221 episodes
10/15/2025, 12:57:46 PM
No.42673829
>>42673678
We could say that this is just the tantabus being bad at its job or a little clumsy, but it perfectly overturned the happy thoughts of the other ponies and formed an otherwise clear narrative for what its actions represent, so that still falls on the writers as a mistake. We could say dash has been the exception before where the m6 are involved, but there's little reason to do that in this case. We also know that she will later get dressed up by rarity and paired with zephyr, and we will have no reason to think that she actually likes those events other than her track record of dishonestly pretending not to like things prior to Griffonstone's ending. After this point, that becomes a record of getting exposed to things she just doesn't like over and over and tolerating them poorly. "Secrets and pies" comes to mind, where she willingly covers herself in garbage. Given that foreknowledge, this is the moment that trajectory was solidified, as a twisted mis-expression of "I'm not allowed to be happy".
Tantabus escapes the dreams using pinkie's imagining of other ponies, meaning that pinkie doomed everyone in the world by being happy.
Luna says she would do anything to fix this, "including accept your help", and fuses the dream of all the ponies down in ponyville so they can find the tantabus.
They are actually in twilight's bedroom, I was wrong about that.
The tantabus gains enough power to exit the dream by forming sharp implements (sword, scissors) and "cutting" space, meaning it has to create visual representations of its escape. The citizens of ponyville wield their happy thoughts (scoots grows big wings) against the tantabus to slow it down, while luna keeps resealing the cuts with other opposing visual metaphors (laser-cauterize, stitching) Obviously, using their happy thoughts should be insufficient. Fluttershy directs an evil-Angelbunny, which the tantabus made in the first place because it is capable of turning a happy thought upside down. It wouldn't make sense for that to be the answer.
We could say that this is just the tantabus being bad at its job or a little clumsy, but it perfectly overturned the happy thoughts of the other ponies and formed an otherwise clear narrative for what its actions represent, so that still falls on the writers as a mistake. We could say dash has been the exception before where the m6 are involved, but there's little reason to do that in this case. We also know that she will later get dressed up by rarity and paired with zephyr, and we will have no reason to think that she actually likes those events other than her track record of dishonestly pretending not to like things prior to Griffonstone's ending. After this point, that becomes a record of getting exposed to things she just doesn't like over and over and tolerating them poorly. "Secrets and pies" comes to mind, where she willingly covers herself in garbage. Given that foreknowledge, this is the moment that trajectory was solidified, as a twisted mis-expression of "I'm not allowed to be happy".
Tantabus escapes the dreams using pinkie's imagining of other ponies, meaning that pinkie doomed everyone in the world by being happy.
Luna says she would do anything to fix this, "including accept your help", and fuses the dream of all the ponies down in ponyville so they can find the tantabus.
They are actually in twilight's bedroom, I was wrong about that.
The tantabus gains enough power to exit the dream by forming sharp implements (sword, scissors) and "cutting" space, meaning it has to create visual representations of its escape. The citizens of ponyville wield their happy thoughts (scoots grows big wings) against the tantabus to slow it down, while luna keeps resealing the cuts with other opposing visual metaphors (laser-cauterize, stitching) Obviously, using their happy thoughts should be insufficient. Fluttershy directs an evil-Angelbunny, which the tantabus made in the first place because it is capable of turning a happy thought upside down. It wouldn't make sense for that to be the answer.