Talk:Hurricane Fluttershy/@comment-74.12.16.111-20120326231422/@comment-68.46.218.162-20120328041926

Another issue in Mare Do-Well is the Pinkie Sense. By basing the evidence in Feeling Pinkie Keen, including a quote from the pony herself, Pinkie has no control over her Pinkie sense, nor is it explained why it works. And for Pinkie, that is perfectly acceptable for her character, we have excepted her many feats of disbelief.

Essentially Pinkie Sense has no practical application until after its triggered (something's gonna fall, duck for cover...). As Twilight found out, its not something to rely on. Mare Do-Well pulls feats of agility that would've been better justified with Applejack's rodeo training, than with Pinkie's Pinkie Sense. The only reason that it was called out at the very end was for Merriwether to have an excuse to include Pinkie as part of the Mare Do-Well conspiracy against Rainbow. As a little side not, in It's About Time, Pinkie Sense is referenced by Twilight, who is expecting it to work the way it apparently did in Mare Do-Well....

Pinkie's response, “My fortune-telling has nothing to do with my Pinkie Sense, silly, its only for VAGUE and immediate events.” *twitch* *pot falls* "Where did that even come from?"

Just another piece of canon that makes that episode stick out of the rest canon.