’Member when you called a red dragon Basil? <sarcasm>Good times.</sarcasm>

Improperly layered

@Phantom Rider
 
The end of Up, Up and Away did hint at it.
 
“Can I visit you, sometime?”
 
“The future is filled with possibilities. Until then, farewell!”
 
“So long Brightglow! I’ll find you… someday…”

@Phantom Rider  
Yep George Arthur Bloom also wrote The End of Flutter Valley; along with the majority of the episodes for Tales. He also pulled some strings and got some semi big name comic book writers (at the time) to write on this show actually.
 
Honestly on your second part, to me it seemed like some of the writers did have ideas going for this show, as it had way more continuity than a show like this would normally have. But they never got to do them because of its cancellation and likely some limitations of the show itself.

@furrypony  
@insert_pony_name
 
Also, this was written by George Arthur Bloom, who wrote the first two specials and movie (and I think The End of Flutter Valley.) You get the feeling that, used to writing about stuff like Tirek and Katrina and the Smooze, he was brought back to MLP and found the new series had no magic and a world just like this one, he decided “I’ll just say they’re telling a story and then write something original-series-ish.”
 
Also, I’ve always wondered if, had the series continued, there’d have been a payoff to the way that on the rare occasion that this stuff happens it’s always Patch and only Patch who sees it.

@insert_pony_name  
https://derpibooru.org/935575

MLP really has a lot of these “you know for kids’” moments…proving this ain’t no ordinary kids’ franchise.

@when she felt her wings unfold  
I’d always figured she might’ve been Brightglow’s daughter, though I couldn’t think of a good reason for her to have been left behind. (And yeah, Brightglow, not Dazzleglow. Brightglow was the one who actually talked to her.)
 
And yeah, something’s up with that orphanage.

@Phantom Rider  
Ancient alicorn hypothesis? She has hybrid DNA allowing her to see the marvellous and strange all around her. Holy moly, the clue’s even there in her name!
 
Something strange must have been going on at her orphanage. Another of their kids turned out to be the lost princess of a royal family (with (hmm!) sparkly manes and magical artifacts and even their own signature sound effect).

I always thought there was a reason for Patch being the only one to see this stuff. Keep in mind she was adopted from an orphanage, we don’t know where she came from. Even she doesn’t know it, but she’s probably a lot more than she seems.

@Takengrin Endmmar  
That a He, yes that is one thing G1 had. Males

@IceKitsune  
Somebody really needs to make an ”I Want To Believe” poster for them! Again, it’s only really Agent Mulder Patch who actually sees them. Agent Scully Bon Bon is busy avoiding puking at the time. For sure, everyone else sees the glowing lights/ufo though.
 
I like the ambiguity - you can read it both ways ☺

@when she felt her wings unfold  
I think the only Fantastical element you could say happened for sure is the Show ’n Glow Ponies/Aliens that showed up in Up, Up and Away. Personally I take all the fantastical elements as having happened as it makes the show just a bit more interesting.

@when she felt her wings unfold  
Say wut now? <~> you melted my brain- nah just kidding I understood what you said :p

@Takengrin Endmmar  
I guess they couldn’t show a little pony being barbecued to death in the very first episode without getting a rep like Watership Down. Though apparently a fall to his doom is fine if you don’t show the messy landing. See also G4’s Arimaspi.
 
Also this might all be happening in Patch’s head anyway. Tales is a slice-of-life modern times setting, not fantasy, so the toys’ magical elements are introduced via a single mane cast character’s plausibly deniable imagine spots.

@AH96  
Sey Wuuuuuuuuuuuut???

@insert_pony_name  
He survived the fire, but then he fell down a hole, and returned as a ghost many years later.

to anybody that actually watched this, did he really died?

you died no thanks obama

@Takengrin Endmmar  
Cartoon physics, and it’s actually a male pony by the way.

Also, how is she walking on 2 legs and HOW IS SHE FUCKING HOLDING THAT TORCH!?

Dragon’s Lair: Pony Edition

casual pony walking on 2 legs.

@Marvelous TK  
This is probably obscure, but I’m reminded of the time Destroyman electrocuted, shot, and lasered Travis Touchdown before his boss fight. >w<

okay that pony clearly got hit