Movie questions · 5:38am Feb 1st, 2018
I just went and watched the Movie again for about the fifth time. This time through, i noticed a couple of things that leaves me with questions...
The first is: In the initial attack, where is the Royal Guard? I checked right through the movie and you don't see ONE guard anywhere! Even Ronny and Donny, the two unicorns who normally stand by the Throne Dais, aren't there when Twilight walks in. They should have been all over the place! When Tempest's airship appeared, they should have been rolling out of the barracks, ready and willing to do damage to any threats! What did Celestia do? Give them all vacation time and sent them to Las Pegasus for the festival?
And after Twilight gets captured at Mount Aris, after the others get alerted that she's been taken and meet up with Capper and the Pirates again... how do they all get to Canterlot? The Pirates' ship is gone, they even tell the others that. So how do they get there so fast? And don't give me any horseapples about 'Plot Device'! I don't think Twilight's cobbled-together balloon would get them there that fast, but then again...?
Anypony else got any ideas? If Stellar had been there, things would have gone a lot differently, that I do know for sure...
I just watched it for the first time. First question on my mind was there's 6 ponies and 3 have wings and have proven themselves more than capable of carrying a pony each. Why didn't they just fly from the get-go?