Season 7 Episode Discussion [Speculation, Discussion, Spoilers] (SPOILER YOUR LEAKS)

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I’m really hoping that this weeks episode doesn’t suffer from the Princess Spike trope. Like a whole bunch of stuff happening out of Twilight’s control and she gets blamed for it all.
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Flurry’s not even one, let alone ten. Who knows what the minimum age is in Equestria, but, legally speaking, she legally cannot be blamed for any of her actions. If she kills somepony, by law it’d be Twilight getting the full punishment.
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@Wiimeiser  
I have no idea what to expect from the episode, but the absolute worst possible scenario is Twilight trying her absolute best to keep Flurry under control, with Flurry constantly wrecking stuff in the process. Then once Twilight finally catches her, Shining and Cadence walk around the corner at the very last second and says some shit like, “How could you be so irresponsible taking care of our baby!?”
 
I know the show would never go in that direction, but if the episode doesn’t pull anything like that maybe it could be “meh” at best. I don’t know, I’m just not expecting that much.
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Celestia knows twilight would never grow away from her that easily because twilight’s an incurable brown noser and celestia is not an idiot.
 
Isn’t element of harmony related foresight kind of a foregone conclusion now? Tracing the elements’ return back to RD is easy enough with her intelligence and power, but Celestia knew the other 4 were elements without ever laying eyes on them.
 
If the morality elements chosen by harmony itself weren’t able to befriend twilight and defeat the odds, nothing could save equestria anyway. While she will help out a little, it’s not her desire to micromanage the mane 6’s path as heroes, they’ve already been chosen by power and fate mostly beyond her. Her personal agenda to turn twilight into a perfect princess? That is her laser focus.
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So, I don’t wanna derail anyone, but Twilight’s fantasy of Star and Sunburst working together to make a clock tick until a baby popped out was in the same episode Twilight had to deal with the threat of empty nest syndrome from her pseudo-adopted daughter.
 
It might be my perverted mind, but it’s looking more and more like Twilight is in great subconscious and instinctual thirst of a romantic leading to family life. I guess what you call a personal life.
 
Which I’m sure the next episode will cure outright.
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I said her feelings were irrational. It has nothing to do with her intellect. No matter how sure of her predictions and knowledge of things it looks like she is, the episode was suggesting that in such a pivotal case as that one, there’s no way to be sure of anything. How much she cared for twilight blinded her. Because there’s always that chance things could go awry, that chance that the experience changes Twilight more than she could forsee.
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Just noticed Andrea Libman retweeted a tweet from G.M. Berrow about how excited she is for her episode to air.
 
Hopefully this means Berrow’s episode is a Pinkie Pie one.
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I get the feeling the Starlight and Sunburst scenario in Twilight’s fantasy in Celestial Advice was an intended but ultimately scrapped scenario, in favour of Starlight staying in Ponyville.
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Just noticed Andrea Libman retweeted a tweet from G.M. Berrow about how excited she is for her episode to air.
Hopefully this means Berrow’s episode is a Pinkie Pie one.
 
Yeah no. I’d rather she make that Celestia episode that she could of gave us instead of another pinkie pie episode m
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Blinded her into doing…what? Not encouraging her to socialize at all in canterlot and not sending her to ponyville sooner…making her completely hyperdependent and easily manipulated just like Celestia wanted?
 
Yes, emotions can be irrational, but they also reflect the person and the person it’s directed to. Pick a personality. Is she the ‘overprotective type that constantly worries about being important to twilight’ that she wants twilight to believe, or is she the person ‘obsessed with Twilight and has manipulated her countless times into pursuing a certain course of action because she knows perfectly how over reliant she is’?
 
Only Celestia’s word points to the former, words we already know is constantly manipulative, and the shows canon suggests the latter.
 
Celestia didn’t reject luna’s council when the crystal empire returned because she was so concerned with staying in twilight’s life that an inane test risking thousands was a logical step in making her a princess and ensuring they were close. That’s insane. She rejected luna’s council because she was completely obsessed with the idea of making twilight the perfect princess that the trial and all the lives risked _felt necessary in her mind_ , and Celestia RELIED on twilight’s obsession to follow her’s orders to the point where it actually was a struggle/trial to choose lives over obedience.
The same level of reliance and closeness that she supposedly is so insecure about losing is the same level of reliance celestia constantly manipulates to become a perfect princess with incredible ease? Celestia can’t be two people, dude. She has no motivation to tell the truth, the same way she will never tell twilight she’s unhealthily hyperdependent.
 
Which brings Celestia’s manipulations to their inevitable FAILURE. To push so much praise and responsibility on twilight, she thought she’d gain some selfdriven confidence after so much forced achievements. Instead of a natural leader, she’s still a completely expection reliant wreck.
 
 
@Sunset’s Minion  
Exactly. She tried to mold her and mold her into a perfect princess, but it never occurred to celestia that the process would result in twilight becoming an eagerly moldable person for good.
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Hmm, I noticed Starlight has been added to the mane 6 group shot on Amazon/itunes for season 7. She wasn’t there in season 6. I wonder if there’s some significance to this, like even greater focus or something.
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