Change is natural

Just noticed this line from the last episode, spoken by Applejack:
"Change is natural, like the seasons."

Hello? You change the seasons manually!

Comments

[Singularity Dream]

Yes, but they consider that natural.

[Eruantalon]

I'm starting to think a whole lot of things in Equestria changed sometime around when the Elements were returned to the Tree. Maybe seasons do change naturally now.

[Olden Bronie]

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That is very true!

[Luna Aeterna Solutae]

The changing of seasons is no less natural/normal if it happens manually or automatically.

[PhycoKrusk]

They... they do change them manually!

Art is a lie!

NOTHING IS REAL

[FanOfMostEverything]

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What 5166147 said.

Applejack: The Everfree Forest just ain't natural. The plants grow...
Fluttershy: Animals care for themselves...
Rainbow Dash: And the clouds move...
Applejack, Fluttershy, and Rainbow Dash: All on their own!

[Herald of Opera]

The distinction between natural and artificial stopped making sense sometime around the invention of dogs.

[WhitewolfStormrunner]

5166237 Very true and very well put.

[PhycoKrusk]

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That implies that for Equestrians, things that are “natural” are things that they induce to happen, rather than things that happen of their own accord.

On the one hand, that either doesn’t explain aging, or makes some terrifying implications about life and death (specifically that pony souls are finite and need to be recycled).

On the other, it explains why no one was terribly upset that Starlight mind-controlled them, which is at least as terrifying.

[bahatumay]

Then again, if they didn’t change the seasons and it was winter all year round, that would be pretty unnatural.