Uh, sure, not stating the “fact” that supposedly G4 unicorns and pegasi can fly and do magic way better than anyone Twilight’s age because of that half assed explanation Mr. Cake gave and you want to give more godmodding crap to the pair? Please.

@NostalgiaSchmaltz  
Pegasi do not fly by virtue of their wings. Their flapping rate, their ability to stand on clouds without even flapping their wings, and the simple size of their wings relative to their bodies (they do not operate in the super-viscous scale of honeybees) makes it abundantly clear that their flight is 100% magic. The magic seems to manifest through the wings, as a unicorn’s does through the horn, but it’s the magic, not the wings, that provide the flight. It’s just as realistic to assume Pound got a burst of flight magic as that Pumpkin got a burst of unicorn magic.

@NostalgiaSchmaltz  
And not for the first time.
 
@NostalgiaSchmaltz  
Keep in mind that, in “Feeling Pinkie Keen”, Dizzy Twister and some unknown pegasus were not only keeping a truck and its load aloft, they were keeping it horizontal in complete disregard of its center of gravity. And in “Sonic Rainboom”, Rainbow Dash had no trouble not only carrying four other ponies, but changing everyone’s momentum so drastically that, if physics played the slightest role in that scene, everyone would be dead.
 
Pegasus magic is powerful and flexible stuff.

@Background Pony Number 17  
Element of Laughter. What were you expecting?

@NostalgiaSchmaltz  
Abusing the Rule of Funny is pretty much Pinkie Pie’s M.O.

@Background Pony Number 17  
I like to think that they just abused the hell out of Rule of Funny.

@NostalgiaSchmaltz  
@Prof.NightJack  
@Archonix
 
Two things about that scene in Baby Cakes:  
1 - This is Pinkie Pie we’re talking about.  
2 - There were no other witnesses.
 
If you recall, during that scene Pinkie Pie was freaking out because she had lost track of where the foals were. And we have seen that when Pinkie Pie gets put under stress, she tends to crack and start hallucinating. Thus, what we have here is a case of an unreliable narrator. Pound Cake and Pumpkin Cake probably could fly and have magic outbursts, but I’d say at least half of that scene was Pinkie Pie’s fevered imagination rather than reality.
 
Bottom line: Pinkie Pie got scared, and her fears exaggerated the scene all out of proportion. We were looking at it from Pinkie’s POV, so it seemed real to us just as it did to her.

@Prof.NightJack  
If you’re going to be that technical about sense-making, then nothing in the show makes any sense whatsoever because it’s not set on Earth.
 
:|
 
My point is, an infant carrying something over 5 times its weight and not being hindered or encumbered in any way, makes no sense. Especially considering what we’ve previously seen of ponies’ strength, and the force of gravity.
 
Moreso, Rainbow Dash’s explanation for it, “He’ll have those wings going in no time!”, does not explain it at all. Rarity’s explanation for an infant using advanced magic is somewhat valid despite being a cheap cop-out, but RD’s doesn’t explain how Pound Cake deliberately defies physics.

@NostalgiaSchmaltz  
You keep going back to “it makes no sense” well hate to tell you but actually a fully grown pegasus makes little sense really, so who cares if it’s a baby, you going to go with that then non of them should be able to fly.

@NostalgiaSchmaltz  
You say that as if the crazies in this fan base actually do anything remotely approaching “critical analysis”.

@Tenafly Viper  
What if I told you…
 
There is a difference between critical analysis and “crying”

@Background Pony  
Nothing you say hides the fact that you’re whining about a cartoon. You gonna cry about Spike still being considered a “baby” when he’s over half of Twilight’s age too?

@Background Pony  
Don’t start acting like condescending jerk…

@Prof.NightJack  
That’s a nice opinion. I hope you enjoy having it.

If one wants to analyzing thing like this in the show it’s okay, but when you all you are doing is “it makes no sense, it’s a cop-out” then you’re over analyzing and at hat point the MST3K mantra is what you need to remember.

@Background Pony  
Doesn’t change the fact that you’re crying over a cartoon, hon.

@Tenafly Viper  
Talking.  
like  
this  
is  
really  
fucking  
conde-  
scending  
and  
will  
only  
make  
people  
ignore  
you.
 
PS. See what @Background Pony said

@NostalgiaSchmaltz  
News flash: It’s a cartoon.  
Car  
toon.  
A cartoon.  
The show  
is  
a  
cartoon.

*have you seen

@NostalgiaSchmaltz  
Maybe there world works on another level then ours, you seem Linkara’s History of Power Ranger, he now has this idea that it’s in a realty where physics do not work the same as in ours.

@Prof.NightJack  
Yes, and that “temporary bursts of magic” is just a cheap cop-out explanation. There’s no real problem with that, seeing as it’s magic, I just don’t like it.
 
The explanation for why Pound Cake was able to carry something over 5 times his weight and still fly very fast, completely unhindered, makes no sense and defies physics.

@Prof.NightJack  
Some of us enjoy analysing this stuff, myself included. Hell, I loved It’s About Time just because of all the over-analysing discussions it spawned. It doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy the show on its own merits when I want to.

Sigh….  

@Background Pony  
At least half the episodes won’t stand up to that kind of analysis.

@Masem  
And now I’m picturing Pumpkin screaming “He is the Kwisatz Haderach!” Thanks for that.