems pinkie was solving that were causing the depression. So Im not really seeing why this is difficult to believe in the context of past episodes. I mean we've seen one pony bring order to the entire town in winter wrap up. Without Twilight there they were a disorganized frustrating mess. 

 

​The point of those scenes were to show what happens when the elements of harmony are forcibly removed from their proper places. This isn't the same thing as them leaving on a trip or an adventure. Their entire place in the world was changed. The ponies everyone knew and loved were gone from their position in which each of them played a crucial part replaced by ponies who weren't meant to be there to begin with and as a result sucked at their job. The scenes are exaggerated to show disharmony and emphasizes the the importance of the characters. As has been done before.  

 

 

That doesn't address my point at all, which is that she came to the conclusion that slapping their elements back on them would somehow give them back their memories of their special talents, despite no explanation being given as to how she came to that conclusion, as the elements have never been shown to be capable of such a thing.

 

Slapping the elements of harmony on the ponies isn't the full solution which what I was trying to get across. But your correct I should have elaborated further and I did not I will do so. Again this is where the harmony and friendship theme comes in. The key visual ques here are the cutie mark shimmer in Twilight's pupils upon her epiphany and the picture of the mane six. The Elements of Harmony take on the shape of the ponies cutie marks showing they are tied to the ponies and the ponies to them. The two ques I mentioned above are the mane six and the cutie mark in twilights eye. This is to show the connection not only of the ponies to the elements but of the importance of frienship in that conection. Working in "harmony" with their original talent whilst wearing the proper elements with the help of friendship restore the proper connection. This is because as has been established the elements of harmony work off harmony and friendship that is what connects them to the ponies to begin with. This can only be accomplished through the helping hand(hoof) of "a true friend". Twilight realizes this by looking at a picture with all of them together realizing the are the most important thing to her, again this is the theme of harmony and frienship. This is further emphasized by the fact that the cutie mark in her eyes has six stars instead of the normal five representing the the mane six in harmony using friendship. The five stars normally just represent her friends. Again the theme of harmony and friendship of the mane six unified. Twilight knows the ponies maintained their original mind sets which is why she thinks showing the ponies their talents will work. She knows she cant remind them of who the were because memory spells wont work, but she can show them through a helping hand what they meant to each other. This is were the song comes in having each of the ponies each stepping in to help one another. To sum it up Twilight's prior knowledge of the working of the elements along with her realization of the harmony of friendship are what lead her to the conclusion this will work. Its not just slapping the element on and praying, its using the proper element in harmony with the proper pony whilst performing the proper talent reestablishing a connection. Its that connection that enables the elements to function in the first place Twilight knows this. Its a connection Twilight realized in the first place in the first(technically second) episode when facing nightmare moon. 

 

 

This doesn't address the point of mine you're responding to either, my complaint was that there is no reason given as to why they even needed another princess to begin with. For the entirety of the show, Celestia and Luna have been shown to be able to run the nation just fine without a third princess, now, suddenly, they're making Twilight a princess to rule along with them. Why? What's the point? There is none, that's the problem.

My point was that we don't know how princesses work in mlp at all. This has been a consistent plot hole throughout the whole of the series. Why are there two princesses? Where the heck is the king and Queen? Does being a princess mean being in charge of a major element or does it always entail being in charge of a nation as well? Is Cadence in charge of an entire nation? There were three princesses before now there are four. With this episode I could make inferences on what being a princess in mlp is, with what we knew before I could as well, but I wont because as I said it doesn't matter for this episode. The point of the episode in regard to the princess deal was to show how Twilight got to that point of becoming a princess. This lack of knowledge was even addressed in the episode. Twilight asked what all of it meant and Celestia said that "there will be time for all of that later" So we cant say there isn't or is a point to it yet. 

 

edit: So more info was released about princesses and alicorns. We know now that the title is earned which makes sense in the context of the episode. It would seem when one reaches a heightened understanding of ones talent/purpose they ascend as it where. It would seem judging from the princesses each rises to a specific major element. Celestia is Day and life, Luna is Night and Dreams, Cadence is love and life, and Twilight would be magic/friendship/harmony. Though that is assuming Celestia and Luna came to be alicorns in the same way. thier roles as ruler is still pretty ambiguous but hopefully that will be elaborated upon.

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Wasn't really a big fan of this episode.

It was by no means bad, Actually enjoyed all the music and the cutie mark switch ups.

But as many have said it left more questions than answers. Even with it "closed up" ending you just know something is going down the beginning of season 4. I just wish they would have at least thrown us a hint.

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I agree with the people that said this happened all of a sudden and too quickly. I kind of felt like they should of teased us more for two more seasons only giving hints and clues of her becoming an alicorn. I think becoming an alicorn should have a side story for that long.

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There's a whole difference of being a savior of a city (they didn't really save the world per se) and having a title. If they were given titles then that would give them more resources to work with and that would mean less adventure and less downtime.

 

Goku in DBZ saved the world a dozen times but he doesn't have a title and for that he still remains a very interesting character.

They saved the world from eternal night. That's something that will effect the entire planet in one way or another, a pretty darn bad way. Whilst its true Discords chaos effects seemed not spread outside of ponyville they would have. We know this because Celestia had stated he ruled over the whole of equestria. Though now that I think of it didn't his effects spread past ponyville? Weren't they in Canterlot when pinkie said she was going to go outside to drink the chocolate rain? The Canterlot Wedding was defiantly confined to Canterlot. The Crystal Empire scenario though would have effected everyone though as the magic it emanated from the crystal kingdom is said to effect Equestria. So Id say they saved the world or at the very least all of Equestria. Though my original point was that since nobody can seem to recognize the ponies who have stained glass art dedicated to them. A whole ceremony was dedicated it. . Doing any one of the things they have done would earn you legendary status. So whilst you are right about the difference in title, it would seem the ponies of equestria have a bit of skyrim syndrome. No matter what they do they wont be recognized by the majority. 

 

 

 

Thats actually one of the biggest problems I had with DBZ. Apparently they the shittiest record keepers in history. Though they wouldn't know because they didnt keep records of them either. No body searched for the person who saved the entire planet. They knew what he looked like they easily have made him a house hold face. But it doesnt matter anyway because later everyone forgot about that. Wasn't the fight with piccolo televised and the Sayians? So later on when Mr Satan is convincing people that all the ki attacks and flying are tricks all I can think is What the Hell. The sayians destroyed an entire city how do you not remember that? How do you guys not remember king freaking piccolo? You know the guy who went on live television proclaiming he was going to slowly destroy cities via lottery causing global panic. How in the hell does no one but the weird racoon king remember this? Goku should be a house hold name heck Master Roushi was. anyway DBZ rant over. I should mention I love DBZ but it does have those things that bother me. 

 

I agree with the people that said this happened all of a sudden and too quickly. I kind of felt like they should of teased us more for two more seasons only giving hints and clues of her becoming an alicorn. I think becoming an alicorn should have a side story for that long.

Well the whole episode happened too quickly. So much so that key things were on screen for a few seconds. Examples include the elements of harmony switching and Twilight's revelation with the six star cutie mark. Its seems because of this that many cant pick up on the meaning and subtitles behind the episode. Out of all the negative reviews I have read barley any of them mention the spark in Twilight's eye that ties this back to the very first episode. Even the positive ones skip over it. 

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A title is a completely different story. There are standards and customs to be met and powerful authority figures will follow (they should) what Twilight asks of them to do. After all heroes are forgotten and titles go a long way. Of course it's not like Twilight didn't have a very high status to began with by just knowing Celestia, but now that she's a princess she doesn't have to depend on Celestia to come down and fix things (and Celestia was like the Deus Ex Machina of calming pony social problems). Now with Twilight's influence that might change and even if they add challenges to that we won't go back to the country romping ponies, more on trending on the red carpet problems if being a princess.

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So...... we finally got the last episode of S3...........holy Celestial Twilight Moon! (yes, that's my new phrase, sue me ^_^ ). That was just a marvelous episode! Definitely my favorite of the whole season, and one of my top episodes of the whole show! :D Marvelous job M.A.Larson. Marvelous, wondrous, fantastic job! :mellow:

*TEEEEEEEXXXXXXXT*

Finishing this gigantic post, I hope you all enjoyed this fantastic season, and until Season 4! :)

I do believe we have, perhaps, the most intricate and detailed breakdown of any MLP episode I have ever seen. I mean, just... end thread, you know?

 

The little I have to say after all the thought and discussion that has taken place here... I do trust the writers, to some extent. They have their orders and what have you, but it is their job to make sure FiM is an enjoyable show, for both the target audience and us bronies. I do not think they will disappoint to make something great out of this situation, whether it was by their own choice or not. And if for some reason they fail to deliver, it will not be for lack of trying. 

 

The episode itself, probably the most rushed MLP episode in existance, IMO. The story could have been expanded upon and explained much better than it was with a two-parter, but in the time allocated, I think they did a fantastic job. I know the "floating TV" scene with Twilight and Celestia with the flashbacks brought tears to my eyes, and it was hard to hold them back all the way to the end. Bravo, MLP team for... whatever it was that this season finale was. :P

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How did the songs adopt a "show don't tell" policy? Did you not hear the lyrics, which existed entirely to tell the audience about what the characters are feeling?

I didn't say they adopted it I said they are excellent examples of it and they are. They are used for more accentuation of character movements as they move to both pacing and tone of the music. Many times as well symbolic imagery is used as well as exaggerated scenes that in any other case would seem contrived. This is done to convey the message in a clearer way it also allows for a ton of info to be put in a short space. A good example of this is the Smile song as it includes most of the above. Character movement is set to the tone and pacing of the song. The song goes from "normal" ponyville to some weird depressing other world were clone sad pinkie is helped by normal happy pinkie also including silhouette color scenes in happy saturated colors to show movement from one scene to the next.Then you have all these sad and frustrated people around ponyville. Have we ever seen that before, no but its an exaggeration to visually convey the message. This is why certain musical numbers excel at showing something better than a normal scene ever could. Being an animated song essentially means there are no limits to the way they can play with visuals. 

 

 

That's just fishing for an explanation, and I don't think you can deny it. Twilight's memory is intact because her Element wasn't scrambled. Fine. But there is no good reason why Spike's memories should be intact. The rest of Ponyville forgot, and you can't just explain it away. "Oh, Spike remembers because he lives in close proximity to Twilight!" That doesn't make any sense



Its not his proximity to Twilight I was referring to, it his connection to Twilight. It was the test to hatch him that got twilight noticed by Celestia, though of course the sonic rainboom was the catalyist for it. But it seems spike is special in his connection to twilight. After all if hatching an egg is the test Celestia's sets up for you it must require some special magic. In essence I saw a connection between the element of magic and Spike. Though I should have indicated that it did bother a little as its not touched upon visually, pretty much the only thing I touched on that wasn't. 

Though this leads me into something I had put some thought into whilst think about this perceived connection  If you want to talk about plot holes then you need look no further than Spike. His very origin is a plot hole. It is indicated that he is the only dragon living amongst ponies as no one not even Twilight knows about dragon growth. Yet knowing this why was this the acceptance test for twilight? Its not indicated that Twilight met Celestia before that point so Celestia wouldn't know to test Twilight. Why did Celesia do that? Did she do it? Why let a little filly raise a dragon? Barring some clever explanation from season four it would seem a major plot hole. So it would seem you are right here, not because I was "reaching". But because in thinking I saw a connection between Twilight's element and his birth, I found a bigger problem. One which just becomes more confusing in the whole context of the show.
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I still think they went with a very adventurous idea, knowing that some bronies will hate some won't but we have all forgotten that little kids still watch it too and they must of enjoyed it. But I still enjoyed it the nether the less.

 

I really enjoyed the episode though it was a musical phenomenon all the songs were meaningful and I think Tara really showed her  great voice, all the ponies got a cool part and Celistia's song and role was very special.

 

Twilight becoming an Alicorn does not really bother me I am going to be a brony till the end so I do not really care. I think thought it can 

make loads of open idea's for new episodes like Twilight becoming a snob, Rainbow teaching her how to fly ect...

 

Over all this episode is marked a 9/10! /)

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Guys, seriously, chill out. I bet you just feel offended because of that Alicorn thingy. Then you tried to find bugs and plot holes in this episode to make it sounds bad. Complaining about the episode and show the plot holes doesn't make you look smarter.

 

"We're not kids. We're intelligent adult watchers who know how to rate a show."

 

It looks like you're trying to say that. Seriously, it's funny to see how you do that. Moaning and complaining about a show which you claim you love so much. If you keep looking at the bad side, I bet you will find more and more, like the bad designed dresses for example, but if you see the good side, which isn't only few, you will feel grateful.

 

Gratitude~ I love that song. :lol:

The songs are awesome. The possible plot line from that episode is interesting. The animation becomes better in that new episode. Much better! I always giggle when I remember those back flip ponies. Celestia got her own song! Celestia! What a voice man!

 

The morale is so...so...really fits my current situation. A time for a new change to come. Time to fulfill my destiny. Really fits my current situation and it gives me a magnificent morale booster. Thank you Hasbro! Lets see what I will be. A programmer for sure. After I saw that episode, I insist that I will keep learning harder and harder. :lol:

Thank you very much Hasbro!

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I'll say this, if all the plot holes in this episode are left unexplained, than yes, it will most likely irredeemably ruin the show for me. I hope that everything will be explained, but I don't have much optimism at this point. Sad, how a show can be good for so long and then all of a sudden, one episode comes along, and throws it under a bus, where it is mangled beyond repair. But like I said, hopefully season 4 will fix it, and at the end of the day, it's just a TV show, so if it's ruined than whatever.

 

If ACW didn't ruin the show, no way this did. ACW had more plotholes, more continuity killing and retcons, and more annoying and glaringly out of place additions in it(Cadance primarily). 

 

 

Oh, and ACW, for all it's flaws, doesn't even enter the bottom five of series. That honor belongs to a mixture of episodes, of which the biggest bunch is from Season 1.

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So, I watched the episode. And it wasn't bad. A few of the songs were ok. Not as good as the other ones in the series, but they were OK. Is this the first time in the series we've heard Princess Celestia singing?

 

Anyway, I've seen the episode. Why do I now feel like I just lost the game?

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So I finally got to watching this last night.

Well, firstly, I found it really quite bizarre in a way, in that it felt more like the very end of the show for some reason, and perhaps even what could have been a perfect note to end on.
In fact, I think this could have been a great plot to have been panned out over a TV movie in itself, perhaps even a grand finale in the much further future.

But moving onto my thoughts about the actual episode's content, I can't help but feel the story's pacing was all too quick for what was being told, feeling essentially more like a series of songs and then literally all of a sudden Twilight is now an Alicorn. I just feel it would have benefited from some not so hurried pacing.

After the episode, I had a "Wait!" moment. I wondered, so what if Twilight had not said the verses out loud in the first place? If it hadn't been for that, then the episode's events could not have occured in the first place.
Furthermore, is one to assume Celestia somehow knew Twilight would in fact read it aloud, as though this was all purposely meant to happen in a sense? Did Celestia "make this be", was it all part of some secret grand master plan of hers?
Or was the way everything went purely all down to circumstance?
I can't help but wonder about such elements of the plot, and feel were perhaps left just a little too loosely open for their own good.

Also, I can't help but wonder: Was this episode really originally planned and written in mind as being the story where Twilight's ultimate transition is made? Or was the Alicorn element something that came along later, and this was found to be the best available script at the time to work it into?
I say this because, when looking at the episode in a certain way, it to me almost feels shoe-horned in, like it doesn't belong, as though the episode was originally supposed to simply be:

Hey, all cutie marks are switched - Cutie marks are now all restored. The End.

Yet another memorable and humorous story, told over the usual course of 22 minutes.

As opposed to:

Cutie marks are switched and restored all in the course of half an ep's length - Twilight's big transition in life shown in the next half.

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Maybe what I've put forward in the above is just me, but the episode just doesn't quite seem to gel together.

Or perhaps that's what was being gone for here? That we were to think (assuming one was not already in the know about Twilight's transition) this was simply another good ol' little episode, and then suddenly...

BAM! In your face! Twilight's an Alicorn now! Bet you didn't see that one coming huh? And you just thought this was simply going to be a plot about cutie marks being switched? Ha, well didn't we surprise you this time?

In the following case, if this indeed was the intention, then I still feel it could have been executed better than in the final product we received.

And if the plot was in fact supposed to be 'cutie marks - Alicorn' all along, then I go back home to the point of pacing, of which in this case the story I feel would have worked much better even over the course of a 2-parter.



Moving onto my final thoughts, I will first make it clear I certainly do not dislike the episode overall, however, it's just I do have issues with it.

But when it comes down to things, it was quite good for what it was. Twilight's transition act of the episode was nonetheless nicely done, being the best part of the episode for me. I even felt strong emotion throughout, notably during the actual scene of transformation itself, the monitors showing various memories past, and the closing moments of the episode.


Overall, for the future of Twilight and the programme, I feel both unsure and hopeful at the same time.

I just hope things will be handled well, and that this will not end up being the programme's jump-the-shark point. I will remain optimistic the writers and the rest of the team will come up with more great material, and be able to keep the show all tightly-knitted together as it has ever been.

Either way, when it comes down to it, I definitely see Twilight's transformation as a big deal, and am interested in seeing just where things now go.

Season 4 will tell, and I shall wait to see what it holds.

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In my initial comment, two days ago, I expressed concerns this episode wouldn't hold up to scrutiny. While still early, my opinion thus far remains unchanged. Worst thing I have to say about this episode is that Morning in Ponyville and Life in Equestria weren't that good. (Though contrasting them does provide a beautiful metaphor, see Bronycurious.) Apart from that, the line about "liquid pride" was painfully corny. Meh, neither flaw amounts to much. 

 

By the way, did anyone else laugh out loud when it looked like Twilight had been disintegrated?

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From what people have always worried about and were concerned, I don't see it in all honesty. I can kinda see that the episode was quote unquote "jumping the shark" but the episode really fit and yes no villain was in this but so far my favorite episode in the series due to the entire episode being a musical. 

 

Does it feel rushed? hmmm...sorta but at the sametime it doesnt. I'm just mostly used to the fact of the series finales in MLP being two parts but this wasn't so that's fine. It feels strange watching this episode as it felt like as if it was the ending of the series in general

 

To me the series still gets better and better, and I'm definitely looking forward to what'll be in season 4. I'm curious, excited, and I don't think this is the end of the series in general just because Twilight is now a princess

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