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“Not that I’m complaining about spending time with you but the stack of movies you have set aside for tonight seems….” Celestia began.
“Like an insurmountable mountain?” Twilight suggested, as she looked over several large stacks of movie reels. “It won’t be finished by tonight as there’s too many to watch in the span of a single night however the sooner we can finish all of them the better.”
Celestia shook her head and looked towards her pacing marefriend who was inspecting everything over before the movie marathon began, “Remind me again why you decided to create what might be the longest movie marathon ever conceived?”
“Simple! Research and data points are a must when one is trying to understand the proper categorization of every film the library now has.” Twilight said as she lifted over a tightly rolled up checklist and a massive notebook.
“The categories suggested by their labels are more than sufficient Twilight; there is no need to dive through every possible film. Perhaps we could choose two or three to watch and relax with.” Celestia suggested.
Twilight gave a brief shake of her head, “We could but the research could be useful, besides we’re not watching every single film. Well, we’re not watching every film from start to finish. We’re watching selective sections within every film to build a better sample of the quality and genre of films.”
Celestia sighed and sat down in front of the screen, “That’s a relief, since the task at hoof seems daunting.”
“Nonsense, it will be fun!” Twilight said as she used her magic to bring out copious amounts of popcorn and cake. She walked over to sit down next to Celestia,. “Besides it would be good to spend some time together.”
Many hours later.
“That was film number nineteen of the pile labelled as B-Movies although I often fail to see their labialization as being accurate, many seem to be of good quality in comparison to those labelled as A-Movies.” Twilight announced.
Celestia looked over at the pile and it looked to be no shorter than when they began…. about five or six hours ago by the look of the depleted snacks littered on the floor.
“The B-Movies have been getting better; I believe the terminology refers now more to their lower budget in comparison to A-Movies. I remember viewing a few early B-Movies and those films needed quite a greater deal of polish.” Celestia said.
Twilight nodded, “That fits with the information I have gathered on each film, a lower budget in general when compared to A-Movies.”
“How many did you plan we would get through tonight?” Celestia asked in a slightly weary tone, watching movies with someone can be enjoyable but the sheer number they were attempting to go through was daunting.
Twilight reviewed her checklist, “Fifty was the initial projected estimate for tonight but some of these have been quite good and the odd technical issues we had which reduced our projected numbers so I may need to adjust the number we watch in the next session.”
Twilight lifted up a reel, “I would say let’s go for one more tonight to round out to twenty, the same number of A-Movies we already watched.” Twilight checked the label, “Cooking with Glorious Sunrise and Dusky Brilliance. Sounds like a simple movie although….” Twilight inspected it closer, “It’s rated M and from what information I could find the director was unknown and the budget was quite low although the film received fairly good reviews.”
Celestia froze at the movie’s title, “Perhaps Twilight,” she began quietly, “we could watch something different.”
“Oh? Is something wrong with this one? It sounds to be a good movie although I’m not entirely certain about the r….” Twilight paused as her mind finally caught up and put the pieces together.
Twilight blushed, “Ah. That sort of movie…. Okay! Next movie from the stack then,” Twilight hastily added as rummaged around the stack for her next film.
Celestia breathed a sigh of relief when she watched Twilight look for another movie, later she resolved to have the entire series of movies starring Glorious Sunrise and Dusky Brilliance burned or buried. Perhaps sent to the Sun? Celestia shook her head trying to forget the movie series that was the result of a drunken night with Luna, several Guards, and a few civilians.
Author's Note
Celestia's drunken night happened not too long after Luna returned from the Moon (something about celebrating their reunion), the movie series was sparked by some happenstance than an intentional desire to make a movie. Unfortunately said series just continued on despite Celestia's attempts to destroy them.