Talk:Friendship is Magic, part 1/@comment-25559529-20170731013226

I'm going to start rewatching the series from the beginning, but before I do that, I'd like to point his out.

If it wasn't for Lauren Faust trying to push her perfunctory "Celestia has divine sight" drivel, think about how this would have gone.

That specific Summer Sun Celebration (where Nightmare Moon returned) just happened to be the one that checking on the preparations of would get Twilight out of the tower.

Celestia would be telling Twilight to drop the issue because she doesn't want Twilight to wander into danger. Moving the celebration to Ponyville would not only get Twilight out of harm's way, but it would also fulfill a secondary motive (put Twilight in a very hospitable place, where she would meet people).

Celestia would be trying to fight NMM on her own (as implied by Re-Mark) and fail. I like to think that what Celestia says at the end ("I saw the signs of Nightmare Moon's return and I knew it was you who had the magic inside to defeat her") was just being made up on the spot to save face, and she would later explain to Twilight in private what really happened (So the sentence "I told you that you needed to make some friends, nothing more" would be more powerful.).

Also, I'd like to ignore that Celestial Advice shows that she had these five specific ponies in mind. It's much better for this episode that Twilight met her new friends by chance.