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Well that's a very good thought there! I actually didn't think about that myself. Though, I have to agree with the others above, I would assume that she gave them gems for it. I can imagine her just giving them gems without saying why lol

Well to be honest I am not a big fan of the whole "ponies living in a big city" thing. "in the magical land of Equestria" says the first ep. Not that a big city takes away the fact that Equestria is magical, but it just kills the whole view I had of equestria. It's not like something you'd expect from a magical world with colorful ponies. I kinda wished that a bigger city was more like ponyville with more simpler buildings or maybe like the houses in the crystal empire, maybe a little taller to show that it's a big city. But that it looked like a real life city was a bit disappointing for me actually.

Well I used to know many other bronies actually. Most of them were my friends actually. However, lately most of them has left the fandom and stuff so I think I only know like 2 bronies irl now

Nah I doubt that the pony of shadows, fluttershy's fang or the rainbow thread will have anything to do with the big story or ending of the season. I would guess they're just things added to make it all more interesting. However the box with the keyholes will definitely be seen again further in to the season. Hopefully it's like them finding each key in different episodes and not all keys in one episode.

lol no way :3 I'm pretty sure it was just some sort of fun thing they threw in like "these elements together creates a rainbow" You know, like when they use the elements of harmony they shoot dat amazin' rainbow thing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6nhiFZmX3w I doubt it means anything special

Bad? Nah. Disappointing? Maybe. If you ask me, the episodes has been created in a good way and I enjoy to watch them. However I'm not sure what to say about the episodes themselves, you see it feels like they create episodes based off what they think we would want to see... ...Which is good! It's great how they included things such as the moon-banning story and all that. But it feels like some of the things were quite stupid adds that were just in there for us to have a laugh at and stuff. Instead of focusing every single new episode on something super big cause they think it will be so great to watch, they could step down with all the super powers and villains etc and just maybe have an episode about something simpler. I'll just mention a couple of things so you get what I mean; being late often, eat healthy, respect others and be accepting, ask before assuming things, and so on. Without any fancy stuff and without evil magic creatures. Just the ponies facing normal problems in ponyville. Maybe sounds boring to you people, but I'd like to see some more of that. The only disappointing episode so far has been power ponies. It was just stupid, tbh. If it were a dream of Spike's, I'd be cool with it. But now it was "reality" and Fluttershy became the hulk... Yeah... ..And then we got the pinkie episode :3