@Gian Song Yim  
You going have to deal with it

@Gian Song Yim  
Well… S2 will announce variety so yea. + There’s more surprises awaiting.  
Digital Series is kept as shorts in S1 beacuse it tested grounds what people like most.  

@Darth Shy  

 
Ngl I’m not that excited either.  
Probably because of the Storm King returning in any shape or form.  
I blame Hasbro for the excessive amount of shorts instead of specials @ regular episodes.  
Not as hyped as I was when the ’Digital Series first announced. :/

I just hope they include Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rarity and Spike and not just Sunset Shimmer, Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash or the special will suck without all the girls turning into ponies and Spike the dog into a dragon.

@Digital Seapony  
Sounds fair enough. :) Cool, we can agree on some points, and for the rest we can just agree to disagree.

@CronoM  
For the record, I never called my theory the simplest. That was Pudding Pone. I actually like your original explanation of why Sci-Twi is a unicorn more:  

It’s concise, and makes sense both in-universe and out-of-universe.
 
I can’t agree with you on the other 5 alicorns though. Just because Cadance’s backstory was never explained doesn’t mean she did nothing to earn her alicornhood. And Twilight’s importance in the history of Equestria is hardly faked, even if Celestia did have a large influence on her decisions at the beginning.
 
Then again, I admit my opinion is really biased, and I really don’t want to get into a full-blown argument about a plot point from almost six years ago, so I’m going to stop right here. Thank you for offering your view on the alicorn situation, you’ve made some really good points and it’s given me a few ideas for Flurry Heart fanfiction.

@Digital Seapony  
(_facepalm) The only example Rarity got that impression of was the dressed up method of Celestia making Twilight a princess. That was the POINT of having Rarity say that and not somebody like Luna or perhaps even Cadence. This is Rarity, she doesn’t know ANYTHING about alicornhood, the same as the audiance, so she comes from that conclusion from the don’t-question-it perspective of Twilight’s ascension. 0/5 deeper meaning, 1/5 faked importance.
 
And WHY is Flurry the first one? No seriously why? Introducing a rule just to immediately disregard it? doesn’t do much for your ‘simplest theory’ argument.
 
Most of the scenario’s you listed were artificial and subjectively implemented, they serve absolutely no greater meaning or consequence beyond the idea everyone already knows that Twilight is a brown noser and Celestia likes putting Twilight on a pedastal and will do anything to that end. It’s not even slightly transparent, it’s not subtle, and almost every fan at least knows about it, even if some die hard Twilight fans don’t like drawing attention to it. Sans Celestia interference, Twilight was meant to be 1 of 6 element bearers. Sure the Element of Magic is the final element in the provers of getting them ‘that makes it all complete’ like it says in the intro, but that’s it. Nothing more and nothing less. Absoltely no deeper meaning then that.
 
Normally we would look for a Watsonian conclusion only, but in this rare case we have to acknowledge the Doylist one since we, the fans, are painfully aware that the introduction of new princesses was financially mandated sans all Watsonian logic. Episodes regarding the first three princesses never even got to the cutting room floor, the writers acknowledged they failed at giving meaning to Twilight’s princesshood, and they decided to scrap ANY reason with Flurry.
 
Look, I know I’m not going to convince someone who goes by the tag “Princess Book Horse fan”, that’s obvious, but I’m only going to tell the truth with no bias. I don’t dislike Twilight, it’s just that Twilight’s “destiny” is as unsubtlely railroaded by Celestia as a playthrough of Final Fantasy 13.
 
Why is Scitwi not an alicorn and Flurry is, in Equestria? Ones a princess and one isn’t, it’s a simple theory as you can get. Yet it’s way more explanation then you will ever get from inshow for why Flurry is an exception.

@CronoM  

 
In The Crystalling, Part 1, Rarity said:  

 
Since all five alicorns that we know of were present in the room at the time and none of them bothered to correct her, it’s reasonable to assume that alicornhood having to be earned is very much canon (ignoring natural-born alicorns, but Flurry’s outright stated to be the first one).
 
@CronoM  

 
They didn’t really have to spell it out openly. Twilight’s confusion at the Tree of Harmony bearing a likeness of her cutie mark in Princess Twilight Sparkle, Part 2, complete with Twilight assuming the role of the Princess of Friendship in the season 4 finale, taking on her first student of friendship in season 5 and later starting Equestria’s first friendship school in season 8 shows that her getting wings was just the first major milestone in completing her destiny.
 
Of course, the transformation wasn’t as deep or meaningful at the end of season 3, but it’s gained a lot of meaning in retrospect.
 
@CronoM  

 
True enough, but we were looking for a Watsonian explanation, not a Doylist one.

@Pudding Pone  
Thats not an explanation, that’s a headcanon that goes AGAINST the facts.
 
What do I mean by that? It wasn’t “special or deep” since it was by design and for something arbitrary and in the long run a moral-a-day lesson, and it wasn’t “unique” because Flurry simply had to be born to get alicornhood.
 
Alicornhood being earned or have deeper meaning is 0/5 alicorns in terms of the pony show canon, so I have no idea what you’re talking about. Celestia, Luna, and Cadence have non existant backstories. Twilght got the only thing that could make her an alicorn on purpose from Celestia, so it wasn’t a trial with any objective deeper meening, but simply a very subjective mentor and a book with a subjective qualification.
 
Even if they DID try to hammer in a deeper meaning that tied with Twilight having the same mark as the tree, the fact is they DIDN’T. And to drive this point home that alicornhood has no deeper meaning in the main show, Flurry got alicornhood by being born a pony princess, and even according to Celestia’s canon reaction, it wasn’t a matter of having an alicorn mother EITHER.
 
So what in the world are you getting this “deeper meaning” nonsense coming from?
 
The Cadence “was a pegasi” story is by no means canon in the show at all, and Flurry cements the idea that there is no deeper meaning in alicornhood. Is Flurry an exception? Why? For a “simple” explanation, your idea is VERY convoluted.
 
At the very least, Sci-Twi had a unique, non-ordinary trial of heart(ex. fighting inner darkness that came from giving into great temptation) that wasn’t arranged by subjective design(ex. Celestia).
 
….
 
So what IS the simplest explanation?
 
-Sci-Twi is not a princess of Equestria, and would be mistaken for one as an alicorn.  
-Flurry IS a princess of Equestria, so she’s born an alicorn  
-Princesses sell more toys according to Hasbro, so waiting for a good script to make someone a princess has never been a priority.
 
See? Simple as it gets and also very, VERY likely to be true.

@Background Pony #2B97  
to Twilight

@CronoM  
??…Here’s a more simple less confusing explanation
 
@Digital Seapony  

@Twilight_Shimmer  
Facing ones inner demons > an abstract lesson/riddle she’ll forget many times after. (Regardless of other achievements, the trigger remains as rushed as the writers admitted it was, and nothing will change that) At the end of the day, the mlp universe favors Twilight Sparkle above everyone else.
 
The reason Flurry is an alicorn is nonexistant, it’s not because her mother is one according to Celestia’s statement.
 
The ONLY reason sci twi is not an alicorn while Flurry is, is because of authority. Alicorn=princess in Equestria, and the ramifications regarding Sci-Twi being an alicorn princess in Equestria are not the focus, despite the fact bronies could discuss it all day.
 
Of course, the even more real explanation is that they threw up their hand with Twilight, and threw up their hands even harder with Flurry. Twilight never earned anything definitive, and Flurry most certainly did not.

“Look over there! It’s something shiny!”

I love how we’re getting fanart of a movie that doesn’t even have an official title yet.
 
I’m also really glad that ponified Sci-Twi is a unicorn like Sunset. As much as I like alicorn Twilight, the transformation she underwent was a very unique process, and I feel like making Sci-Twi an alicorn by default would undermine the deeper meaning of that change.

we just wait

@Twilight_Shimmer  
Are you referring to Twilight or Sunset?

Makes more sense for her to be a Unicorn in my opinion. she has not earned the right to be an Alicorn yet I dont think

Why am I not as excited for this special as I probably should be?