I really hope this won't be the last we see of Discord, and, like you people are saying, he becomes a Recurring villain.

By the time I was done watching the episode on Youtube, there were 180 more comments posted. By the time I was done gawping at this, there were 192 comments.

People sure love their ponies...

If Discord can do all this, it makes me wonder what Celestia and Luna were capable of, if they could defeat someone like him

edited 17th Sep '11 11:10:47 AM by gingerninja666

I agree that it seems a bit rushed, but I feel like that's a limitation of the medium rather than any problem with the writing. I mean, I suppose they could have made it 3 episodes, but that would have been pushing it. With everything they had to fit into the episode, I think they did as well as you could expect.

Is that the past, or a prophecy?

edited 17th Sep '11 11:14:28 AM by Ever9

Recuring Villain?..Could Discord be redeemed?

edited 17th Sep '11 11:14:28 AM by FallenLegend

"Oh my god; a giant rock!"

And I reiterate, Discord could do far worse if he felt like it.

edited 17th Sep '11 11:14:26 AM by RichReeders

Oh, that's clever.

Also, I find it amusing that this has only about 300 views, and twice as many "likes".

28DaysLater?

Wait, how's that even POSSIBLE?

edited 17th Sep '11 11:14:45 AM by JesusSaves

Well, it's clearly incorrect, since there are 700+ votes.

I think this episode (and likely part 2 with it) is likely to become my new episode of choice should I ever have to pick one to use to introduce someone to the show.

You know that theory about how Discord is responsible for Nightmare Moon? I think that theory might actually be right now! Think about it - first, Luna and Celestia take notice of how Discord is making Equestria a terrible place to live. They find the Elements of Harmony to stop him. Discord recognizes that he's unable to overcome the elements when they're being used against him.

So before the two turn him to stone, he takes advantage of Luna's place as being in charge of the moon and being the younger sister, setting Luna up for her Face Hoof Turn, knowing that it'll cause Luna to go bad and that Celestia will be forced to banish Luna. This in turn sets up Celestia to loose control of the Elements when she's forced to rely on other ponies to become connected to them, allowing Discord his opening to escape and a second shot at victory.

What's more, as long as they're given to ponies who aren't as immortal as Celestia and Luna, it means from now till the end of time he'll have a new opportunity once per generation to get free when a new set of ponies is needed to wield the elements and the spell is broken again.

edited 17th Sep '11 11:19:11 AM by SpaceJawa

The magic of friendship?

edited 17th Sep '11 11:25:54 AM by FallenLegend

I really hope that that's true. It would be awesome.

edited 17th Sep '11 11:19:39 AM by JapaneseTeeth

Oh if only that could turn out to be true. That'd be an awesome revelation.

Guys, I don't know if Discord will be a reoccuring villain.

He is voiced by John De Lancie. I'll assume he's hard to get.

It would certainly give a good reason for Luna to show up (As if there wasn't already). Give her a chance to strike back at him and get some greater sense of redeeming herself if she were to help the Element Bearers recover from his mischief and get the elements back.

If that theory is true it might explain why Celestia didn't go with them. She knows what Discord can do and doesn't want to get corrupted like Luna.

Of course that just makes me wonder why she thought they had a chance against him. Maybe the ponies were just keeping him busy while Celestia did something sneaky?

Lula in part 2 plz!

edited 17th Sep '11 11:35:25 AM by FallenLegend

Given Pinkie's love of the chocolate rain and such early on, I figured Discord would warp her element of laughter to the point where should couldn't take any of the events seriously and would be laughing at all the bad things happening.

Discord actually seems like the mischievous imp Q (the one not teaching lessons or working on behalf of the continuum) dialed up to eleven. Went way beyond chaotic trickster to chaotic asshole.

You guys think Discord will be redeemable or is his fate being in stone/ recurring villain?

Luna is Equestria's new Batmare, a Dark Night.

I know how it will end.

Twilight show her friends things what element they represent.

Loyality to RD, Laughter to PP, Honesty to AJ, Kindness to Flutershy and Generousy to Rarity.

It will show how Twilight character growed during s1 and how rest of Mane Cast ifluenced her.

Lol but why?

edited 17th Sep '11 11:52:04 AM by FallenLegend

Wow, Discord is really intimidating. Considering that Discord had to force Fluttershy to be evil, it shows that he has the power to end the mane 6 if he really wanted to.

Yeah I really felt scared for our favorite ponies...

edited 17th Sep '11 11:57:53 AM by FallenLegend