Talk:Shadow Play - Part 2/@comment-4747450-20171220191554/@comment-25559529-20171220223258

1) With the journal? Yeah, sure, but only Fame and Misfortune really depended on it. Otherwise...


 * Sunburst: Solving a thousands-year-old mystery could take forever!


 * Rarity: This mystery is over a thousand years old, after all.


 * Fluttershy: Even then, I'm not sure we'd find out what happened here over a thousand years ago.


 * Sunburst: What's "out there" about saving the most legendary ponies of all time from a thousands-year-old prison?


 * Twilight Sparkle: You and the others have been trapped in limbo for over a thousand years


 * Mage Meadowbrook: How long have we been gone?
 * Fluttershy: Over a thousand years.


 * Star Swirl the Bearded: This map, and indeed this very castle, are grown from the seed we planted over a thousand years ago.


 * Princess Celestia: Well, it has been over a thousand years.

They kinda hammer it in a lot.

2) I actually already have an explanation for this, but it would require a lot of talking about other things to explain it.

3) Yep, this is totally Rarity's aura.

4) Flash Magnus probably fought a lot in the Dragon Lands, where else would Mistmane's flower be, no one knew where specifically Rockhoof's shovel was, we've seen Meadowbrook's mask before, but yeah, the blindfold was just an excuse for a cheap joke.

5) Okay.

6) I have to disagree about that in this particular story due to the way magic is handled here, but this can really go either way.

7) Perhaps Twilight thought the objects were specifically a gateway for each individual Pillar rather than opening a portal at all?

8) Yep, this "I lost a friend = bitter and angry" is so boring by this point.