I doubt it, hence why it would have to either be something else, or merely be the setup for something else. I don't think it's likely as the main drive of the episode, especially as it doesn't reconcile easily with the "dark secret" bit of the plot.

EDIT: Pagetopper.

edited 20th Apr '12 7:26:35 PM by JapaneseTeeth

@Seraph

Celestia? Fics? Respect? don't make me laugh

edited 20th Apr '12 7:28:27 PM by gingerninja666

@Seraphem: I don't really read a lot of fics, so I wouldn't know about that. I'm thinking mainly of fancomics. I'd love to see more that sort player her as mischievous, but not a straight-up troll.

1029 GMT+8. 14.5 hours.

The final creeps closer...

Tick. Tick. TICK.

I actually think the Cadence clone/disguise idea makes sense. It seems odd for Cadence to have two cutie marks unless it's just the image quality. I'm going with that idea until proven otherwise.

Damn it, why was I expecting something else from that pagetopper?

Everyone screwed up in Fallout Equestria, it isn't like everything was Celestia's fault. Most of the fics I've read have a fair take on Celestia, the Trollestia/Molestia/tyrant stuff tends to show up in fics that are specifically about that kind of thing.

edited 20th Apr '12 7:32:28 PM by Crowfall

You know a character portrayal is bad if it makes me lop off a whole star from a fic's final score because of it

Uh, no, I'm pretty sure she singlehandedly ruined everything

edited 20th Apr '12 7:33:14 PM by gingerninja666

Singlehandedly? Really? Yeah she made a lot of mistakes, but I remember being a lot more concerned with the mistakes everyone else was making. Everyone fucked up in that fic.

Celestia stepped down from leadership when the shit hit the fan. Although Installing her self in the spp was a dumb idea she was pretty much well over the edge due to luna's death.

If we wanted to play that game everything is fluttershy's fault.

edited 20th Apr '12 7:38:47 PM by stevebat

@Crow without her, the war wouldn't have become a holy one and would therefore have remained open to negotiation. Without her, Steelhooves wouldn't be how he was now, without her, the pink cloud wouldn't have been there or the black book, without her, a great deal of the wasteland wouldn't have been poisoned as extremely as it was

No, the Megaspells only became that bad AFTER the war became holy, which it wasn't until Celestia fucked up

edited 20th Apr '12 7:39:57 PM by gingerninja666

Ginger, jsut becuase it does not complely with your personl fannon and interpretation does NOT mean it is not good or even respectful, especially if they only "disrespect" is that she's shown as flawed and fallible.

I just remember most of the worst stuff in the war happening after she stepped down, which granted was a stupid decision. But I'll just stop now, because you clearly spent a lot more time focusing on her mistakes than I did.

@Seraph but she acted NOTHING like how she did in canon. There's being flawed and falable, and then there's being completely fucking useless and the sole cause of the deaths of millions

And the exact same thing is true for the Zebras, and for Luna, if ANYPONY did ANYTHING differnt it could have been averted. and as always hindsight is 20/20 you CANNOT blame someone for acting in a certain way, when the ONLY thing that would say they shouldn't is information they neither have, nor SHOULD resonably have.

Okay, time for some pre-finale subjective analysis for new pony rankings! As I did last time, I'm whipping out my personal 40 point scale, in which each character is rated 1-10 in four areas that personally endear them to me: Character, Cuteness, Humor, and Awesomeness.

Here's my previous go at this, and here's the final rankings from then for those who don't feel like reading the breakdown:

1) Rarity (28)

2) Fluttershy (27)

2) Applejack (27)

3) Twilight Sparkle (26)

3) Rainbow Dash (26)

4) Pinkie Pie (25)

Now, lets see what we got here.

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Twilight Sparkle:

Character: 8/10

Cuteness: 8/10

Humor: 5/10

Awesomeness: 9/10

Total: 30/40

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Pinkie Pie

Character: 5/10

Cuteness: 7/10

Humor: 10/10

Awesomeness: 6/10

Total: 28/40

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Fluttershy

Character: 6/10

Cuteness: 10/10

Humor: 6/10

Awesomeness: 8/10

Total: 30/40

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Rarity

Character: 10/10

Cuteness: 8/10

Humor: 7/10

Awesomeness: 6/10

Total: 31/40

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Applejack

Character: 8/10

Cuteness: 5/10

Humor: 8/10

Awesomeness: 8/10

Total: 29/40

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Rainbow Dash

Character: 7/10

Cuteness: 9/10

Humor: 5/10

Awesomeness: 10/10

Total: 31/40

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Final Rankings:

1) Rarity (31)

1) Rainbow Dash (31)

2) Twilight Sparkle (30)

2) Fluttershy (30)

3) Applejack (29)

4) Pinkie Pie (28)

Well.... Now I have even less conclusive rankings than before. Overall my opinions of all the ponies have improved, and surprisingly RD has now tied Rarity for Best Pony, but there is still only a 3 point gap between first and last place... There you have it. Since I can only pick three for the votes, I'm going to have to go with:

1. Rarity

2. Rainbow Dash

3. Fluttershy

if only because Twilight already has a lot of votes, and Rarity was the best first before RD, so she gets the first slot. And so my inability to pick favorites becomes even worse...

...Can Celestia do the Solar Flare?

not in FO:E

The zebras were also idiots and let their religious fear of the stars colour their prejudice against poor Luna and making negiotation nigh-impossible.

Anyways, now Twi will legitly be a noble once her brother gets married.

Pheonixes can.

Did she pick up moves from Philomena, then?

@Lurker so AJ goes down...

@Seraph The author still didn't need to write it that way. Not ALL of those things NEEDED to be Celestia's fault...

... sorry, that last chapter almost destroyed my ability to enoy that fic

@Ace Which wouldn't have happened had Celestia not stepped down

edited 20th Apr '12 7:45:53 PM by gingerninja666

Ginger You seem convinced that everything is celestia's fault in that fic. I am sorry to hear that but you are welcome to your own opinion.

@Ginger AJ didn't go down, she simply went up less than everyone else. Remember that she is only two points behind the top, so the difference in opinion of the character is negligible.