Season 5 episode discussion (Stream & episode links in first post)

@Cirrus Light  
I had an idea for a fic that’d involve ponies playing baseball. Of course, my idea would’ve had the foals going up against a rival team from Hoofington and would’ve had nothing to do with the M6.

@Crystal Neighybánya  
I’d say they’re more fillies than foals. As I understand it foal = baby, filly = girl, mare = woman.

@Cirrus Light  
Well, there were going to be colts on the team, so I couldn’t just call them all fillies.

@Cirrus Light  

 
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@Cirrus Light  

 
Unless the love in question is unrequited or lost.

So what did you guys think of Cutie mark magic not being used in season 5?

@apegacine
 
Thank god they didn’t; those toys are UGLY.

@apegacine  
What do you mean, we saw the CMC get their marks.
 
That counts, right?

@Jarkes  
I know not what is being referred to, here :p

@Cirrus Light  
this

@Nutkicker12  
Looks like she got Cutie Pox xD

I wouldn’t be surprised if the concept didn’t exactly work, I mean, they’ve already released Rainbow Power last year, and it already featured the “Cutie Pox” design on the legs. To bring it in S5 would had been kind of a step backwards. Also, cutie pox.

I noticed how the CMC were completely absent from all the alternate timelines in the finale… implications?

@SeraphimDawn
 
Maybe they got conscripted into that was in Sombras timeline? Actually I wonder what became of that strong filly there too.
 
I have nothing for the Chrysalis timeline.

@Jades  
Mythwise, they go for the kids first.

@SeraphimDawn  
in the first alt timeline even fillies were recruited for the cause so maybe they were in some filly/colt training camps. the second one had changelings and the big sisters/sister figure of the cmc were impersonated by them which would imply all six of them were captured and are being feasted upon. while the nightmare moon one, I wouldn’t be surprised if they were living a regular life with NMM as ruler instead. as for the others, well we didn’t get to properly see anything beyond what happened to get a grasp on any pony else’s life, so bleh.

@PonyPon
 
I can’t see them actually killing the kids though. Brainwashing on the other hand I can totally see.

@SeraphimDawn
 
And as I noted when I first saw the finale, Shining Armor and Cadance were nowhere to be seen in any of the timelines, which is particularly odd in the Changeling and Sombra timelines, where you’d think they’d have a significant role in the war efforts there. Perhaps in those timelines they were the first casualties…

@Jades  
I never said they killed them.
 
No one did.

@Jarkes
 
What confuses me in those Timelines was that Twilight was acting like they were responsible for defeating them alone.
 
 
@PonyPon
 
My bad then. A bad assumption on my part.

Luna was absent in most of them too.

@SeraphimDawn
 
Yeah, not counting the Nightmare Moon one, the only other one we saw her in was the Discord one.

@Jarkes  
Another thing. If the Mane 6 never met and the EoH were never brought together. Why wasn’t Nightmare Moon present in all timelines? Since she was the initial and primary threat at the beginning of the series, shouldn’t she be the one dominant in most if not all timelines?

@SeraphimDawn  
I guess it’s open-ended as to what could have happened to her.
 
Re-imprisoned?  
Forcibly depowered?  
Perhaps even beaten once and for all, for good.

@SeraphimDawn
 
(shrugs) Perhaps another group of 6 ponies defeated Nightmare Moon and were able to beat every other threat except for whichever one took over in each timeline…