Talk:Transcripts/Princess Twilight Sparkle - Part 2/@comment-14250-20140521224551

Even if this is a legitimate flashback to the past...

Notice that all Luna/NMM says is that she wants to be the one princess, that she has a royal duty to destroy Celestia, and appears to be ignoring Celestia's order to lower the moon...

While Transcripts/Friendship is Magic, part 1 does have the narrator (of the legend, not necessarily the facts) say "the younger unicorn refused to lower the moon to make way for the dawn" it also adds "She vowed that she would shroud the land in eternal night"

Why do we not hear such a vow in this vision? Could it be that Luna/NMM actually never made such a vow? Are we to believe that it was made prior to the events in the vision?

Sounds to me like the "eternal night" stuff was embellishment by Celestia to make her little sister sound more villainous and her banishment more justified.

One could argue that Luna/NMM was shirking the duty to lower the moon... but shirking that duty does not at all doom the land to eternal night. Celestia is perfectly capable of lowering that moon herself, and managed to do both jobs simultaneously for a thousand years.

Was Luna actually stopping Celestia from lowering that moon? Or was Celestia enraged by her sister's disobedience and trying to bully her into doing the job?

We do not see the events that precede Twilight's vision. Celestia may have initiated the attacks, trying to coerce Luna into fulfilling her duties as Celestia saw (and perhaps dictated) them. Luna may merely have wanted the sun job, and went on strike, hoping that Celestia would back down and do the moon-lowering and let Luna have a shot at the celebrated sun-raising job.