 So the shield has never come up before the shield almost yield before his mighty shield So the shield has never come up before and Suddenly there's a threat now who would the changelings have made a threat if they were gonna attack Where did this threat come from? It wasn't like it was they detected a threat They said there has been a threat made it has nothing to do with the wedding a threat has been made against Cantor lot but that implies It implies it's someone threatened something, but it could have just be they detected a threat You know the threat has been a threat it exists It didn't mean that somebody sent in the threat true Well, we haven't met any scrying ponies yet but so they put up the shield which we've never seen a telescope that's crying and the shield Seems to be the only defenses they actually have because what are the royal guard do all those guards are lined up to defend Equestria from this threat and yet as soon as the shields down they're completely okay because the guards did not have magical powers So then what's the point of their physically powerful guards? So if you're just you know, they can they can quell like riots or normal ponies and you know Even unicorns most of them only have one lousy magic spell like what does rarity have baby telekinesis? It's like yeah, the royal guards can take rarity right, you know, it's like and and the diamond detecting sure right But that doesn't help you take over the city every unicorn has baby telekinesis and right so the you know in candle That's mostly unicorns the Royal Guard can handle so you're saying you're saying that the Royal Guard the Royal Guard themselves are also unicorns They also have piddly mad some are unicorns some are Pegasi, but you're arguing that the Royal Guard was mobilized in this case To prevent internal dissent as They didn't know the magnitude of the threat unless the threat is an incredibly powerful magical threat or dragons or something like that The Royal Guard can handle it I point out they thought the threat was more than you're implying because one Celestia and Luna were keeping constant vigil as we saw They put up the shield which we have never seen right Which is the only spell that shining armor can cast apparently apparently I'll bet he could do like a like most unicorns He has one he probably could do a small shield easily, but he chose to do a big one. That's why it was hard Yeah, so in terms of the shield though It's definitely obvious that he could not like detect who goes through the shield But it somehow lets only ponies through because when the train went by okay It kind of opened but a little bit, but it was still had open it just sort of so one part of it became Allowable for the train a circle appeared, but it was not open there was still something there and the Membrane of the shield went over all the ponies in the train and the train and they all kind of shivered like something weird happened Yet when Luna came in the shield straight up open there was a hole in the she's easy to explain Is it that is it's because there's one more thing that you're not mentioning Which is when he remade the shield all of the change links were bounced out as it was spread they were right So he actually has two spells the create shield spell and the power up shield spell noted when he powered up the shield It didn't create a bubble that went wow and expanded it instead just went and recharge the existing shield We don't we don't right so here's how it works. So Luna. How did she get in? She just used her far power more powerful magic to open a hole. That's why it opened now Maybe she just want to if Luna was the threat that shield wasn't gonna do anything Maybe she just didn't want to feel that weird whatever because obviously it is uncomfortable to go through that shield Maybe who knows if she but how did the regular ponies get through on the train? Well, everyone points to the pointless guards with the spears, right? Maybe that was part of the spell that the guards moving their spears away is Part of the spell that allows that part to open for the train I mean shining armor is the head of the Royal Guard Right, maybe he has like these sort of glamours where those things like tell him that's part of this switch It's part of the spell that you know the Royal Guards allow people in or maybe he you know If you're if you are good and happy and nice you can get through but if you're evil you can't get through right But the question is right here's the real problem with this whole situation, right? So the evil Queen was in so it's assumed that she was in before the shield was put up And that's right, but she was bounced out when the shield was remade So he was in before the shield was there in the first place Wouldn't she have been bounced out when the shield was originally put up so thus perhaps, you know But originally when I saw this I thought that maybe the shield just by default lets ponies through I know we did not see a single non pony other than arguably the alicorn sisters because they're kind of special Mm-hmm in this entire, you know royal wedding so maybe only ponies can get through So the changeling in pony form Well, I mean animal, you know, there's animals in the Royal Gardens where they we didn't see any they weren't bounced out Had they perhaps been evacuated ahead of time, you know, the Phoenix wasn't bounced out. No But perhaps the shield only lets ponies through unless someone takes some action I think it just lets through and I think it's just sort of shining armor But he doesn't have to consciously think of who to let we know He doesn't have to consciously think because he was surprised by Twilight being there I've got something to say to you mister Swily right so he didn't detect her coming through exactly He doesn't have to consciously think about who gets through but it's like, you know, it's it's controlled by him, right? They have no one else has anything to do with it Yeah, so it's his feelings if he's feeling good about you you're getting in so he was feeling good about the Queen who Deceived him and let her in right. He wasn't feeling so good about the you know The evil changelings that weren't even disguised at the time so they weren't getting in And that's pretty much all there is to it, you know It's obviously not a very high-quality shield because it can be smashed physically with enough But it was only smashed because he was so drained he hadn't well it wears off So he couldn't recharge. Yeah, I'd recharge it and you can physically break it just pounding on it You know so that's all there is to it