Notes from the -- Spoilers · 5:12pm Nov 28th, 2015
Notes as I watch.
So, Starlight flies through self-levitation. There goes a lot of my headcanon. It really messes with our understanding of magic rules and theory.
Advanced time travel? Yeah. Alright then. Cool.
[Some Time Later]
TWILIGHT
STOP
STOP TOUCHING RAINBOW DASH
WHY ARE YOU BITING YOUR LOWER LIP AND MAKING BEDROOM EYES YOU ARE NOT HELPING
Aaaaaaaaaarrgghhhhhhh-
Wait, destroying a scroll Twilight's cast several times now stops her being able to cast the spell? But it's information. It's like sheet music.
Hell, ABBA never wrote any of their music down. What I'm saying here is, is Twilight worse at magic than Abba is at music?
Great. Now I'm singing "Waterloo" at all the in-the-past scenes...
Alright so that ended. It's interesting that Starlight never saw the results of her loops, because she never went to the present with Twilight. Instead she was reset by Twilight's recasting of the spell, so she never saw the results of her actions but could consistently maintain their--
Time travel hypothesizing is dumb. I'll stop now.
Instead on to my next question:
Starlight * Moondancer OTP. Yay or neigh?
Yay! Very yay, in fact.
... Now I'm expecting fanart of this. And I doubt the internet will fail me.
I'd ship it.
...Not that that's saying much.
Pretty sure Starlight showed up in "Amending Fences" to hint at her motivation, much as her appearance in "What About Discord?" foreshadowed her methods. So, yay.
And yeah, Starlight is kind of BS in terms of her magical strength.
No, the scroll and the map have formed a two-part artifact that transports ponies in time. Twilight just supplies it with power, she isn't casting a time travel spell again.
I ship it like freight on the Mississippi.
Rainbow Dash needed an adult so many times in today's episode.
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Pegasus kids really do have the crappiest supervision, don't they?
"Huh, looks like two superpowerful unicorns are having a battle over by that race the kids are running."
"Anypony dead yet?"
"Nah."
"Let them deal with it. It'll toughen the kids up. Valuable strategic thinking and all that."
3574616 Well, it's flight camp, probably has barely paid teenage counselors more interested in paying attention to each other than to the kids. Magic camp and dirt camp probably aren't much better.
So, I was a little pessimistic of Starlight's possible redemption, but it was actually done insanely well. As long as they learn from Equestria Girls (Sweet Celestia, did I just say that?) and make it clear that her road to friendship isn't all cut-and-dry, I'm all for this.
I think my biggest gripe about this episode was that Sombra doesn't get any new lines.
Yeah that weirded me out too. Although between her first appearance and this one its clear she's some flavor of magical prodigy.
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yeah, it didn't really mess with my headcannon since it's always been headcannon for me that self-levitation is possible but insanely hard. In the flavor of, if you're already that powerful there's probably better ways to achieve the same result.
Personally it was more BS that she's just randomly some sort of magical prodigy that was apparently never trained, never discovered, but has enough power to go toe to toe with an alicorn and fight her to a standstill because that's what the plot demanded.
When they say Stranger Danger, I'd never have expected Twilight to be the Stranger.
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I think Twilight is just terrible at fighting.
Oh, I can definitely ship that.
I can see them sympathizing over their past hatred of twilight and how friendship both hurt and saved them.
Also, magic study buddies.