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You forgot the part about that little... thing they slipped in. You know what I'm talking about. The potion. Where it has a thick, round base, and it's long, thick tube for a top, and within this flask is a white liquid.... You CANNOT tell me they didn't know what they were doing with that.

And some other things to add: Drive-by Conflicts: Rather than developing two or so good underlying conflicts in the story, we're presented with a number of come-and-go conflicts that have little or no bearing on the plot in and most cases wouldn't have made one bit of difference if they were cut out. Examples: Snips and Snails get embarrassing photos of Twilight and post it in a video and then share it with the whole school (which is itself silly). It's mentioned once, is resolved very quickly, and never heard from again. All the friends are broken up and fighting amongst themselves (again, itself extremely stupid)? Just a few minutes in a room together and they solve it themselves. The whole fake photos subplot? resolves itself in about 10 seconds flat and really doesn't serve much purpose to the plot at all (other than to inject a needless scene with Flash Sentry in it). he thing about Flash Sentry being Sunset Shimmer's ex? Never brought up again at all. The problem about her revealing herself as a pony? Pretty much resolves itself before it becomes an issue. Need to win the hearts and minds of everyone else in the school? just a quick song and problem solved! School gym destroyed? Solved in a single screen. Pretty much the only conflict that isn't solved like this is the single one that would have been most plausible if solved this way: the crown one. And even that's solved in the most asspulling manner possible. Twilight is both a Mary Sue, and is the 2nd most useless character in the movie. Seriously, this was one of the biggest gripes of season 3: that in seasons 1 and 2 the show was about a group of 6 pony friends that needed each other. This was appallingly obvious in Lesson Zero. Come S3 though the friends start being shoved to the side and it becomes more and more about oh so wonderful Twilight, and she gets turned into a Mary Sue. And in EQG it's even worse. Here she isn't even allowed to take her real friends, and no, that explanation that Celestia gives is complete bullshit (especially when Spike proves it to be so.) It's just hand waving to show that the show isn't really about her friends anymore. They have outlived her usefulness. Even in the human world the cardboard cutouts that make up the main 5 are just a means to an end. And at the same exact time, we have the seemingly contradictory fact that twilight doesn't really even do anything of value at all. She doesn't get the friends back together... they do that all by themselves (and for some reason give Twilight the credit). She doesn't come up with the plan to get the school to like her and vote for her (rarity does that), she doesn't resolve any other conflicts or even really help resolve them (they pretty much just do this by themselves.) Hell, she isn't even that great in the final battle (which was total ass by itself so I guess it can't be helped much).

Of course, some EQG apologists will try to counter this by saying that it wasn't so much the fact that equestria would be without their weapon, but that Sunset would use it to invade the other world... ... but let's get real there. A crown that turns you into a magical cosplay queen against... what? Police with guns. Yeah I suppose in a straight firefight you could just throw up a magic sheild to protect yourself, buuuut... Then you have Army and Marines with armored vehicles, missiles, and guns (and no, those missiles aren't as slow as games often make them out to be.) Even if your magic shield could protect you against those heavier vehicles, it won't protect you from a sneak attack by a sniper several miles away. Not to mention the Air force with long range anti-air and anti-ground capabilities. Navy with long range heavy guns and cruise missiles. And everything else that doesn't qualify with nuclear bombs. ... yeeeeaaaaah. Somehow I get the feeling that the world is not quite as defenseless as Celestia makes it out to be. In fact there's a bigger threat from any of these powers discovering the portal than there is from sunset taking over the world.

No. This is no Deus Ex Machina. This is much worse than that. One minute sunset shimmer has our heroines on the ropes with no chance of getting out of the current situation they're in, and the next minute she basically pulls the other elements (and the current one) right out her ass. I mean, seriously! If she could just have done that, why couldn't she just have done that right from the outset?! Seriously, that "solution" pretty much makes the whole trip into the human world completely pointless (well more than it already it). I mean, if Twilight could just magic poof the elements back, why did she not just do that from the very beginning?! According to the ending, this movie should have been over in the first 5 minutes: Sunset: Sorry it had to be like this! (goes into the portal)Twilight: Girls, assemble! (Girls:) (does the element of harmony thing) TASTE THE ASSPULL MOTHER FUCKER!! Twilight: (has her crown back) Well that was easy. To paraphrase TheSpoonyOne's review of Final Fantasy VIII: (And the part where he's referring to with the Ragnarok appearing out of nowhere actually seems pretty coherent compared to this.) Not to mention the fact that a teenage zombie army taking over anything other than a small town for about one day at the very best before the military shows up (what she didn't think that world didn't have a military, or militaries? I mean if they have computers and cell phones and cars and such and its roughly based on a human world it's a pretty safe bet that they also have guns, tanks, rockets, armored vehicles, fighters, bombers, nuclear weapons, etc. Did Sunset do ANY sort of research about the weapons, tools, politics, etc of this world while she was over there at all?!) is so absurd and so implausible that it's just utterly ridiculous. Even with her magic (which by the way, I have my suspicions that it doesn't make her bulletproof... or at the very least explosion proof. Let alone Nuke-Proof.) She still has to worry about pretty much everything this world could throw at her, which they will. Not to mention, even if she gets that far, there's rebellions and coups to worry about. Not to mention that I hope she has some sort of economic plan ready to go. I mean, even if everyone's your slave you still have to have a plan for things like commerce and having to worry about feeding everyone and such. And yes, her plan is simply to invade Equestria, but guess what? She wouldn't fare that much better there either. Not only does she have... again, a teenage zombie army from ONE SCHOOL, that has, for starters, no combat skills, no weapons, and no higher brain functions to form any kind of short term tactics or strategy, and not to mention will be most likely suffering from the same cross-body problems that twilight suffered from when she first entered the human world (good luck teaching everyone how to move their legs, use magic, fly, etc. in the span of about 5 minutes at best) against the entire equestrian army, and the crystal empire's army. Not to mention any allies in any other countries they might have. "I Have Magic!!" Well guess what? So does 1/3rd of equestria. Not to mention so does Celestia. And Luna. And Cadence. And the Crystal Empire as a whole (they killed sombra without the elements after all, and odds are he was a lot more powerful and had more experience at this than you do, Sunset.) And not to mention there's the other 5 elements. I mean, we all remember how well that went when twilight tried to use her single element more or less alone against Discord when the others weren't working... it didn't go very well. And speaking of Discord, even you don't take his reformation into account I highly doubt he has any interest in playing second banana to sunset shittmmer. Are you REALLY telling me that just because Sunset has that SINGLE element that she is now much more powerful than ANY of those, let alone ALL Of those?! And while we're at it, what does she think will happen when she crosses over? What, does she really think she'll keep her power when she jumps through? Well if that was the case, why did she even have to go to the high school world to begin with (with was fucking stupid by the way)? Why not just use the crown right off the bat? I mean, sunset said it herself: "Do you know what happens to the elements when they cross over to the other world" (or something like that.) Which means there's NO guarantee that the element will even WORK for her when its back in Equestria. ARRGGHHH... This thing just has so many plot holes that are so big you could drive the titanic through them. Basically it shows that the writers had no faith or no real interest in this clunker of a film at this point, and just wanted to get it over with, and instead of good writing and plot consistence, they basically rely on a game of "find the background pony" and other cultural references to keep the simpler minded bronies happy. Newsflash though: Wheres Waldo games, pop songs, and other gimmics are not a replacement for good writting.