Talk:Magical Mystery Cure/@comment-1037137-20130309042150/@comment-2170890-20130309203447

 @Fire Eater: Yes, it is possible to tell a story where most of the episode is comprised of singing – the songs themselves contain some of the story. That is how musicals work, and this episode was designed as a musical, and the only thing that comes close to being rushed about this episode is that it was most likely not supposed to be the final trial before Twilight became a princess (not an alicorn), but rather the episode that showed that the trials existed, and that some of the events that took place in the show were them too.

 No one’s saying that Twilight becoming an alicorn was planned from the beginning – it obviously wasn’t. What I am saying is that Twilight was going to become a princess eventually, and there are hints towards it throughout the show. I know Lauren wasn’t there for season 3, but the storyline for Twilight to become a princess was decided when she was still planning the show, and if she had stayed or had been allowed to keep some level of control over the show for season 3 onwards, it probably would have happened later, and the hints would have been more in your face during the last few episodes leading up to it. The hints towards it were less in your face mostly because it’s only been three seasons, but they clearly existed. Alicorns and Princess were never supposed to be synonymous, so when I defend Princess Twilight for being planned, I am not including her transformation to being an alicorn into this. That said, I still don’t see how such her being an alicorn will affect the show so much, other than ignore established history within the show. The only change that will really happen to Twilight is that she can now fly, and Lauren always stated that she was going learn levitation eventually and even planted hints she would while she was still working on it. So Twilight would have still been capable of some form of flight eventually. So she looks a little different, that’s the only real change.