@blacksunset
 
ARRR

So canon it belongs on a pirate ship

EVERYTHING IS CANON.

@Mugen Kagemaru  
Well, not necessarily all of it. Depends on how creative you are with ignoring things. All of RR and a good chunk of EqG1 are certainly canon now. But me personally, I strive to ignore as much of FG as is realistically possible.

Well on the one hand Fiendship 3 is non-canon, on the other, all of EqG just became solid canon.

I did enjoy how this episode managed to show the Dazzlings as being actually dangerous in old Equestria.

@Josh103  
Sssh.
 
It was still the longest battle we’ve ever had between the whole mane 6 and a villain.

@Philweasel  
That doesn’t really count. They didn’t fire any actual friendship beam together. It was just them using the magic individually.

@Background Human  
I’ll note Adagio is the only villain ever to no sell harmony powers. Literally every other villain has gone down like a punk once the Mane 6 start glowing and throwing rainbows at them, but Adagio not only fought back, she outright beat them.  

@Amethyst_Crystal  
@LanceOmikron  
I think it makes Rainbow Rocks that much more powerful in hindsight. When you compare what they did at Canterlot High to what they did here, you start to appreciate just how hard Equestrian magic is nerfed in Humanland.

@LanceOmikron  
Absolutely. You can see Adagio and Sonata busy sucking up the hatred while Aria deals with Flash Magnus.

@SuperSonic15  
Though they did put up a decent fight before that, only having the tables turned on them after Sunset joined in. So we did get a good hint as to their power. But seeing them in their actual forms here was an unexpected and most welcome treat. ^_^

@Amethyst_Crystal  
Yeah, we only saw their original forms when they were conjured to fight the Rainbooms, and then were easily disintegrated when that spectral Alicorn made by the Rainbooms’ magic delivered the finishing blow.

It’s nice to see how cool and dangerous the sirens were back in their home dimension, finally.

@Ryodraco  
The “turned to shadows” thing makes no difference, he was made of living shadow regardless. And there was no indication that he had returned to flesh and blood. As far as we know, he just coalesced into a form resembling his original one.

@LanceOmikron  
But in the episode proper wasn’t he said to have been “turned to shadow” by Celestia and Luna rather than being always made of shadow? And when he was shattered he had first returned to a flesh and blood form. Course if we only go off the scant information given in the animated series then it is hard to draw firm conclusions about him.

@Background Pony #8E4D  
I was one of those people. It didn’t make any sense for Sombra to immediately be assumed dead, since he was only blown to pieces with his horn being clearly intact. He was made of living shadow (so he probably could have pulled himself back together), and his horn was capable of regeneration.
 
Then his Fiendship is Magic issue came out, and I felt vindicated. Then the ending of the Crystal Siege arc happened, and… I started to think that maybe he should have just stayed dead.

This is how I felt about people in denial of Sombra’s death

@Background Pony #0BE2  
Well were else could you think they we’re sent to the Human world is the only logical conclusion

@Background Pony #B4A9  
In his defense in might as been as reference. However he’s right that they never said where they sent them to. That piece of lore came from equestria and even if it was established in RR it doesn’t prove that the other world exist as they said nothing of it in the segment.

@Background Pony #BAA5  

 
Oh my God three Sirens partol Star swarl sent to another World
 
Evidence 😥👇  
@Background Pony #C3D6  

@Background Pony #BAA5  

 
The Human world Duh
 
 
I swear your all giving me a headache 😑

@Background Pony #BAA5  
If Batman took off his mask in public, you would be in denial because “He didn’t say specifically that he was Bruce Wayne.”

@Background Pony #7DDB  
They probably believed Somnambula was going to go through the portal rather than fly over it

@Background Pony #7DDB  
If it helps, the flashback might just be a summary of what took place, like if it was actually a long, drawn-out battle, but they couldn’t very well squeeze that into the episode and it actually took Starswirl a LOT longer to make that portal, the other 5 distracting/fending off the sirens until they could be herded to the right spot at the right time. Maybe.
 
That, or it’s a heavy case of History Is Written By The Winners and those providing the flashback maybe weren’t completely honest about just how easy it was. Happens all the time, I think, because you can find people today that earnestly believe CHS won the Friendship Games even when the whole competition was a bust and it was declared ‘we’re all winners!’