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

@Background Pony #DC1E  
I don’t ship them, I think they’re old friends because of how they interact with each other and their history.

@Villain Pony  
Considering I know of the archetype you’re referring to, I have to say that Maud is in fact a fairly unique spin upon the Rei archetype. For one, her monotone is consistently played for laughs instead of drama, and she has no tragic backstory. And she is in no way ever presented as a waif.

@Background Pony #DC1E  
S01 already showed they at least were familiar with each other during their flying academy days.
 
That’s already something better than the current era of “It happened offscreen” stuff.

@EotD  
Their history is that they’re both pegasi and saw each other at some point in their childhoods, everything else can be chocked up to natural dynamics between friends of differing personalities.

@Anonycat  
But it actually didn’t, they never said a single word to each other and they were separated almost immediately afterward.

@Background Pony #DC1E  
Yeah they were friends though when they were fillies, this has been established in multiple flashbacks and references in the series.

@Background Pony #DC1E  
As I said, it wasn’t much but at least was something concrete.

@Wiimeiser  
So implication is no longer allowed? Everything needs confirmation?
 
Admittedly, with the whole “AJ’s parents may be alive” thing, DHX may have lost all rights to use subtext. We’ll wait and see.

@Background Pony #DC1E  
… Did you really just try to bait us?

@EotD  
What flashbacks and references are you talking about? Because I don’t remember a single flashback to them being friends as children ever.
 
@Anonycat  
But it wasn’t concrete, they were just near each other at some point in the past and anything else is offscreen speculation.

@Darth Sonic  
Of course not…
 
Did it work?

@Background Pony #DC1E  
Sonic Rainboom, Cutie Mark Chronicles, The Cutie Remark, Newbie Dash.

@EotD  
Didn’t show their past, didn’t interact, didn’t interact, didn’t show their past.

So, the season is only going to have 5 songs and they already used one.  
I suppose the next song will be used for Pinkie and Maud’s episode, and Rarity/SBelle episode will use another.
 
That only leaves 2 more.

@Anonycat  
You forgot the apple parents song that was showed off at a convention.

@Anonycat  
@Background Pony #DC1E  
Then I assume the last song will be in the finale.

Did everyone forget how Shy’s parents and brother were already quite familiar with Dash, and implied her and Shy were close friends for years?

@Darth Sonic  

 
Still. Three. Episodes. Three. And no Celestia ep. Just, why?

@Wiimeiser  
It better be an incredible song to compensate for everything, then.
 
 
@PonyPon  
I was just sayinbg that S01 already showed how these two already were familiar with each other during their childhood.

@Anonycat  
Yeah, but apparently that’s being waved off.

@Villain Pony  
At this point it could the same reason Babs isn’t coming back for all we know…
 
@Anonycat  
Considering the guy who writes and composes 97.54418% of the show’s music is up to his pinnas in orchestral farts, who knows?

@Wiimeiser  
hopefully a villain song, this show has had a surprising dearth of those.

@Wiimeiser  
Ok, explain this to me. I keep seeing people saying ponies like Lightning Dust and Babs Seed ain’t coming back…Why?

@LeoNero  
VA problems IIRC.

Just recently watched the first few episodes.
 
5 songs total with THAT S7 premier?
 
Is it just me, or are they spinning their wheels more blatently this season? The trailer we saw was literally just Twilight’s anxiety fanfiction that didn’t even amount to anything.(Reminds me when they originally psyched us out with Tirek’s trailer showing him being seriously intimidating, instead of a meathead textbook badguy like he was in every other scene).
 
I just can’t help but feel that they are holding back the show a ton from progressing with more involved story and character arcs because they are waiting on the movie to ‘blow us away’. I’m not saying S7 is going to be all bad, I mean, S6 had Gauntlet of Fire, and this season has more of Trixie being Trixie as well as being the Joseph Joestar to Starlight’s Ceasar Zeppeli. I’m just saying its worrisome for the current episode quality overall if they are simply waiting one more season for the show to not have the “Starlight and friends show” as the main attraction, with the Mane 6 only for the side episodes.
 
Also, can we get Luna to fact-check Celestia’s anxieties (after the fact of course) of sending her to Ponyville? Season 3’s premier established Luna knew all too well Celestia was RELYING on Twilight’s hyper dependency to be a big problem for her plan to make her a princess, something Luna was totally against. That one scene shows how much Celestia hides her true intentions from the face she shows Twilight. (not to mention Celestia’s spiel about waiting on sending Twilight to Ponyville doesn’t really match with the whole scenario being used for her to be sent there at the right place so Luna could be turned back from Nightmare Moon. Retcon or unreliable/untrustworthy narrator scenario?)
 
The second episode wasn’t too bad, even though it dragged on in places. Basically, Trixie’s magic is pretty potent with real instruction, and Starlight being a repressed nutbar like Twilight, instead of verbally sparring with what remains of her S5 wit, isn’t going to work out for her with her anger filled past. Heck it barely works for Twilight at all.
 
Also, I’m pretty sure Trixie throwing the l-word so intimately, with that speech she gave Starlight, was just a hop, skip and a jump from a proposal speech. Are we positive they’re not already dating? Like, they probably aren’t, I’m not much of a shipper, but I can’t rule it out entirely.