There's no doubt in my mind that airing the season premiere of MLP on Doctor Who's 50th birthday was 100% intentional. I knew in the very core of me that it would. Of all the days this year - of all the Saturdays - they would pick November 23rd. There has to be as many bronies who are Whovians as there are furries who are bronies. The temptation to pander to that was just too overwhelming.

 

And they nailed it. While the episode stood on its own as a magnificent kick-off to a promising season, the story did serve was a complementary appetizer to The Day of the Doctor. Overall, it was a day to remember.

 

Now of course, I wouldn't be talking about Doctor Who on an MLP forum if I didn't have another hair-brained crossover theory in mind. And to my luck, the Internet has once again met me halfway.

 

 

The War Doctor, the Moment and the Twilicane. Does any more need to be said? Yes, because it'll all go down in vain if we don't over analyze and milk it.

 

It's not completely out of the question to wonder if this was intentional. There was that Easter egg of Dr. Whooves dressed as a pear, a reference that

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Let's say, hypothetically, the staff behind MLP saw the trailers for The Day of the Doctor in early November, which featured the War Doctor about to press the button. They decided to pull a South Park and quickly animated the red ruby on a golden stick known as the Twilicane, foreseeing that bronies would absolutely obsess over it, while the even more Aspergian Doctor Who subdivision of the fandom would see an allusion to the Moment. Thus proving they have fan service down to a science, thanks to research and hard work from the Ministry of Easter Eggs, or Miniegg.

 

However, I'm probably giving the people behind Equestria Girls too much credit. It's almost certainly a coincidence. You know, like how a background pony resembling the Doctor in the first place was just a coincidence. Or how those unintentional parallels between Derpy and Clara Oswald were coincidences. No need to go down any rabbit holes of paranoia.

 

But! For shits and giggles, let's toy with head canon. Revisiting the origin of the Twilicane:

 

 

Discord, the reformed creature of chaos and disharmony, is mocking Twilight's supposed superiority complex and sense of self-importance. (

) Let's say that the golden scepter he snapped into existence was, in fact, made out of the very Galaxy Eater device that the Doctor almost used to completely burn Gallifrey. Because that helps get his point across.

 

But how would Discord even know about it? Well, we've accepted the premise that Dr. Whooves is the Doctor. We can think of him as the Tenth Doctor and pin point his crossover into Equestria as an event during the special season between series 4 and 5. Now, for an encounter with Discord, we need to incorporate another popular fan mythos behind Doctor Whooves - Discorded Whooves.

 

The story here is that Discord had overpowered the Doctor and drained him of his personality, turning him into an evil, dickish Mr. Hyde-esque incarnation to use as a puppet. In this process, he tapped deep into the Doctor's subconscious to bring his inner darkness to fruition. It stands to reason that he stumbled onto the Doctor's greatest secret, his hidden incarnation not even worthy to be called "The Doctor".

 

Thus, Discord was well-aware of the Moment and all it was capable of doing. This begs the greater question: How would he even get his paw and claw on it? The Moment, the Time War and Gallifrey were all 'time locked', or completely cut off from the rest of the universe. Time Lords themselves with all their advance scientific knowledge, technology and wizardry can't escape, and a Dalek who did manage to scratch his way out completely lost his mind. (Not that Discord is a beacon of sanity.) Lest we forget that the events of Doctor Who take place in another universe from Equestria altogether.

 

While Discord is magic and has the ability to alter reality, he can't be this powerful, right? To obtain such an item for a quick, cheap joke only you yourself would get, one would have to be a near omnipotent, transdimensional being with a twisted sense of humor...

 

 

 

 

There you have it, bronies. The golden scepter you've latched onto to the point of derangement, the creepily cute little thing you're spamming absolutely everywhere, is the sole item that finally binds My Little Pony with Doctor Who and Star Trek.