- Return to Dragon Quest
- The angular shapes and bright colors of Rarity's camouflage dress suggests that she is taking inspiration from dazzle camouflage, used in World War I to make a ship's speed, size, and heading harder to determine.
- It is explained that dragons are "Too scary and dangerous" to be studied. But on Episode 23, the Cutie Mark Chronicles, Twilight goes to the highest quality school on Canterlot, which they somehow got themselves a dragon egg. I assume it's a common initiation test, so they should have "Surplus" eggs. Why haven't there been studies on dragon eggs or baby dragons? They aren't dangerous at all. Or even, why not ask where they got them from?
- Excellent point. Seems like a plot hole to me. I wonder if I can get in contact with one of the writers involved, preferably the one most responsible for that plot hole. Maybe they can explain this.
- There might be the possibility that Spikes' egg... was never even real to begin with, that the criteria for a new student to apply for curriculum for Celestias' School requires you to hatch a Dragons' Egg: it alone seems and sounds difficult of a test to even begin with. That the Dragon Egg Hatching Test might have been an MLP-equivalent of a Kobyashi Maru Test: a no-win scenario designed to test an applicants' skill, imagination, and aptitude for magic.
- Point 1 As mentioned prior in the show, Dragons have next-to-nothing written about them, so why would Ponies have a Dragon Egg available during a Unicorn-Only Test for hatching instead of kept safe for research and study purposes? The answer: the Egg was not even real.
- Point 2 is that Twilight was told to hatch a dragon from the egg. It's established that there is no info on Dragons already, Twilight has possibly never even seen what a dragon looks like. her only indication of a Dragons' basic adult appearance might have been from the cart that the 'Egg' was rolled in on: a design upon closer inspection reveals a telltale fact: the image has no wings on it.
- Point 3 is the largest and most crucial of them all, and heavily ties into Twilight herself by way of Spike. Upon hatching the dragon egg (along with accelerating the newborn dragons growth, solidifying a bubble around her peers, and turning her parents into topiary), Twilight is then noticed by Celestia and taken in as her own apprentice, seeing the potential she possesses... along with her hidden potential for becoming an Alicorn because Twilight had unknowingly did the impossible: creating life, from nothing.
These facts would explain why Spike has no wings, why he's the only Dragon among an entire nation of ponies, why he was left in the care of Twilight instead of taken to another Dragon; because he is a lifeform made in the image of a childs' perception of what she thought a newborn dragon was supposed to look like. Ohvist 3:11, October 10, 2016
- The place where Dragon Migration takes place bears a striking resemblance to "Badlands" from Equestria poster map. Xeoxer (talk) 15:49, January 13, 2013 (UTC)
The Scroll[]
I wasn't interested in this until now, but now I'm interested in that scroll Spike received in this episode that he didn't read! Garble read it, then burnt it up, and Twilight said, "That coulda been something important!" Well, she might not be kidding! It coulda been just a gag, but maybe it might not be!
What exactly did the scroll say? What do we think it said? Y'think we might get an answer soon?
Something else occurred to me! Someone on Equestria Daily actually told me that it mighta not been Princess Celestia that sent the scroll! It did say "From the Office of Princess Celestia", which means the message came from her office, but did it actually say it was from her? If the scroll truly came from her, then Celestia woulda told Spike personally later, but if Spike still doesn't know, then how could it have been from her in the first place? I smell a conspiracy... or just me overthinking again! XD
Then again, it mighta been a message from Shining Armor, telling Twilight that he's getting married! But that sounds a bit far-fetched cause then that woulda been mentioned in the wedding episode. Kilmarnock, I wanna hear your opinion! --Mega Sean 45 (talk) 01:05, April 26, 2019 (UTC)
- An answer seems unlikely; we're talking about a pretty minor sequence from a season two episode that wasn't a two-parter. I think that it was quite literally a throw-away gag, or just something to demonstrate what a jerk Garble was. While it could actually have been important, the fact is that Spike literally serves as the mail service between Twilight and the two sisters. Celestia could just have been writing a casual letter, or it could have just been some thing sent by one of her staff wanting to contact Twilight about some dealie or other.
- One would certainly hope that Celestia didn't choose that particular moment-perhaps aware that the Dragon Migration was underway-to be like "oh, hey Twilight, it just occurred to me that after who knows how many years I've never told you how I got Spike's egg in the first place! I tell you, anything that's not an Equestria-ending crisis just flutters out of my head within a decade or so! So anyway, the story was-"*sizzle* Still, we'll have to see what happens in Sweet and Smoky; if any episode in season nine is liable to harken back this far, it's probably that one.--Kilmarnock228 (talk) 20:39, April 26, 2019 (UTC)
- It does seem unlikey - however, there has been alota continuity in season 9 so far! We got an episode about a book Twilight threw aside in the first episode! What were the odds of that? XD --Mega Sean 45 (talk) 15:10, April 28, 2019 (UTC)