Tony_Pony

I like this idea! Maybe she knew she couldn't hold ponykind's hooves forever and things would need to get worse before they hot better It would be pretty awful for an entire species to have to rely on their princess to even get along at a basic level. She'd be stuck in that position for eternity teaching the same lessons over and over, and they'd never really learn for themselves

My theory is that while twilight is a good teacher, her lessons failed to really reach her student, and maybe she was forced into a retirement earlier than anticipated by some unforseen circumstances. Either way twilight likely left without a proper heir and the ponies appointed leaders as guides and figureheads. I think twilight had a hoof in creating the 3 major cities, maybe seeking to showcase the beauty of each pony species in their own unique ways. After she left (or maybe disappeared) the ponies and their new leaders over time began to congregate in their cities out of growing fear and mistrust of their own kind. I do think maybe a small war even broke out, driving ponies deeper into their cities and cementing generations of stories about how terrible the others are and to be afraid. All this time magic seeps away slowly and becomes nothing more than a legend. I really do think that the G4 series is as ancient to the G5 ponies as greek and roman mythos is to us. I don't have any basis on any if this aside from what i know about the series and just seeing the movie the other night. It's just for fun! Don't take this too seriously ^w^

Overall, i liked it! It's just a nice movie. Its a movie for kids so naturally things were going be simple and maybe a little cliche at times, but it was overall good. I liked getting to see all the pony cities and landscapes, and i think that the designs for the ponies were nice. I honestly thought I wasn't going to like Zipp and Pipp, the trailers made them seem like a self absorbed ponytube personality and her stuck up "i don't need anyone" sister. I was pleasantly surprised and Zipp is honestly my favorite I think my only negative opinion isn't exactly with the movie itself so much as with a recurring theme in the series where earth ponies are kinda done dirty by the writing team. Pegasi are fast fliers that will swoop in and take you away, unicorns will fry your brain with magic, and earth ponies.....are harmless stinky simpletons.... like they don't even have their strength, AJ in the previous series was supposedly stronger than even the average earth ponies, but weren't they all supposed to be strong and connected to the earth? Idk just a thought I also thought the unicorn superstition thing was kinda weird and out of pocket since it was an idea introduced late in the movie, but its not offensively bad or anything i just thought it was random. Still got a laugh out of me though!