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Star-Swirled: Oh I’m SORRY if I was too busy INVENTING MAGICAL TIME TRAVEL to finish a destiny switching spell that only worked on the stupid magical artifacts that only you and your sister could wield at the time. And I’m REALLY sorry that I never spent every waking moment discussing the magic of friendship with you. I had this thing called GROUND BREAKING MAGIC to invent. But thanks for pointing that out and then giving your student credit for MY work. She writes two lines that undoes a spell and that’s CREATING new magic? Seems like the opposite, don’t you think? Oh and if she’s getting into the Hall of Magic for that, be sure to put an asterisk by her name, considering you gave her Alicorn powers to boost her magical capacities by 300%. You see, in my day, I didn’t need to sprout wings and wear a crown to be the GREAT BUCKING UNICORN MAGICIAN IN THE LAND. I did it on my OWN merits. Not coasting on my mentors coattails and stealing credit from my colleagues. But no, enjoy your crown, Miss Sparkle. Clearly, you have “earned” this.

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DarkMech is Best Mech
Don’t worry Swirl. At least Twilight appreciates your contributions to the magical sciences!
 
… That probably doesn’t help.
Background Pony #7DDD
@Background Pony  
True, but she never made the spell in the first place. That’s the same as some guy tightening the bolts on the first robot.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Chocolate is awesome.
Background Pony #6CA6
@Background Pony  
Also, Twilight mastered friendship magic to the extent that she became the first unicorn in history to complete and cast a spell using it. That’s a pretty big accomplishment.
Background Pony #ECBC
@Background Pony  
Basically, Celestia tricked Twilight into sacrificing her own friend’s elements of harmony so she could turn her student who she spoils rotten into an alicorn and a princess for an extremely bullshit reason that she never earned that the others haven’t learned 5 times over with more common sense.
 
…That’s a ton worse captain obvious.
Background Pony #D934
First of all where is everyone getting the idea that the complete spell was a cure for the destiny switch? That was already undone by the time Twilight cast it, and what sense would it make for the finished spell to just be a cure for its own incomplete version anyway? Given how destiny switching was portrayed as such a terrible thing it seems very unlikely that it was ever an intended effect of the spell at all.
 
Second, based on what we saw Celestia didn’t do anything to Twilight expect congratulate her. She never used magic on her, the power that transformed Twilight came from within herself. It’s pretty clear that the completed spell, along with the Elements of Harmony and her own magical power, is what turned her into an Alicorn. If that’s what Starswirl wanted then maybe he should have studied the Magic of Friendship a bit more…
Kerion

I don’t believe it. I believe Starswirl actually DID complete the spell, but intentionally rewrote it to make it look unfinished. He didn’t want that kind of power falling into the wrong hooves.
CronoM

  1. I was talking about Everypony  
  2. I don’t think giving her wings is going to make the plot any more interesting especially since non-Twilight centered episodes flow better  
  3. Twilight isn’t royalty. A commoner being corranated into royalty for (look above for Starswirled’s summary) reason makes no sense  
  4. So everybody had their brains turned off  
  5. Of course her friends would be happy for her, that’s a no brainier  
  6. Apparently so, since there were at least 3 in this episode, beginning, middle and end for no reason, especially the beginning.
     
    God this episode was dumb.
xTSGx
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@CronoM  
If by “everybody” you mean Twilicorn fans:  
  1. The songs were good.  
  2. For having to cram everything in, the pacing was actually pretty good.  
  3. Twilight bitchslaps the status quo and enables future episodes to have new and exciting plots.  
    If by “everybody” you mean the characters at her coronation.  
  4. It’s royalty. There were British folks here in the US that were up at 4 am to see the royal wedding.  
  5. It’s a party. Why wouldn’t they be happy?  
  6. >implying you wouldn’t be happy when one of your friends accomplishes something.  
  7. Parades are fun.
Scpx

The what in the where
>makes an entire book of magic  
>not even the most famous unicorn
 
>corrects a spell at the end of a book that pretty much does nothing in benefit of society in general  
>princess
CronoM

@CrossoverManiac  
And to be perfectly fair, if she knew where all the elements were, which she did, don’t you think they deserved a little attention beforehand, instead of immediately counting on her thick-headed apprentice to make friends, something she really didn’t encourage in the first place?
 
Kind of reminds me of Seto Kaiba’s backstory honestly, for all those Yugioh and Yugioh abridged fans.
 
Not to mention tracking down the person who CAUSED Twilight’s immense power boost from Book Manipulator to Sorceress Supreme? Episode 23 made sense since she obviously didn’t HAVE a strong enough will on her own to have all that magical power, but it was just excess energy from RD’s Sonic Rainboom that tied together all their lives.
CrossoverManiac
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@CronoM  
In Celestia’s defense, if she didn’t set the whole thing up, their world would have been plunged into eternal night. Kinda a bad thing being that it would have been nuclear winter on steroids and would have resulted in the end of all mulch-cellular life in Equestria.
Background Pony #DBED
“@Mayojar77”: …but they have been calling him Starswirl the Bearded…bearded mare?
CronoM

This is completely and 100% true.
 
Twilight is spoiled rotten and I wish it wasn’t true.
 
Seriously, Celestia, do you WANT Trixie to go on an Alicorn amulet relapse?
 
Oh wait…I forgot. You knew exactly where the other elements were otherwise you wouldn’t of set up the Summer Sun festival in Ponyville on the year of your sister’s release.
 
No one matters to you besides Twilight.
Justy
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Lol’d at that description. Being butthurt by proxy in the name of a character we know absolutely nothing about… that has to be a first.