Talk:Granny Smith/@comment-66.229.131.23-20120307203454/@comment-3304472-20120504170556

With this sort of inconsistency, there's a particular way of looking at canon that I'm very fond of, where there's an "actual" storyline that has always existed, but requires occasional tweaking to turn it into a good narrative storyline. For example, in this case, I'd say that the scriptwriters for Winter Wrap-Up decided to use "centuries" instead of "century" for dramatic effect. While the official date of Ponyville's founding could probably be debated, we can still all agree that the Earth Pony founders were Granny Smith's parents, and the span of time since then could reasonably be rounded and referred to as a century.