Talk:Twilight Time/@comment-10390252-20140113132157

Seriously, all the Doctor Who fan references aside, I am fairly sure about one thing.

Due to Twilight's Hot Minute, I've got a strong feeling that we're going to see Starswirl in this season. I don't know if he's going to be a recurring character. However, my gut tells me that this episode will be when Twilight meets him. Either she will travel back or he will travel forwards and the two will meet.

What happens next is very much dependent on how Sabrina writes the character and what Meghan's long-term plan is. If he's a grumpy but fundamentally decent old academic, the story could be as simple as Twilight teaching an old unicorn whom Celestia told her didn't really 'get' friendship a little of the magic she had discovered.

If that lack of understanding of friendship was part of a far more malign, egotistical and narcissistic personality that is seeking power (and the text of his Last Spell suggests that just that) then Twilight Time could go in a completely different direction. I won't go in too much detail here because you're meant to keep comments short but, if Starswirl turns out to be an antagonist character who travelled to the subjective present in search of clues in his quest for power then he could easily become a recurring threat for the rest of the season, leading up to a final confrontation in the season climax.

It's even possible that he has been hanging around for a while and several of the otherwise-inexplicable epilogue teasers may have been early clues that a powerful mage is playing his own games.

I just want to add that I'd love Starswirl to be voiced by Patrick Stewart. Why? Because then Starswirl could get into an argument with Discord and we could enjoy Q baiting Mon Capitan all over again! :-D