@Lawful Girly  
Seriously, I don’t get why G1 gets so little respect. Or, well, used to get so little respect. Back in the day, G1 was considered no better than G3, despite its premise essentially being Barney and Friends living on a Warhammer 40K Death World, and thriving!
 
I mean, writing-wise, it is certainly not up to G4 standards, but then again no 80s cartoons are.

@when she felt her wings unfold  
Let’s hope so! After reading all these, I have a newfound respect for G1, when kids’ shows were allowed to be hardcore, and murder was totally cool if you did it for a good reason.

@Lawful Girly  
Haha yes. A hook to hang your own story like that is just too good to ignore! It’s teased that the real Lavender Lady is a storyteller herself, but we don’t know whether she’s into open endings too.
 
(Elsewhere: Heck Yeah Pony Scans, Arcane Flame)
 
Maybe the False Lavender Lady is really Majesty in disguise, testing her kingdom’s defenses. The real Lavender Lady is in on the act. I mean, it’s not as if Majesty can take a holiday from her sort of job. That bit’s an obvious cover story: where could you even go in Pony Land where everything isn’t trying to kill you?

@when she felt her wings unfold  
>”But the one story she would not tell, was the one about the person who had pretended to be her.  
>”Some stories are better with no ending.”

@Lawful Girly  
Am I missing some symbolism? Digging through a hundred “Language of Flowers” results…
 
You mean Spike’s threat? The writer clarifies that he’s making an empty threat straight away.

…Why are all these filled with horrible death and the implications thereof?