Talk:The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000/@comment-87.54.33.238-20120217135915/@comment-87.54.33.238-20120217155729

Any of the following plot-twists could have made the decision much more justified:


 * It was a polluting process - I doubt the inhabitants of Ponyville take well to rampart consumerism disregarding the impact on nature.
 * It brought imbalance in magic (don't ask me how, it's magic.)
 * They need baby blood to power it - because it's EEEEWUUUL!
 * The quality is greatly decreased - could have led to a far more satisfactory story development through the initial craze about "high quantities" of cider, but eventually turns out to work in the Applejacks' favor when the citizens would rather value quality over quantity. Predictable? Why of course, but so was this, just in a worse way, imho.
 * It's creating an iron-grip monopoly on apple trade that potentially could quench upstart apple-productions-.. oh wait, the Applejacks have the monopoly.. no change there.
 * The process is all illusions, vile trickery and cheating. That'd actually warrant the label "Con-men" for the Flim-Flams.

Instead, it turns out to be a thinly veiled, poor stab at the "scary machines of tomorrow" that come and effectively replace age-old working methods in a heartbeat, and do so justifiably. It's like listening to the age-old people who were convinced the telephone was just a momentary craze and "it'd never catch on".