My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2/E20 Its About Time/YMMV: Difference between revisions

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** Well, Fluttershy did said next time she would like to carry the balloons. So there was a little assertiveness.

** Or maybe Fluttershy still felt guilty over the [[Reason You Suck Speech]] she gave to Pinkie (and Rarity too, only she wasn't around at the time).

** A bonus rejoicing as the episode had a good amount of screen time with Spike who was really lacking in past episodes.

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Some fans suspect one was loaded and placed on the wall with the hourglass at the end.

* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: Of the nitpicky type: "Pegasus" in Latin-based languages is a masculine term, and thus the city should have been "Los Pegasus" instead of "Las Pegasus" (Spanish male plural instead of female plural). That would have still worked as a punny take on Los Angeles, but they were clearly wording it as a play on Las Vegas. Of course, in a world where females seem to outnumber males, it could be justified in that fashion.

* [[Fanfic Fuel]]: A maximum-security pit where the most evil creatures are imprisoned? Let's have ''just one'' of those evil creatures escape...

** With one huge scary monster which is supposed to keep them there. Cue [[Kaiju]]-like duels over Canterlot and Manehatten. Come on, sing with me: ''Cerberus is friend to all the fillies..''

*** And ''Pinkie'' was let in?

*** At least she wasn't the one eating ice cream.

*** Twilight wanted information on the cause of a future disaster. Pinkie tells her about a future birthday present instead. Wouldn't it be ''very'' Pinkie-like if she were more on target than anyone realized?

** Another non-Ponyville town, [[Los Angeles|Las]] [[Viva Las Vegas|Pegasus]], is confirmed, and implied by Rainbow Dash's figure of speech to be on an opposite coast from Fillydelphia.

** Twilight resolves to stop worrying about the future. Unfortunately, she's still worried about the ''past'', so she goes back to deliver the message which started the whole mess.

** Why does the guard let Twilight into the library without question? Well, [[Bookworm|knowing Twilight's character]] he must know that she makes frequent visits to the library all the time.

*** In "A Canterlot Wedding" its established that her big brother is captain of the guard. Its likely enough that they would recognize who she is and let her through.

*** You can get simpler; Twilight or Spike probably sent a letter (offscreen) to Celestia explaining what happened. The princess probably told the guards to let her in on Tuesday morning to perpetuate the [[Stable Time Loop]]. This would also explain why Celestia was so amused to find her there that morning.

** Why does Twilight firmly grasp the [[Idiot Ball]] at the end of the episode and go back in time to warn herself, even though she knows a message from her future self is what causes all the trouble? At that point, she has gone for ''days'' without any sleep, under constant stress. Her judgment is [[Justified Trope|understandably impaired]].

*** Not to mention her bout of insanity was preceded immediately by a blow to the head. Granted she's been prone to both [[Super OCD]] and [[Amusing Injuries]] before, but it's likely that particular flower pot jarred something loose.

*** In addition, she's probably just so relieved to learn that there's no catastrophe and that everything is fine, she just may not have been paying attention to the fact that she was repeating the loop.

*** Or she fully intended to travel back in time. If she didn't, she would have no reason to even be in the Canterlot Library. So, she ''had'' to go back in time to tell her past self about the time spells in the Library so [[Time Crash|all of reality wouldn't crash into itself.]]

** Fluttershy can easily tame Cerberus...because he ''is'' already tame! He's the guardian against the horrors of Tartarus. Guard dogs are tame creatures. (Can't be often he gets to play fetch and get tickled. Or is there somepony who takes care of him?) While he does scare the ponies at the beginning, the clear problem is that he has left Tartarus unguarded, not that he himself is that dangerous (though guard dogs can be mean if provoked, of course).

*** Also, consider that each head wore a spiked collar. Somepony or creature had to make that for the beast. Unfortunately, whomever provided the collar still didn't house-train him...

* [[Fridge Horror]]: Yes, somewhere in Equestria is a door to Tartarus that holds ancient horrors, guarded by the three-headed dog, Cerberus. Within hours of walking distance to Ponyville. Given the distance and the dirtied look of Twilight when she returns, it's probably deep in Everfree Forest.

*** Nope. Cerberus wasn't sealed away, he's the guard dog. Everything on the opposite side of what he's [[Sealed Evil in a Can|guarding however...]]

**** As long as they're not dragons, Fluttershy's still probably got the upper hoof.

*** Which means that Tartarus wouldn't just hold all manner of demons and monsters (and likely whoever the Devil for ponies is - Krastos, maybe?), but also evil ponies who had commited terrible amounts of evil. What if a dead pony version of Hitler was set free?

** With a bit of twisted logic, this can actually become a bit of [[Heartwarming in Hindsight]]. If [[Fridge Logic|Equestria is so saccharine because all the evildoers have been cast and/or banished into Tartarus]], then sending her sister to the moon and [[Taken for Granite|sealing her worst enemy in stone]] can be considered acts of ''mercy'' on Celestia's part.

*** Fans keep talking about Celestia banishing everything to the moon as if it was a special power of hers, but it is rather blatantly obvious that the reason ''Luna'' turned into Nightmare ''Moon'' ends up on the moon is because of her magical connections to it. Seeing as the Elements of Harmony turned Discord to stone when Celestia and Luna ''wasn't'' using them, using the Elements on whoever presumably has an effect depending on who they are. Stone is solid and unchanging, the opposite of Chaos. For all we know, if they used it on Derpy Hooves she would be banished to/turned into a muffin...

** That eyepatch came out of a fireplace... [[Squick|with Pinkie's hoof kicking up soot...]] Ow.

** How exactly was trimming Pinkie Pie's mane supposed to prevent a disaster? It's not even long enough to trip over.

*** Trimming it helps her see better. ''[[Fridge Brilliance|She found that time travel spell later on.]]''

** Unless you want to argue that he was just maintaining his cover.

*** If that is the case, how funny would it have been to give him shifty, nervous eyes during the scene in question?

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