In a change of discussion:

Red Sniper is best pony.

edited 5th Jan '12 6:54:44 PM by PerpetualLurker

I think twilight talent is hard to accept becuase it's also hard to accept the idea of someone being better than us and no matter how much you may try you simply never being able to catch up

edited 5th Jan '12 6:55:49 PM by FallenLegend

And that's why she has friends. They're her fallback.

edited 5th Jan '12 6:55:48 PM by KylerThatch

That's a weird thing to hate yourself for, Ginger.

Having Twilight build herself up Rakan style would be cool if this were an action series, but as it is her magic is more of a plot device than anything.

Mayhap the spells to "control the sun and moon" are really the power to change the spin of the planet and the orbit of the moon, respectively.

Both are ridiculously powerful forms of magic.

And apparently, both sisters are capable of either one, what with Luna being able to shut down Celesita's attempts to change the sun's path. Or perhaps the Equestrian moon can absorb sunlight if it's full in the sky.

edited 5th Jan '12 6:56:21 PM by Enlong

@ Robbie: I spent my entire college career doing this sort of thing with everything from cinema to literature and folklore, so analysing a children's cartoon doesn't seem too strange. Though I admit a few people take it a bit far.

edited 5th Jan '12 6:56:42 PM by Drenius

I just don't like the implication that we may NEVER see another unicorn who's on Twilight's level

edited 5th Jan '12 6:57:58 PM by gingerninja666

I'm just disappointed i can't say anything about that subject.

well, don't worry too much, all that knowledge about folklore and literature hasn't turned out all that useful in real life.

I doubt we will never see one. No one after all has said anything about two ponies not having the same talent.

Always Someone Better might make a good letter to Celestia. A pony on par or above Twilight that impresses all her friends and makes her dramaticaly insecure about herself.

edited 5th Jan '12 7:00:41 PM by LMage

Well there is still plenty of show left. We might meet one in due time.

edited 5th Jan '12 7:00:21 PM by Mio

May ≠ will. simple as that. Don't fret over what you don't know, you get worked up enough over what you do know to begin with.

@ Pagetopper

Nice...when TF 2 meets FIM...magic happens.

@ginger: Star Swirl the Bearded and his present-day descendant of the same name.

Wasn't Always Someone Better kinda covered in MMDW?

edited 5th Jan '12 7:02:27 PM by gingerninja666

But it's in our nature to fret over that which we don't know. Just as we all have an ingrained fear of The Other and Otherness as it were.

edited 5th Jan '12 7:02:25 PM by Drenius

I'm curious about what people think about fanthings that imagine things X years into the future. Can be far future, can be immediate future, whatever as long as it's beyond the current show's timeline. How likely is it for them to just go on their separate ways but still keep in touch?

I've neer really looked at the x years in the future fanstuff, so I can't say too much about it. I like to think that the main cast would go through the trouble of keeping in touch. Unfortunately, I think that a few such as Rarity or Dash might get too absorbed in whatever work they're doing at that point.

edited 5th Jan '12 7:06:20 PM by Drenius

No, excessive pride was covered in MMDW. For Always Someone Better RD would have to have faced some superior to her in her field of choice and passion: flying.

edited 5th Jan '12 7:03:35 PM by LMage

Not really. It was just a straight "bragin's bad 'mkay" aesop.

NINJA'D

edited 5th Jan '12 7:05:43 PM by Mio

Depends on how long in the future you're asking about.

Eventually, though? Very definitely. People take their own paths in life, and rarely do they lead in the same geographical direction. Unless, for some reason, they explicitly plan it around that restriction.

edited 5th Jan '12 7:04:47 PM by KylerThatch

Actually... now that I think about it, the fact that Rainbow Dash didn't immediatly think of Twilight when the Mysterious Mare repaired the dam makes me think that that level of power isn't unique to her.

Maybe I just think of these things differently. I've always taken to heart the adage "A great potential is a heavy burden"

edited 5th Jan '12 7:07:45 PM by Enlong

I have a feeling that there are Unicorns who can rivial Twi, but they are much older than her.

Also, what about Twi's former classmates...what are they doing?

And I demand an ep where they cal Twi out on rejecting them!

Because dam it they reached out to her!

edited 5th Jan '12 7:08:38 PM by ApplelightLimited

This thought came to me awhile ago, but it bugs me some people joke, or even seriously, talk about Celestia being a troll/bad ruler while hyping up real jerks like Trixie like they're hot shit.

For 'X years into the future', I don't actually think there will be that much of a difference. Most of the girls already do what they want to do in life, and they all have their own homes; with the exception of Dash, who can commute, and Rarity, who might want to be in Canterlot, the girls are largely set for where they'll be and what they'll be doing in the future.

Now, as they find lovers and 'settle down', as it were, then I can imagine them growing slightly apart, but still keeping in very frequent touch with each other. I mean, even nowadays the girls don't always all see each other every day.