AC97
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They were gathered around the mirror waiting for _something_ to come through, at a chokepoint (only one way in, with the mirror), so they couldn't be attacked in their sleep... and it's possibly optimistic for their combined might to overwhelm three alicorns, and Discord was free at that point in time, worst case scenario (not that she could've known him to be free... then again, she already knew about things she shouldn't in that movie).
>>884330p
...and annoyingly, we didn't get to see if Snips and Snails had any real special abilities other than flying in their changed forms, with how quickly they were collectively defeated.
If S9 was anything to go by, Cadance could quite possibly just purge active mind control with the Crystal Heart, if she managed to get to it, just like she did with Sombra and everyone he brainwashed in the Crystal Empire, even without it being supercharged like in S3's premiere.
The main gripe though, regarding the script, is that she said "teenage army," not something like "these pitiful teenagers are _only_ the beginning," because the latter would've sounded more imposing.
They were gathered around the mirror waiting for _something_ to come through, at a chokepoint (only one way in, with the mirror), so they couldn't be attacked in their sleep... and it's possibly optimistic for their combined might to overwhelm three alicorns, and Discord was free at that point in time, worst case scenario (not that she could've known him to be free... then again, she already knew about things she shouldn't in that movie).
>>884330p
...and annoyingly, we didn't get to see if Snips and Snails had any real special abilities other than flying in their changed forms, with how quickly they were collectively defeated.
If S9 was anything to go by, Cadance could quite possibly just purge active mind control with the Crystal Heart, if she managed to get to it, just like she did with Sombra and everyone he brainwashed in the Crystal Empire, even without it being supercharged like in S3's premiere.
The main gripe though, regarding the script, is that she said "teenage army," not something like "these pitiful teenagers are _only_ the beginning," because the latter would've sounded more imposing.