TriMara

Honestly needed an upgrade anyway. Besides they kept it similiar so its whatever imo.

I cringed so hard i could no longer watch. The minute i cringe is the minute i stop watching. Just about every rainbow dash episode makes the mistake of thinking cringe humour and other cringey things are actually good. Honestly not sure what i expected from this episode. (that rarity hair style flip doe)

She was like the partial focus of at least one episode. Im just thankfull they gave her that much. There are tons of other characters i would rather have a whole episode dedicated to.

^ Thats all i need to hear. I sure hope they have a large sense of scale in the movie. Would be neat to see more worldbuilding out of a show that is usually more prone to leave it to the imagination

Personally i think the comment was merely thrown out so as people didnt get to heartbroken at the thought that of Twilight outliving her freinds. The biggest clincher here is either alicorns dont show age like ponies or granney is just shriveled from some sort of disease. So although them living super long is plausible it wouldnt make sense for granney to start aging so horribly if she was say a 1000 years old because as you say if ponies lived to be 2000 she would only be middle aged? Why would her body be falling apart and her hearing going and other signs of advanced age?

I think your missing other smaller things that have shaken the status qou such as subtle shifts in characters, most notably RD gaining a little humility, Twilight taking on more responsibility, becoming more and more well known, phsyically growing taller, other ponies reactions to discord and the other reformed "villians" even little things like how ponies react to luna have changed over the seasons but its not as easy since they arent big like new villians or something huge like new characters or princesshood. Even just a subtle shift in relashionships changes the status quo it just takes mroe time for it to be noticeble. But they could easily throw that into the show such as time skips, jump aheads, jumping back to show how much things have changed. Changing the status qou doesnt have to be big, it could be as easy as more character involvement like say Luna finally steps up to be a full head of the goverment of equestria letting celestia take a larger role in the show which would be very different such as being able to see more of her character and maybe even *squee* a celestia episode. Or something like that.

There are a million ways to change the status quo slightly without upsetting the show balance, merely have a change in scenery, location shift, someone's job changes, someone gets married, the addition of new characters, the limit (but not deletion) of others, shifting of roles around, new powers, new worldbuilding (Which could in itself be limitless), new monsters, threats, the addition of a villian that becomes the primary antagonist instead of being a one or 2 off villian. etc etc.