Talk:Apple Family Reunion/@comment-4571988-20121226202551/@comment-5870562-20121227014705

It makes me wonder what is up with Fluttershy and Rainbow, at least AJ has her siblings and Granny Smith and frequent visits to the other Apples. There has never been any kind of reference to Flutters or Rainbow's family, and its pretty much certain Rainbow has no sisters after Sleepless in Ponyville when she "adopted" Scootaloo as her sister as opposed to bringing her own. I think the reason we never see the Shy parents could make a great Fluttershy backstory episode with it possibly contributing to why she is so shy currently, and the fates of Rainbow's parents are even more interesting (Daring Do stepsisterhood anyone?). For AJ's parents, they almost certainly must have died in an accident or from disease, given that both of them are dead and apparently died concurrently, they were obviously not extremely old, since Granny Smith is much older and is still alive and in fairly good health. Additionally, they must have died some time ago, since you would assume if they were more recently dead, AJ would have reacted much more strongly at the thought of a reunion without them present. Spike reacts very strongly when he considers the fact he doesn't know his family in Dragon Quest, so I almost think AJ was very young and has only a limited memory of them, making it likely her parents died very shortly after Apple Bloom's birth. However, I love the AJ song, and this was a very solid ep overall.