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scootaloo is nemo confirmed

I will say that Fluttershy, being the one that wasn't biased like twilight or rainbow, was the one more likely to find the truth behind everyone's perspectives. We saw in another episode that Caballeron knows that more than lies, the truth itself is what's against Daring, so why wouldn't Fluttershy believe him if the points he's making are completely valid and reasonable. on top of him being probably a bit too generous to himself since he has done bad but we already know that, we know that he's bad, the bigger issue here is that Daring has been portrayed as a hero and is allowed to do what she does without consequences. That would also explain why everyone else was on board with Caballeron's version of the events, because he has a point! Or several. And Daring can't deny them because it's true.

I had the impression that she didn't. She just basically said "I'm not going to take anything from you anymore" but everything else is already done so I'm keeping those. Same with Caballeron, he just promised to Ahuizotl but we don't know if he could steal things from others or other sites. About the cultural background, I'm just gonna say, tomb raiding is bad and punishable by law (despite what the movies or videogames say), specially if the place you are raiding is not abandoned because then it's just plain stealing. Sorry Daring but it's the truth. Professor Fossil says so. Actually she didn't said anything but I'm pretty sure she would. And this problem is likely because Daring shouldn't have been an actual real life pony in the first place because a lot of what she does suddenly is not as good as it is seen in her fantasy adventure books. That's what happens when you try to bring Harry Potter to real life with real life consequences. I can just imagine how it was from Ahuizotl's perspective. It would be like you are in your house one day and you have this beautiful painting of Jesus your great great grandma made and it's been deteriorating a bit with time but it's a family heirloom that you put in the living room with candles to pray. Then one day you are sleeping in your room and suddenly someone enter your house and without any explanation just takes your painting. You try to stop them and they kick your a** claiming that it is invaluable and belongs to a museum, and that somehow it has the ability to cast millenia long curses when you pray on it when in reality it like, idk keeps your house safe somehow (it's the support pillar). They ran out destroying your house in the process and you are pissed off, shaking your fist in the air saying things like "curse you, freaking (uhh...idk, put some racist stuff here)! I hope you die in a fire and all of you because it's the third time this month! And when I find you I'll kill you!". And then you have to rebuild your home if you can or move elsewhere waiting for the day they'll come back and take more of your stuff but next time you'll be prepared, and every time it keeps escalating until you actually find a way to probably punish those who fault you and from your side of the story you would be absolutely right to be pissed. All this time we have seen this story from Daring's perspective and we know she hasn't say all the truth. Also half truths are not truths, they are lies, either she knew knew about them or not. I do believe she was trying to do good, honestly, but in trying to do good she did more damage to not only the people living in Tenochtitlan but the archeological places and mythical beings living there for an artifact. You are suppose to be preserving the stuff you are destroying! And, you never approached the people first to explain them why?! And even if you do you have no right to take their stuff! We don't know how the conflict started (like a feud fight (I forgot the word)) but it sounds to me that it was Daring that was like "I'm taking this, thanks! (tips fedora)". We actually had another episode dedicated specifically and entirely to Daring's misbehavior and destruction of Sonambula's town. And on top of that how Caballeron, even if he was taking advantage of this situation to best Daring, was actually saying the truth about his she leaves a path of destruction behind her. And I actually thought that episode, trying to make Daring not the bad guy, took away her responsibility over many of the things she was responsible of and patted her in the back because she couldn't be bad, "she's the hero", "Caballeron is the scapegoat... I mean, the bad guy".

I have the same conundrum but that's part of why i choose changeling . aside from that, yeah like, why not.

no one said it was going to be easy to find a pun in those names. Honestly, if there's no good puns to draw from them i prefer 100 times that they stay with the actual names, otherwise it could get insulting to some people since it's still an actual place and religion for some so it can get into insulting territory, so meh, it's fine... quetzalcolt, Tenochequine... idk I just saw the Daring Don't episode and i didn't remember that there was aztec ponies helping Ahuizotl. So there you go. There's aztec ponies living there.

i find it kinda weird to hear the actual real names of the places and characters they choose for the pony equivalent of aztecs. It's like instead of Baltimare or Las Pegasus you would have Baltimore and Las Vegas mentioned exactly like they are in the world of mlp. So we have Tenochtitlan and Tenochtitlan (like... what? the one i can actually go?), Ahuizotl and Ahuizotl, Quetzalcoatl and Quetzalcoatl, and it's ummm... weird, and funny to hear they exist in the mlp universe but understandable because of the language barrier XD

about Caballeron, I think it was very good that they try to not make him totally evil. Yeah we have only seen his now greedy side but it's totally understandable that he would loose sight of his initial objectives once his museum went out of business and his version of the story, although still glossed over by his own perspective on things, has truths in it about himself and Daring Doo. Just recently i saw the "what ruined Don Bluth" by Saberspark and it reminded me of what could be a similar situation to Caballeron in the sense that maybe his intentions were noble at first but his situation moved him to do things he was not comfortable with because he needed money and then his own personality started to get more out of tune of who he was and his objectives before it, or how for Caballeron's his own rivalry with Daring Doo might have suddenly changed him just like Don's rivalry with Disney, but in the end both Don and Caballeron came to terms with their fortune and went back to their roots. It does happen in real life too. I'm so glad that Caballeron is reformed in a sense and that he also stayed truthful to himself by being honest about his real intentions, that he just wanted money, though that was because of the amulet, and that he had a change of heart when fluttershy showed him kindness, because that happens too! some people will do bad things because they can't really see the people who they hurt but if that person is one that they care about or that they feel doesn't deserve the pain then they will think it two times before doing it again, and if Fluttershy would have gotten hurt because she suddenly discovers she was being used by him he would have been directly responsable for unjustly hurting her when she was being nothing but kind to them. He's not an inherently bad guy, and many people aren't either. That's why Chrisallis is a villain for example, she was given the choice to change, she knew there was nothing but better things for her and her subjects but she purposely chose not to and stay prideful, oblivious and stubborn, she doesn't feel bad about hurting others because she thinks she can still justify it going under that flag and that's why she doesn't get the same treatment as the reformed villains, or better say, antagonists. Let him have the benefit of the doubt. We have given it to Daring so why not Caballeron too.

If he's a water creature that uses water to lure his victims then his boss is must probably Tlaloc, the "god" (because they are not exactly gods but more like incarnations) of everything that is water and thunder. If he kills his victims in the water then his purpose is to bring them to the Tlalocan which is the reign of death (there's two reigns of death but if you die because of water you go to the water reign of death which is said to be pretty chill actually). I love what they did with Ahuizotl this time because I'm Mexican living in Mexico and somewhat descendant of indigenous people that have lived here and I've always felt that Aztec portray in movies or cartoons in this case is that of the bad guys that try to stop the one who is taking their stuff for whatever reason ala Indiana Jones. They depict them like unreasonable magical bloodthirsty savages that were obsessed with death and of course that's not true, but that's fault of the popularity of Indiana Jones movies and the overall misunderstanding over their culture, which is pretty evident here with Daring. And of course the part where Daring destroys the sites is pretty bad on its own no matter how you see it. It's like the people that come visit the temples and sometimes there's things inside them (like spear heads or pieces of pottery) and people sneak inside them and take them! Wth! Don't! Just leave them where they are! And don't kick or graffiti the pyramids! Also don't enter the pyramids, you can get lost and or trapped. There's people that still worship the ancient gods and leave statues and figurines with oferings nearby or inside caves, don't take them! Obviously there's the part when we first met Ahuizotl in the show and how he's portraid as a villain, but I think that was in part because we kinda were seeing it from Daring Do's and Rainbow Dash's perspective, like reality glossed over the appearance of adventure and good guys vs bad guys. it's perfectly logical that Ahuizotl would be a guardian, why else would he be there, and also he's an Aztec! He wouldn't hesitate to kill someone to keep safe the place or thing he's guarding or even punish humanity (ponykind?) for having got on his nerves but the thing is that those kind of punishments are not for free (I mean! freeaking Luna wanted to ban nightmare night forever and refused to lower the moon out of envy endangering everyone! and she's not a villain or inherently evil, she's a guardian in a sense too. The Yaks declared war to ponies for being insulting to their culture and got forgiven in the same episode! and now you are telling me that Ahuizotl is not redeamable and he's out of place when he has reasons to hate on daring do?! He also has the backup of aztec ponies to punish the foreign artifact thief, pyramid destructor ponies?!). Aztec gods didn't wanted to destroy the world or the people, except one of them, the moon in some versions which wanted to eat the world out of revenge to the other gods. And if this has the same logic as the real world counterpart then this kind of gods can step on each other's feet and since he's more connected to water then Xiuhtecuhtli, the god of heat and fire, can punish Ahuizotl for using sun and heat as methods for his stuff. Although in mlp's version of Ahuizotl he guards Tonatiuh's treasure and uses more sun and heat methods so that would mean that Xiuhtecuhtli is his boss, which is also possible since Xiuhtecuhtli had some water creature's at his command too, and he could severely punish Ahuizotl for loosing Tonatiuh's stuff (because Tonatiuh, the sun god, is literally the Sun, so... he can't punish anyone because his only purpose is to stay in the sky and for him to do that he wants sacrifices with blood because he himself sacrificed to create the fitht sun and he's bleeding constantly. The more you know) along with Tezcatlipoca being his boss as well because cats and the sole presence of jaguars in his team of cats, that would also explain Cipactli's inclusion (but would also cast some questions on mlp's lore and world with having multiple Sun "gods" and incarnations . Good fanfiction material ). Aztec gods are not perfect, they are more like Greek gods in the sense that they can be just flawed as humans and make mistakes out of anger, pressure, distraction, etc. I loved this episode overall! It finally talks about understanding. How listening and actually trying to understand can make you take off the assumption glasses over everything or everyone. It's one very important lesson a lot of people tend to forget and it's something that we as humanity always lack.

That's not excuse to rob someone's possessions. If that were the case wouldn't you just offer to protect the artifacts in better conditions rathen than just take them by force?

i think we all share the same sentiment. It shows in the show how the writers didn't had much love for spike overall (i mean, he's not even human in eqg, he's a dog, and he's always the butt of the jokes in the show). We were told that he was like a little brother to twilight and somehow that she took care of him because celestia said so but we only see the assistant/secretary part and never the family side of them until the very last seasons and it was very strange since once we got to the false dad issue it the emotional charge of what could have been wasn't there.

We never visited zebra land or Saddlearabia and the tall ponies either. Or the mystery beging the weird giraffe that looks like could be sapient but is kinda not.

I honestly think it was ok. A little too slow but I don't have problem with the lesson or Sludge being manipulative. And me in particular would have wanted to Sludge to be his actual dad and be saying the truth about his origin and such but still being a total!... booty... Why? you must be asking. Because personally I identify with Spike in this one. I don't have that much of an a** dad but he's still an a**, the thing is that he neither goes away nor does he wants to get better. He's just as manipulative and destructive of my own well being and our family as well as trying to pretend to be a dad out of guilt of his own actions. Well my mother too to be fair but she's more on the Spoiled Rich territory. It was ok that he didn't got any punishment in the end, not because it was the right thing or because it would have been satisfying but because sometimes, more than it should be, it's just what happens, and you have to swallow it and be content with at least having other people that do care. Spike realizing that his family is not a blood related one is huge! Is a very important lesson! We got what we got despite that it would have been much better to have him meet his real father and still finding him disappointing but maybe it was too "dark" for the show to show a bad dad or something. Y know, because kids won't ever encounter that in their own lives, how could your dad be bad?