Talk:Twilight's Kingdom - Part 2/@comment-10390252-20140510151634

So, let's run it down:

1) As I and many others predicted, Discord went back to being an antagonist but not as a mastermind as we all feared but as a stooge/sidekick;

2) The Princesses all live and have their power back; Ghost, you're not allowed to post theories anymore;

3) The Rainbow Power forms were even more eye-straining than I feared; I hope they clean them up before Season 5;

4) We now know why Friendship Castle looks like a crystal tree - the Chest was, in fact, a seed of the Tree of Harmony, so the new tree-palace is, in fact, a second Tree of Harmony;

5) Celesticord Shipping now canon?

This is probably the first episode of MLP that has had a significant element of continuity to it - relying on prior episodes to set the story. This was a new thing for the team and, whilst I think that the meta-arc could have been handled better, it was done well enough here. The pacing was good, as was the build-up of tension and the presentation of the threat.

Tirec was every bit the Devil Incarnate of the Pony world as he was in G1; not even Discord was powerful enough to stop him and certainly wasn't smart enough to outwit the Lord of Lies (Equestria Edition). The team are going to be hard-pressed to top him in future epics, if they can!

Overall, I think everypony can agree that Season 4 went off on a high note.