1. To reiterate what I said but catered specifically to you, yes, it’s possible. It’s also possible she just didn’t report her either. It’s also possible she’s in cahoots with changelings. Meanwhile it can’t be said for certain Twilight never spoke a word about her to authorities, the opposite is also true, so either possibility is no more likely than the other. To turn it around, isn’t it possible that every other time Celestia was strong/lucky enough to get the jump on NM?
    
2. Children aren’t mentally deficient. Besides, these problems could all be avoided if there was something or someone subduing the cast while it happened to justify the pause. Have some goons surrounding them. Use magic to stop them in their tracks. Put a bucket around their heads. A thing. At all.
    
3. It actually would’ve saved time ranting on about why their friendship is vital, instead of dancing around the issue on how general friendship is important, just say ‘We’ve saved the world multiple times as the Helements of Armory’. Besides, talking is practically a free action since saying a sentence is about 2 seconds tops.
    
4. I assume you don’t have an argument to my actual point about ponies being selective about their respect of their princesses since you only took issue with my hypocrisy. Regardless, it was what it was and I apologize for it.

1. Your quote had nothing to do with what I said. So I’ll ask it in simpler terms in the hopes that I get an actual answer this time. Isn’t it possible that, despite being looked for, She was simply too good at hiding to be found?  
2. It’s a fucking kids show. Just because YOU can figure out what’s going on if they show the same scene in a more reasonable 10-15 seconds doesn’t mean your 4 year old neice will be able to catch on in that time. Also, pretty colors.  
3. But again, it would of wasted time that is better spent telling the rest of the episode. They pointed out she was incredibly petty to the point that she only cared about her revenge against Twilight for taking away what she worked on, what fucking more do you want? For it to be mentioned for 15 minutes?  
4. Wow, this is pretty hypocritical. You call me an ass for assuming you said “ru1n3d fo0r3veR” but then say that I said literally anything can beat them? I pointed out that they’re not perfect gods that couldn’t be beaten by anything, not the literal opposite of what I was saying they weren’t.

1. @Dig Dug
    
2. It was equally bad every time they did that, like when the other 5 stayed there and watched as Starlight removed Twilight’s Cutie Mark.
    
3. Hopefully that is considered at some point next season.
    
4. It would’ve driven the point home that Starlight was out of her mind, which wasn’t that big anyway since it didn’t take much more than “stop having a pity party and try again” from Twilight to bring her out of it. The show has a chronic case of introducing deep emotional conflicts and having them resolved in minutes with no recovery periods.
    
5. I was more referring to the more common ponies in other episodes that miss the fact that a princess walks among them, but if they’re so shit that anyone could beat them as you imply, why are they still the ruling powers?

1. She probably did. Has the consideration that Starlight is just THAT GOOD at hiding until she doesn’t need to never occured?  
2. She tried solving it non-violently and when she tried violence, that didn’t work either. This is also not the first time in the show something took a little bit longer than usual, but I guess now it’s a problem?  
3. Maybe she just felt she didn’t need one. Maybe she’ll consider one now, considering she has evidence that she could use some?  
   4.I’m sorry, did you miss the part where she was shown literally nothing but the ground itself and still only cared about her petty revenge against Twilight?  
   Even if she did, Star probably wouldn’t have given a damn, and it would of been little more than useless exposition of something that would later be shown anyways.  
4. Yes, cause as we know, the other Alicorns have had no failures whatsoever in the entire run of the series, right? Chrysalis, Tirek, and Discord all never happened. You’re absolutely right, how could anyone think they could hope to beat Twilight when she’s clearly a (noticeably less experienced) Alicorn, especially since ones much better at their job have yet to fail in any way whatsoever?
    
   Come on, can’t we talk about an actual problem the episode has for once in this fandom? Like how not every timeline had Nightmare Moon as a major problem?

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