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@Background Pony #FE5E  
Well she is popular now, besides, someone gotta rebuild her home.

G5 episode idea:
 
Sunny’s smoothie business gets bought out by a huge conglomerate and gives Sunny a big sum of money, but Sunny isn’t pleased with the changes made to her smoothie business.

When Sunny finds out that Phyllis put a contract out on her father and confronts her on it, Phyllis goes on a rant about how she HAD to, because Argyle was a threat to the status quo, and if earth ponies no longer feared pegasi and unicorns, they wouldn’t buy her products, which meant that Canterlogic would go out of business, which meant that the entire town would collapse economically.

@Fwelin  
I don’t imagine they’d really go into detail in later installments, but even just from what we’ve seen in the movie it appears that peace and harmony even lasted through the beginning of this new era, since the abandoned station at Zephyr Heights had travel posters for Maretime Bay and Bridlewood Forest featuring all 3 kinds of ponies on each.

@Myoozik  
From what I can tell, all the magic was sealed inside them. Probably to stop windigo attacks

I’m glad that by the end, the crystals were actually useful instead of just being generic macguffins. I knew that the real link to bring all races together was themselves talking it over all along, but I never expected that the unicorn, pegasus and earth pony crystals would be of value.

@Phoenixflambe  
Which part of my post are you talking about?

@Background Pony #9485
 
She might not be inclined to put the same effort into learning magic that Twilight did, but it’s not at all implausible that she’d be at least moderately curious about spells beyond telekinesis.
 
 
@ichiban iceychan 1517
 
Or at the very least shenanigans along the lines of “All Bottled Up”.

After seeing the G5 movie, I’m cautiously optimistic. If they actually cover the topic in the later installments, I hope that Twilight’s Equestria got at least a millennium of peace and harmony before whatever happened went down.
 
I’m hoping Sunny’s horn and wings are temporary, maybe coming back every once in a while in special moments. They look like magical constructs and I doubt they’d change the main character design this early, so I think there’s a pretty good chance. I’d be fine if she manages to get a proper set later, though.

@Myoozik  
I was able to get a chuckle out of the ponified bran names and parodies too X)

@Myoozik  

 
Anyone feel the same way?

@DoctorWTF
 
@Background Pony #9485  
i imagine Izzy trying to do advanced magic would result in a lot of visits from the fire department

@DoctorWTF  
I can’t see Izzy being interested in advanced magic. She seems more like Rarity, who’d be more interested in learning magic that helps with her talents. Maybe a few other spells like lasers or (tiny) shield depending on how “adventurous” G5 will be.

@Background Pony #9485  

 
One would expect that if they’d created the crystals in anticipation of all the magic going away, somepony would have thought to archive the collective magical knowledge of ponykind somewhere. Though even then, it would take a hell of a long time for the unicorns to get back into the swing of things - Twilight and Starlight each studied and practiced for over a decade to get to what we saw. We’d be ready for G6 by the time they’re ready to open the first new magic school.
 
Either way, seeing Izzy try practicing advanced magic could be quite amusing.

@Kiryu-Chan  
Ah.

@ichiban iceychan 1517  
On that second point, there could’ve been a short scene at the end consisting of Sprout being saddled with litter duty and having to pick up a smoothie cup discarded by the pony he stole the smoothie and cookies from during Sunny’s song, all as a way to show he did get punished and to have a nice callback to the movie’s opening scenes.

@Mikey  
The fact that it’s mainly existed to compete with Monster High, and honestly given that I wound up enjoying it, all that comparison ever did was convince me that Monster High wasn’t that bad

For me, some of the transitions were weird. Like why after one failed attempt at uniting the crystals Sunny goes through a heroic bsod? I know there’s a “hero’s lowest point and they rise above it” plot and all, but it didn’t make sense to me. Also, I have to question how the unicorns and pegasi were able to reach Maretime Bay so fast and yet somehow weren’t able to catch up to Sunny and Hitch, and leave enough time for Sunny to discover the third crystal and meet dictator Sprout again?

Well, they pulled it off.
 
The writers made Sunny an activist without making her come off as self-righteous.

@Background Pony #CF24  
I never really got into EQG, so I’m not really sure what you mean by cynicism.

@EquusStorm  
Seems like a lot of people really want g4 back, but don’t see it as they ask for things that g4 already did or failed to do.

But apart from these 2 issues i can’t thin of an other major flaws or anything, other then i wish the movie was just a little bit longer to fill in these issues.

I think i only have about 2 big complaints about the movie, most of the other stuff is just personal or nitpicks.
 
But if i were to change 2 things i would have expanded on the falling out that Pipp had with Zipp after her performance got ruined and the fact that the royals got outed as being fakes. I felt that didn’t really go anywhere and Pipp just seemed to switch to instantly being happy and pals with everyone during the campfire scene. Would have prefered to see both her and zipp still bickering before both of them apologise and become friends again
 
Second issue i would have changed was having Sprout get some sort of ACTUAL punishment at the end of the movie instead of just him getting away without a slap on the wrist. Like just throw him in jail, fire him as deputy, hell even just have him be stuck picking up litter and doing community service for the rest of the series!

Also I’m seeing a lot of what I was afraid I would see (though completely expected) now that G5 is started - attempts to drag the convoluted and overly complex lore of G4, which ended two years ago, into a new generation; I know it’s the same world technically but I figure a not-insignificant chunk of the fandom is gonna spend all of G5 complaining about what no-longer-relevant stuff from G4 should or should not be dragged into a new generation instead of enjoying it as is. To each their own I guess, if that’s what makes em happy.

@Background Pony #121A  
Could make a good crossover event with G4.