 So we know that twilight has been studying gravity spells And she's pretty proficient at them a pretty fundamental force of the universe. Mm-hmm. How come time spells are so much harder? Well, she did one though Uh, but not very well. She could barely do these time-based aging Feed-up slowdown spells the one time she transported herself in time to give a message Which was different from aging an object or a pony within one timeline She's like moving an object to a different timeline versus Shifting an object inside well, okay when you're not the aging spell is not a time related spell, right? What it is is you're modifying a pony. It's a biological modification spell which she's been practicing right like turning But she was turning apples into oranges. She was doing it on fruits and birds small animals turning them into fruits But to modify like, you know, and I guess she can make things bigger and smaller I think she's done that right but to You know and move things around but to biologically modify the genetic engineering spell. It's not a Uh a time traveling spell. Yep, but it so if it was a time traveling spell she could go And bring like, you know Grown-up apple bloom suddenly poof can come back in time and tell young apple bloom Well, you could argue that a cutie mark. They're two different sides of time manipulation It's just which timeline you're actually manipulated the timeline of an object or the timeline of the space around the object But we the thing is this important is everybody who knows magic seems to be aware that Age magic is only for the highest level unicorns An age spell But how could you do an age spell? That's only for the highest level unicorns now Correct me if i'm wrong genetic engineering is tough. Does it not appear that both celestia and luna are immortal? That they at least we've seen celestia has been around for a long thousands of years Yeah, you think maybe they're using these age spell on themselves to keep themselves young so they don't so is it that these are difficult? Or that they are forbidden I don't think they're forbidden right because celestia didn't get pissed off and are rest tricksy for using them or she didn't know And if twilight learned them, she wouldn't be like, you know Well, she's grooming twilight to take over. I'm just saying is like if someone learned one It doesn't seem that they would be in trouble, right? It would just be like, holy shit. That's awesome, right? That's the you know twilight wasn't like that's forbidden. She was like That's only the highest level unicorns would be able to do that Well only for the highest level unicorns is what she said. I believe yeah I Maybe it's forbidden in the sense that the the spell books describing this stuff are just not commonly available Yeah, I think it's it's just that it's hard to do and only the highest level unicorn would be able to do it Right or someone who just has an amulet But twilight wasn't able to do a little bit she got that flower to almost regress about an hour Was she or was she maybe she thought she was getting it to but she was actually just squishing it And it that's why it would pop right or maybe she was sending it slightly back in time to evening when it was closed Who knows what she was doing? Well, we do know she was doing is also lamenting the fact that she couldn't get spiked to teleport a letter back Yeah, if it was forbidden and she was not the highest level unicorn And she was not the highest level unicorn. She wouldn't have tried to do it knowing that it was forbidden She might have anyway in a dire situation I mean she broke the rule to save the crystal empire in the test and that turned out to be the right thing to do I wish it had been me who ultimately made it so But it wasn't twilight as I understand it Spike brought princess cadence the crystal heart because you weren't sure how quickly you could find a way to escape the tower You weren't willing to risk the future of the citizens of the crystal empire in an effort to guarantee your own Far better that I have a student who understands the meaning of self-sacrifice than one who only looks out for her own best interests Maybe now she has been trained to always break rules. Yeah I don't think so All right, so But get back to this she was lamenting that she couldn't get spiked to send a letter back to the princess to get help from sattel arabia Why not Spike was there. They could talk through the glass jar because okay, so if spikes, you know fire breathing teleporting is teleporting We assume it gets it's similar to twilight's teleporting, which is the number one spell The thing is it doesn't seem to require like it always gets to celestia not knowing where she is at the time I think that's what spike does. I think spike can send it where he wants I don't think he can I still think that spike is a special dragon because he was the egg They used as the test to see if someone was gene gray or not. Yeah We don't know how spike went from being born to having that ability with his fire I really think that specific ability is something that the princess sort of engineered in with some sort of technique into spike that could be Uh, but anyway, so why didn't you say it's still some sort of celestia It's still some sort of teleporting if teleporting was going to work through the glass dome Twilight could have teleported her as back into pony though We don't know that she or teleported spike out And then had him send the message and even if Trixie was just gonna kick her out of town immediately again She still could have gotten in or out of town really quickly Had spike send the message or spike could have sent the message on his fucking own No, because we know that spike isn't actually that good if a reader or a writer That we are on the precipice of disaster hold on pressure pressure Threshold that is about to happen Except he does all the writing for everybody. Yeah, he takes dictation And he has trouble with that sometimes he wrote a letter to the princess ones Yeah, but he clearly needs some assistance. How come none of the other ponies were like, why don't we ask Celestia for help? They never asked Celestia for help, but it's so weird, right? Is think about this, you know, we're sitting here and we have problems in this world But you know, we don't say hey obama. We need help No, is it mad rim? You couldn't get to the grocery store yesterday. There was a it was a mugger Why didn't you call obama for help? That's the same reason they don't call Celestia for help. It's just as stupid. It's calling obama so if uh a dragon appeared like right there on the queensboro bridge and started fucking shut up I would try to call obama. I would call 911. That's effectively calling obama. No, it's not that's calling the cops down the street So are there cops? I've never other than the royal guard. I've never seen like magistrates We've never seen anyone else enforcing the law. No judges. No one did anything when uh, no lawyers. Gilda was stealing No one did anything. No one was like swipers stop swiping There is no crime in equestria because uh, there is everyone is afraid of Celestia What I mean, are you gonna be a criminal if you know that friggin magic is gonna come down on you? You know what I might because I know that Celestia appears to be very forgiving and willing to help people out And you know where the prison is the moon. That's why I don't say it That's why you don't see any prisons or anything Everyone's looking at it all the time every night. Watch the fuck out So Trixie uh was somewhat unnerved that twilight was able to cast an age spell But apparently duplication spells are also difficult because when that's also genetic engineering you're creating life As an aside, did you notice that look that rainbow dash and fluttershy gave each other when they were looking at each other dressed up as rainbow dash They were two rainbow dash looks one was the oh, yeah look and one was the other look the other look They were both classic a plus rainbow dash looks so fluttershy was doing her rainbow dash impersonation either no matter Which one she was I imagine fluttershy practices that in the mirror Maybe So We talked before how because there's been no reference to the multiple pinkie pies I think we can assume that the real pinkie pie is trapped in the mirror world forever So the pinkie pie that happened here The fact that oh that was just pinkie pie and she was playing those 10 instruments despite not having a mouth What about the pony with the 10 instruments? That's not magic. That was just pinkie pie I What unnerved me a little was when twilight summoned or created a pear sprite Okay, here's my theory on this right because we know twilight could not do a duplication spell right only the mirror pool could do that and You know tricksy was like what the fuck and that's I guess genetic engineering creation of life But yes pear sprite is also creation of life So either explanation number one a pear sprite is much simpler easier to create Too much more reasonable. I think twilight just knows Where the pear sprites are because she you know got rid of them. She grabbed one She grabbed one teleported it in which seemed very much less how to do She summoned the pear sprite either brought it in from wherever it was Or created one and she could create one because it wasn't uh a duplicate It wasn't as complex as creating a pony though when uh the second one appeared she kind of remembered Oh, right pear sprites, but she was able to just get rid of them like poof Did she send them back or did she destroy them? Ah And if she whatever she did could she not have done it the first time the pear sprite showed up Or is it because her magic has power has increased so much and now she has that ability because everyone is good Everyone has been going on about how much better her magic is now. She's been improving She's been training under celestia. She you know saved the crystal She's moved on to the next level of magic so that must include the summoning of the pear sprites But apparently is still at least one level below Age spells and duplication spells and such and such yep Now we still I mean trixie clearly didn't think her clever plan through him And she covered the whole place Well, she didn't think of the plan her plan was get magic item to be more powerful than twilight and then Go crazy because magic item corrupts her But wouldn't it be faster if we had some Age and powerful trixie doesn't trust wheels now pull faster Hypatologist snaps she's getting weirder and weirder And then corrupt magic items started to the rest right she didn't do the rest But that's why she was sorry I've been doing this one every time someone made a force field it was a force field This one was just a summoned glass jar I don't think it was blocking teleportation I don't know plus did you notice how trixie was able to detect that someone was interfering with it right So when the beavers are smacking at it she knew the same way that we know like if someone touches You know a fence on the border right they have sensors in the control room You can see which part of the fence got hit Yep, you know she knew that the beat someone was out there messing with it and she went out So it wasn't just a glass And it was definitely magic It might have been glamour It was glass but then with a glamour to tell her if someone fucked with it Maybe but it's like Uh, you know people leave and enter Ponyville, right? Didn't someone like get trapped out like someone show up and be like what the fuck Well the apple family must have been in Ponyville at the time not at their ranch Right, it's like, you know, there are all the apple trees are definitely outside the dome Did no traders like show up. What about the train the trains the train crash into the side of this thing Yeah, why didn't the cows like stampede and smash maybe they did everything outside is in chaos Because there was no one to manage it