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Seraphem

We are here! We have arrived at the glorious reveal of the ONE TRUE PRINCESS OF THE NIGHT!!! Bow before her greatness! Revel in her presence! Behold the pinnacle of Equine kind! And that is only slightly hyperbole. Princess Luna is, hooves down, the single most popular character in this show outside of the Mane 6, and even beating out most of them. Yes that includes Best Pony Derpy.... who I thought was obvious this time but, I forgot about how epic tier her disguise skills are, she was the Paper Bag Wizard that drained the apple tub on Carrot Top... but yeah, as much as I play up Derpy, and she is by far one of the most popular ponies, Luna is in a class by herself in terms of how much love she gets. It's become a meme on Equestria Daily that any time Luna, or anything related to her is an option on a poll, she wins. And this episode just made sure that was the case. So, even prior to this, Luna was hugely popular and often talked about because of both how much mystery there was about her, but also fans trying to come up with what her personality would be, taking her backstory of feeling lonely and rejected and really empathizing with her and wanting her to find love and acceptance now.... and then we learned that finally, after a whole season of being absent she would be returning (Thanks to the execs pulling their heads out of the asses and letting the show staff do their thing after the show became the smash hit it did become, the only reason there was no Luna in season 1 was executive mandate prevented it because they thought a 'night themed' princess would be too dark for kids to relate to or too scary or some shit like that) there was much hype, but also a lot of fear over how she would be portrayed, how many headcanons would be shattered, and at the inevitable flame war of people complaining about this or that not matching what they thought she would be... And then, amazingly... none of that happened. This portrayal of Luna, while nothing like anything we had anticipated, was just so awesome, so wonderful, and yet still so relatable, and just so glorious that it completely shattered all headcanon, and no one minded replacing it with what we got. And her popularity has only grown since. Along side that, we have another thing added to this fandom that became insanely popular, Batponies! All it took was the one shot of the two batwinged ponies pulling he chariot, and the fandom has decided they are their own thing and has loved them ever since. By the shear amount of fan art, stories, everything that includes batponies, you would never tell this is the only time they ever showed up on screen! Okay this was a long one, will break it up. so that's background and general fandom stuff, next ep talking about the ep itself.

Seraphem

This ep is just glorious.. there are people who try to harp on it, or bring up 'plot holes' or things that don't make sense and, pretty much all of them require just, not really paying attention to anything and having near zero ability to analyze things. For one, "How is Luna so maladjusted to living in this time if it's been over a year" At no point does anything say this takes place over a year later, we know from Season 1 that these early season eps can be in anachronistic order, this is just taking place earlier and it's only been a few months for Luna, problem solved. "Why does everypony think she's NMM when they know that's not true." Looking at you too Shy! You've been saying it all through season 1 but the thing to keep in mind is that Luna is not Nightmare Moon. The exact relationship is hard to say given a lack of details, but they are clearly different beings in some way. (And no the 'We' thing she explained, she was using the Royal 'We' an affectation that monarchs would use to show they are not speaking of themselves as an individual person, but rather that they represented the entirety of their kingdom.) And throughout all of this, no.. everypony didn't think that, the only Pony who legit thought that was Fluttershy, who was clearly already in a panic attack and not exactly rational. Pinkie Pie and the foals never thought she was, Pinkie just thought Luna was playing up the bit for NMN and was trying to play along, never sticking around to see the aftermath to understand what was going on. I love this ep, it remains one of the best eps, and not JUST because it has Best Princess, but for so many reason, the costumes, the humor, nailing a Halloween vibe so well, even the music, if you listen close, the tune playing when Twilight first walks through the festival sounds suspiciously like the theme tune to The Munsters, the little bit playing at the start as Spike paces is clearly "In the Hall of the Mountain King". So many great little touches. Also, you may have noticed a missing pony, no Rarity. Official explanation is she spent the last few weeks working her plot off to get all the costumes made for everypony else, so was at home passed out. Though there was actually a scene with her that cut for time where she would help try to find a costume for Luna..... which sadly it's cutting deprived us of watching Tabitha hold conversations with herself, as Rarity's VA, Tabitha St Germain also voices Luna, as you can tell a few times when Luna sounds an awful lot like Marshmallow Horse. As you can tell.... I kind of really love this episode! And your reactions! Yeah I stayed for the bit at the end and, great attitude! I find it's the reactors who are doing this just because they enjoy watching the shows who tend to be far, far more enjoyable then the ones just trying to fish for views and numbers!

UrFavShyGuy

honestly i really love princess luna she is such a unique pony and i love the explanation that you gave me i appriciate that alottttt and also answered lots of my questions, also lastly yeah im starting to just focus on just enjoying the shows i watch instead of just watching for the cahnnel beacausei feel it means more to actually understand the show than just watch, andd thank you so much for supporting me it means so so much to me

Jeff Spencer

All hail the Lunar Republic. Luna is by far much better then her sister in any terms. she controls the lovely night sky and she has bat pony's in her royal guard. tia only has boring guards no bat ponies.