Talk:My Little Pony The Movie/@comment-3410511-20171212072250/@comment-5837525-20171212162503

Such scenes would've just padded out the runtime. Besides, as far as "checking up on how Canterlot was doing", we pretty much did get that with the aforementioned Storm-King-calling-Tempest scene and the scene with Songbird Serenade singing in a cage.

The writers and producers obviously wanted to keep the film under a specific length, and they put in what they felt was most important to tell the story and keep it moving without dragging things out.