One of these days, I'm going to make a Quenya cover of that song. I've already got a translation, it's just rather difficult for me to pronounce correctly. Damn inflectionless American accent.

I can understand German pretty well, but Iwas to embarassed to ever practice speaking it. Plus speaking is normally a lot harder anyway.

Yeah. As I said. Insane. Plus my Afrikaans teacher that year didn’t like me (to be fair, I don’t think she liked anyone, unlike my accounting teacher who didn’t like me specifically)

We have a mandatory second language course as well. I think for even longer. Might even be for all twelve years IIRC. I got a D. Lowest passing grade is an E. My Afrikaans is considered by most to be really bad but serviceable. There was actually a girl in my first year of university who would chat to me in Afrikaans and only realised I was English a couple of months later. I was surprised. She thought that my difficulties were just me being a foreigner with a weird accent. But me being an English South African explained it. We also typically have some compulsory third language training for a couple of years that we are allowed to extend. I ended up also having a fourth due to a quirk, but that was only for a term. There’s also the fact that most South Africans do what we call “Menging our tale” (Meng is Afrikaans for “mix”. Tale is Afrikaans for “languages”. You never add the suffix “ing” to an Afrikaans word ever. Not even then.) So you can throw in the vocabulary and grammar of one language into another. I must admit that French grammar made zero sense to me. Zulu grammar did though. My sister says that Zulu grammar gets much harder at university level though.

Of course, I also know a tiny bit of some other languages. My handle name comes from Sindarin after all.

heh

Actually, there was a good point in the comments. Celestia makes a big deal about Twilight being able to choose her destiny now, but then makes her a princess and spirits her off to Canterlot to be saddled with tremendous soul-crushing responsibility and political red tape.

I had mandatory German for 4 years in middle and high school, and I later took a year in college to fuffill the humanties requirement.

Word from the staff is that Twilight isn't going to leave her friends or Ponyville for a while, right?

With a new Princess living there, I don't think Ponyville is going to stay a rustic backwater for very long.

Poor Applejack.

Also now that I think about it, the last five seconds of the episode preemptively killed a perfectly good Season 4 one: Twilight learning to fly.

edited 19th Feb '13 10:57:28 AM by Pykrete

@Pykrete: I don't know about that. Flying is easy. Landing is hard. I'm personally hoping that the first scene of S4 is Twilight flying into a tree.

They could still probably do it. Twilight turns out to just be really bad at it. There's more to flying than gliding, sort of thing.

Season 4 will bring: Even less Applejack!

Applejack got a hell of a lot more screen time than Rarity this season. D:<

Twilight learns to fly instantly. Because Scootaloo wasn't sad enough already.

Not pictured in the episode: Twilight flying smack into a wall.

For those of you who follow Slice of Life, I just noticed Ego actually went back and added wings to all the previous posts with Twilight in it. [1] [2] [3] [4]

Does this count as some sort of weird reverse fanon Retcanon?

I just cannot keep up with this topic...

Saw the season finale Saturday and I have one stupid little question. What was the corrected spell supposed to do? Was the alicorn-ation the desired effect, or was it supposed to reveal one's true destiny?

And are spoiler tags still needed?

edited 19th Feb '13 11:41:40 AM by GleamEyes23

Holy shit, he's even retconning in Twilight using winghands.

Dude, how many new faces have we gotten lately? I don't think I recognize half the people here anymore...

Erm, but no, no spoiler tags necessary. We all know what went down by now. It's accepted here that spoiler tags are only necessary until the episode airs.

In this case we kinda knew what happened a month before it aired >_>

edited 19th Feb '13 11:45:51 AM by Pykrete

@Gleam: It's never explicitly stated what the spell was supposed to do, but my theory is that Star Swirl was trying to make a spell that can turn somepony into an alicorn. He just didn't realize that the elements were required. Then Twilight inadvertently completed it.

German Fluttershy...the daws...

So what's up with this Slice of Life I keep hearing about?

It's an awesome tumblr starting the Cakes and Pinkie about eight years in the future. The twins are all grown up.

Ah, can't read it then.

I've noticed how some people comment on how Twilight is flying without even taking lessons. A couple of things I'd like to point out:

1. We didn't see her take off. That means she either had a running start or...her friends grabbed her and tossed her, like Shining Armor did with his wife Cadence. Twi-Tossing! <Smirk>
2. That part at the end was a clear instance of Breaking the Fourth Wall. Instances like that are played for laughs and should not be taken seriously.

I hear that Season 4 is going to open with a two-part episode. Well, actually, it's three parts and "Magical Mystery Cure" is simply the first part of three. I wonder what will happen next.

I serioulsy was expecting Twilight to smack into the "camera" at the end of the episode.

As to the spell, well, if we take the original snippet, and put Twilight's verse on to it, it comes out as this:

Anyone want to venture a guess to what that all means?

I think I can see why the first verse did what it did. In the context of the spell as finished by Twilight, it's something about power shared between them, but without that context, it literally moved the marks of destiny "from one to another".

edited 19th Feb '13 12:48:36 PM by Enlong