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Also. its over-analyzing time! incoming wall of text.


Ta-da! this is what happened when I start to analyses things...
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Bumping-double post. because I've done some editing and I want people to read it.
(in retrospect, I should of just double posted what I edited...)

Nice post kay ;D

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I am lazy =D

I think this has to be one of my favorite episodes, even though I can't help but nit-pick a few things:



Like I said, I know that's (almost) all pointless nitpicking. To balance that out, let me tell you what I like about the episode:


Also, now that the season is over, I figure now's a good time to look back on the season overall. It seems like the overarching theme of this season's Mane6-oriented episodes was exploring the opposite of what each character's Element stands for:

-Twilight's Element, Magic, could be interpreted as being about power and control. Twilight's episodes involve her being powerless ("It's About Time") and out of control ("Lesson Zero").
-Rarity's Element is Generosity, but her episodes spend a lot of time exploring her selfish side. Whether it be avoiding her friends to try and advance her own social status ("Sweet & Elite") or ignoring her sister to focus on her own wants and needs ("Sisterhooves Social"). Of course, they still bring it around and have her do the right thing in the end of each one.
-Applejack's all about Honesty, but her episodes involve secrecy ("The Last Roundup") and dishonesty (Flim and Flam in "The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000").
-Fluttershy key trait is Kindness, but her have her cross the line between being assertive and being a jerk ("Putting Your Hoof Down"), and refusing to help friend in need because she can't see past her own fear ("Hurricane Fluttershy"). Like with Rarity, she does the right thing in the end (though she still eats Pinkie's cake during "MMMyster on the Friendship Express." FLUTTERJERK).
-Pinkie Pie's Element is Laughter, but her episodes involved a lot of seriousness, whether it was Pinkie herself getting serious ("Baby Cakes," "MMMystery on the Friendship Express"), or just having to deal with someone who is chronically serious ("A Friend in Deed").
-As for Rainbow Dash...I guess my theory falls apart with her. Loyalty was touched upon in "May the Best Pet Win," since she chose Tank over the faster, flashier pets because he was the one who was loyal to her in her time of need. However, her other two episodes were more about her massive ego than about disloyalty. "The Mysterious Mare Do Well" was about not letting your good deeds for others go to your head (though I guess you could say her friends betrayed her a little to teach her a lesson), and "Read It and Weep" was about not letting pride stop you from openly enjoying something that makes you happy.

@Qallan
Are you telling me you've never had a friend where there was something that was a huge part of their life and they never told you about it? Even if you're totally open with your friends about everything, there's times where stuff just doesn't come up too often. Like Twilight Sparkle said, she doesn't get to see her brother that much anymore. Sounds like she may have only seen her brother once or twice since she moved to ponyville, if she saw him at all in that time.

It does seem quite out of character for the whole cast to ditch twilight in the wedding when you first watch it. But seriously, when someone's wedding day got ruined because some other person's accusations, and all those accusations got an explanation for why they are not true. Who are you going to side with? Keep in mind they don't know anything about the changelings, and they probably think no evil could get in the magic barrier that has tons of guards inside.

Twilight Sparkle overreacts and worries about stuff too much in quite a few episodes. The fact that she was suspicious of cadence does not surprise me at all. Pinkie's accusations made no sense whatsoever (except for the very end when she actually got it right, but at that point she had evidence), whereas Twilight's accusations have reasons behind them. If you knew someone awesome for a long time, then they suddenly insist on going by another name and say they don't remember you at all even though they spent a long time with you, you'd probably be suspicious too, along with the tons of other reasons to make her suspicious of cadence.

Changelings need to be subtle to get power. After they got in, I assume they were feeding off of some people off-screen so they could get away with just beating the crap out of everything because they already had more power than they know what they could with. The mane 6 are pretty good fighters (except fluttershy apparently), so they can hold out a little bit longer than the guards. However, I would agree that they should never reveal themselves and just farm all the people so they'd never have to worry about running out of love to feed on.

I think everyone was expecting the mane 6 to hurt each other. So I think they were just trying to throw the audience off by not being so predictable. However, they make it so one of them almost hits the other just so they actually remember that so it doesn't seem like some stupid thing they overlooked. Besides, just looking at the facial expressions should be enough for them to tell the difference apart from each other, they are good friends that hang out with each other a lot, whereas the changelings pretty much had the same facial expression.

As for Luna, one of 3 things
1. She was sleeping during the day, and she's a heavy sleeper. Her room is made out of tough stuff and/or in an area the changelings didn't think to go to so they couldn't get to her
2. She was busy kicking the crap out of the changelings off-screen.
3. She had to leave Canterlot on some special duty that day. She wouldn't be needed to guard for the wedding since the wedding would be over that day.



The Fluttershy eating the cake is likely a reference to all the crime mysteries where it'd be the cute and/or unexpected person commiting the crime.
It's stretching it a bit, but your theory doesn't quite fall apart with Rainbow Dash.


@Kayniner
TL:DR is "Gender roles in society are disappearing" mostly. With a little bit of "Hasbro thinks we should be ourselves".
I think society is getting to the point where people will accept other people for being different. It's not there yet, but I do believe MLP:FiM has sped it up for a lot of people. However there will always be places where people don't approve of the ways of others. It will be this way until everyone is able to have easy access to communicate with everyone else.

Again, let me say I'm really just being nitpicky for the heck of it. None of these points are enough to really take away my enjoyment of the episode.

-Regarding Twilight never mentioning Shining Armor, I just figured she would have been keen to introduce him to her friends or vice versa, or even just mention it. I guess the root of my complaint is just that all of a sudden Twilight happens to have a brother that nobody knew existed prior to this episode.

-I'm not saying they all should have sided with Twilight after she scared fake!Cadence off, but you'd think somebody would have stuck around to ask her what the heck was going on with her and try to help her work through her apparent issues with her brother getting married.

-What I was getting at with the whole wild accusation point was that Twilight, of all ponies, should know the importance of making accusations only when you can present solid evidence to back it up. Yeah, she personally was dead certain fake!Cadence was evil, but given how her friends already brushed her off once she probably shouldn't have assumed everyone would just take her word for it now. Also, it's funny how both the first and last episodes of the season shared the moral of "don't brush your friends off when they come to you with a concern."

-I guess I'm just curious why the plan was to have only Chrysalis infiltrate, yet have all the other changelings smash their face into Shining Armor's shield until Chrysalis brought the shield down.

-Regarding the lack of Mane 6 infighting, it's not that big of a complaint, it just would have been cool to see. But since apparently none of the regular changelings talk, either, I agree it'd be a stretch to make them fall for it.

Yeah I kinda expected at least one of the others to stay by Twilight too.

The evidence that Twilight had seemed pretty solid. I'm not really sure how much more evidence you'd need to prove someone was "evil in disguise" than that without other people witnessing it. There are ways to make evidence not seem like evidence, Chrysalis did a pretty good job at that.
Maybe I'm just missing something, and that I'm too sleepy right now.

I suppose she thinks that if you do a full on frontal assault with your minions, they wont expect an inside job to be done? =)