What if, instead of creating her own friendship magic to solve the problem of Starswirl the Bearded’s unfinished spell, Twilight took the easy way out and just kept casting it until the ponies’ cutie marks were on the right way round again? Well I guess Princess Celestia would be all like “TWILIGHT I AM DISAPPOINT”. ‘Cause that’s kinda the magic equivalent of “solving” a Rubik’s Cube by taking it apart with a prybar and reassembling it.
(Actually, the episode implies that the spell mixes the Elements of Harmony randomly instead of just cycling them, and there’s actually a 119-to-1 chance against the spell actually putting them all the right way round at any time, but I ignored that because that would make the cartoon waaaaaaay too long!)
EDIT: Hiya, Equestria Daily!
EDIT 2: For the record, I loved “Magical Mystery Cure”, and no I don’t seriously think Twilight should have done what she does in this cartoon. It’s just a joke, people. :}
EDIT 3: That means I DON’T wanna hear about how you thought the episode should have gone this way because it would be sooo much better than that dumb ol’ “Twilight gets to grow awesome wings” ending. Keep it to yourself!
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Thanks, I hate being reminded she’s secretly Sleipnir
Does anyone else see this as a potential video game idea in the making????
But seriously though, chances of that being randomized was actually pretty high, especially when you’ve gotten the right combination, but accidentally cast it to mix up all over again.
And the ensuing trauma, its bad enough about the whole CMFIS during the first season (special note of Twilight suffering that on a grander scale in season 2).
“Must. Throw. Parties.”
(VOIP!)
“Oh, Twilight, darling, you won’t believe the dream I just -”
(VOIP!)
“Must. Buck. Apples.”
Normally I’m a pure-canon sort of guy, but…too much win not to enjoy this.
The big question is: does combination can repeat itself. Technically if it could not, at least you would had set limit for necessary number of iterations. But that could mean that the first combination can not be archived or all other combinations must be archived before for cycle to reset (that would imply some sort of pattern in changes).
Imagine if Twilight’s mark was factored in. That’d be 720 possible destiny-fuck-ups.
Yay for permutations!
Heartless but clever!