Talk:Swarm of the Century/@comment-89.2.180.117-20130621155920

I have a feeling that Celestia knew exactly what was going on. When she's talking to Twilight and the rest, she has an eyebrow raise and you can definitely hear the air quotes when she mentions an "infestation". She really prompted Twilight to think up the friendship report based on Pinkie. Then when the girls talk to Pinkie after she's done playing, they all have raised eyebrows when mentioning the "infestation" in "fillydelphia".

So why did Celestia not stick around to help Ponyville - well, it would be OOC, as the plot is always conveniently set up so that the almighty ruler can't actually fix everything. But more logically: she saw Pinkie using the proper method for disposing of the parasprites, and she knew that the only thing left to do after that would be to fix the city. She didn't want to shame Ponyville by setting her royal hooves in their devastated town, and just pretended that she didn't know. So she gave the excuse of an emergency somewhere else.

She did mention the "infestation" as a wink to Twilight, though. When she said that she was impressed by Twilight's friends and their knowledge, I'm pretty sure that meant kudos to Pinkie Pie. When Twilight told Pinkie that Celestia could handle the "infestation", I think it's definitely because she knew there wasn't one.