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Same here. I was pleasantly surprised to see he wasn’t a dick. Actually, he AND Filthy Rich are both pretty decent guys.

I was pleasantly surprised by that.

I actually expected most of Canterlot Wedding to be Crazy Twi accidentallying all of Canterlot somehow, and Multiplicitying herself and her friends to give themselves enough time to set things right.  
What resulted gave us a hot new babe and some oh-so-exploitable minions, but I can’t help feeling by making Cadence and Shiny useless, they kind of messed them up for future iterations. While in what I was expecting was Cadence would have gone into bitch-mode from Twilight messing things up with her OCD, and going all action-girl on the clones for ‘ruining her day’
 
The twist of the ep would have been she wasn’t bitchy normally, but as the alicorn of wuv she was built up on expecting a wedding as blissful as those she had been giving to other ponies. And now her childhood dream was crumbling before her very eyes thanks to one screwball unicorn. And that’s when she breaks down and calls it off and says it’s been ruined, when Shiny says he doesn’t care and they kiss and go ahead with it in the trashed hall, with about 8 or 9 clones of the mane six filling out the roster of wedding ‘guests’ who didn’t run away during the fighting.
 
The idea I was thinking of would be that the episode would have two lessons, 1: for Cadence to not build your expectations so high they are impossible to fulfill, and 2: for Twilight to learn sometimes taking initiative isn’t for the best. Ponies are used to listening to Twilight since she’s the brainy one, but she would slowly be botching the wedding because she would take an accountant’s/manager’s view of it. All business, no emotion, kind of unintentionally stepping on others hooves’ slightly disturbing them but not enough to raise their voices or talk back. (ala her management style in wrap-up/about time) That’d fit the “FiM” theme a tad better.

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Blue eyes were quite obvious :)
 
On topic, I didn’t quite crack Mare do Well before the fairly obvious hints (especially purple magic aura and Mane 6’s teasing of RD). Fancypants did pleasantly surprise me, as well.

*tortoise

It’s weird Professor. I was instantly distrustful of Cherry Jubilee (she gave off a brothel maiden sort of vibe and we know Applejack needed money) but the first couple minutes of Flim and Flam made me think they were building towards a lesson about compromise.
 
Of course, it became clear very fast Flim and Flam were villains, but up until the very end I expected Jubilee to drop in and fuck things up.

Fancypants its nothing but a male version of Rarity.  
He’s classy,sophisticated and some people think he’s an awful person,but he’s actually a very sweet and generous person.

I guessed all of those but Fancy Pants not being a dick did kind of surprise me. I also particularly like that they didn’t force Rarity to have some nonsense Karmic comeuppance for her white lies. One of my favorite episodes.
 
Oh, and I agree with Cherry Jubilee not being a jerk thing. When I first saw her art I assumed she would be some kind of jerk that was holding AJ to some kind of Draconian bet or something.

Was I the only one who didn’t really expect AJ to be Rarity in disguise?  
I wasn’t SURPRISED by it, but still.

That is most certainly the show’s best twist Trotsky. That came right the FUCK out of nowhere. When I first saw how bitchy Cadence was, my first thought was that Canterlot Wedding was going to be Best Night Ever all over again, and Cadence was just Blueblood with a pussy. Once she broke out the green flames my mind jumped strait to Discord, but yeah, Changlings completely surprised me.

I thought Owlicious would turn out to be evil and Spike was right.

I thought Cherry Jubilee would be a complete bitch, struck out on that one.

None of this really surprised me.
 
The only part in the show that made my eyes wide open was Chrysalis’ intro.

I saw Fancy Pants as not being a dick. Can’t say I forsaw the Mare Do Well plot twist.

yeah that actually surprised me the first time as Spike’s confession in secret of my excess

I’ll admit, maybe this was just me, but the Mare Do Well revelation was a surprise. As I was watching the episode, my first guess was Trixie, then Luna, but the twist managed to surprise me at least.
 
Other then that, the rest I saw coming.

I saw Fancy Pants awesomenes coming from miles away.  
Didn’t expect the Mare Do Well twist though.