Just thought of this. · 6:43pm Aug 25th, 2023
So this was the second funniest part of the episode, but this is a party, right? Huge Zephyr Heights gathering?
Wouldn't this be a pretty big "the royals can't fly!" moment for the spectators below?
So this was the second funniest part of the episode, but this is a party, right? Huge Zephyr Heights gathering?
Wouldn't this be a pretty big "the royals can't fly!" moment for the spectators below?
I imagine the Press Office span a story that the sisters were tired and thus not using their wings. After all, as CoganAir Flight 3407 demonstrated, trying to fly whilst tired usually ends in disaster.
Queen Haven probably spun this as her kids being adorably foalish to her subjects, and you know how adorable foals can be.
The reveal of the lie during the film was probably next to impossible to spin into anything that could help keep up the lie.
I would think this could easily be explained as 'foals being foals'.
Depends on a couple of things:
1) How high up they are. If they're high enough, their subjects might not be able to see the details (despite me liking to think that pegasi should have pretty good eyesight if they're a flighted species.
2) Unless they've already been rigging strings to Pipp and getting her in on the charade, Haven could say that she's too young and hasn't gotten the hang of flying yet.
3) There's a difference between being strong enough to keep yourself aloft and being strong enough to carry a struggling passenger (seriously Pipp, do you want your sister to lose her grip?). That could be an excuse, for Zipp to use that balloon for the "extra" lift.
4) And on that note, I could easily imagine Pipp coming back crying to her mother, telling her everything, and Haven being livid with Zipp. What if she had dropped her sister?! What if the balloon or the strings broke, and they both fell to their deaths?! And, OH MY HOOFNESS, if that happened, there'd be no way the pegasi wouldn't realize it was all a sham! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!
... And I'm not even a parent.
Then again, as kids do, Zipp could swear Pipp to secrecy using any number of scare tactics. Probably why Haven doesn't seem to remember it.
It could’ve been written off as them not learning to fly yet.
I'm more concerned with how they got down...
Queen Haven: "They are adopted!"
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Thought it was established that Zipp could glide.
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True... still a long way down though
They could probably just argue that they’re too young to fly yet, especially Pipp since she is the younger sibling.
Maybe they just thought it was friggin' cute foals being friggin' cute.