@Background Pony #7F3A  
Good, that’s a shitty idea anyway.

@Philosopher Stone
 
@OptimusPrimevil
 
Oh god it’s already happening, RIP pictures and stories of the Dazzlings in various time periods, we haven’t even had Dazzling pilgrims yet to explain how they got to America.

@Background Pony #2D51  
well… if indeed the dazzlings are 1000 years old and the amulets/emotion stealing are the ones keeping them alive/young, would that mean the ending of rainbow rocks gave the dazzlings a death sentence?
 
something to think about.

@Background Pony #2D51  
Actually that ending fits to many fan’s headcannons so it wouldn’t be because of his writing. But Nightmare moon’s arc pretty much ruins my headcannon so i don’t know.

I just pray enough people, especially artists and writers, don’t accept this as canon. I don’t want to live in a future where no one makes art or stories about the Dazzlings being on Earth for 1000 years because of Ted’s shitty writing.

The real reason they went forward in time is because of  

Something tells me the next two fiendships (weither they’re good or bad) will be the most jarring.

@Background Pony #7944  
Nothing in that explanation contradicts the idea there was a mistake on his part. If he didn’t choose the date, fate did for reasons that work with the aforementioned explanation.

@Josh103  
You’re right to have those beliefs, the nightmare moon preview is not looking very promising.

Just like that, my hopes for this series is gone. It’s a tiny bit alive.

@martianmister  
It makes more sense for them to be discussing it after a month than after 1000 years. After a month they’d still be pissed about being banished, after 1000 years they’d be jaded to it. Sure, they’d still be excited for a chance to get their magic back, but they wouldn’t be so angry about the loss.

@Background Pony #7944  
They’re talking about things they’re already know, that’s exposition and nothing more. Let’s pretend they’re there for a month: why would Aria question Adagio about things she should know by that point?

@Background Pony #A5CE  
Just because it was likely there for exposition doesn’t mean it can just be automatically written off. It’s still a part of the movie, and while not outright stating something, it does give that impression.

@Background Human
 
My interpretation is that, knowing the Sirens would be without magic, Starswirl sent them to a time period where he thought it would be easier for them to fit in.
 
If 1000 years ago in humanland is anything like in real life, it’s probably not the safest time period for 3 teenage girls to live.

So that answers that. Even though I was in the thousand-year camp before, I’m okay with this. Whatever spell Star Swirl used to toss the Sirens out clearly wasn’t part of the mirror’s usual operation, and if you have the ability to throw your enemies forward in time while sending them to another world, why wouldn’t you? It gives you a chance to work on a more permanent solution in their absence–or at least to make preparations like, I don’t know, putting up a warning sign about not taking magical devices through the mirror.

@Ninoyiya
 
I attribute that more to exposition just for the sake of explanation, it doesn’t really imply much about when they were banished but just kind of explains what they’re doing and why it isn’t working to clue the audience in without the need for text or a narrator.

@Background Pony #A5CE
 
I dunno… For the first point, you can kind of infer that it hasn’t really been all that long since they were banished, based on what Adagio and Aria say.

@martianmister  
The last point is debatable since they never explicitly say how they were banished, but the mirror was still a pretty stupid edition that just raises was more continuity breaking questions then it answers. You’re other two points are spot on though.

@martianmister
 
I don’t believe it’s ever been specifically stated that Starswirl used a portal to banish them, just that he found a way to do it.

@Stotter  
But you’re making it needlessly complicated. Starswirl is established to work with time spells, and to make mistakes. Thats a much simpler explanation.

@Background Pony #7944  
So from the Sirens perspective, they’ve only been there a little longer than Sunset.

@Background Pony #7944  
Yes, I just explained how. 1000 years for ponies, shorter amount for humans.

@Stotter  
Still, seems like they only recently arrived. They’d be more used to the place if they’d been there 1000 years.