Talk:Magical Mystery Cure/@comment-5288784-20130131003059

Six stages of pony grief according to M.A. Larson (descriptions are mine):


 * 1) Denial - People at this state believes, that all this Twilight-Alicorn information are just fake, or that the crew is just trolling them, and nothing like that will happen in the actual episode.
 * 2) Anger - At this stage, people are just really mad at the whole idea. They're spamming crew's tweet feeds, are considering sending a petition letter and might even bash at people who thinks otherwise.
 * 3) Bargaining - Those people are trying to convince themselves, that this should not be taken literally: Maybe it's just a dream, alternative reality. Or, which is more common, try to prove, that this is just one-episode temporary thing and that everything will go back to normal by the end of the episode.
 * 4) Depression - Here, people are says, that the series had finally jumped the shark, and from now on it's going downhill. They're considering leaving the fandom and even makes dark prophecies about the fandom collapsing.
 * 5) Acceptance - This is where I were from the very first moment I've heard about that and I hope, that many more are going to reach this stage over the next two weeks. Those people are either happy about the whole coming change, or just don't mind either way, as long as the delivered story is well written. Some of them decide to take a reasonable approach of waitingwith their opinions until they watched the episode. Once someone reach this stage, it's almost certain, that they reach the next phase
 * 6) Watching the episode - The title is pretty much self explainatory. The final outcome is too difficult to predict, as literally anything could happen.

Keep in mind, that some of these phases may be skipped or in extreme cases, one might move backwards. Not everyone is guaranteed to reach phase 6, let alone phase 5 and 6. Those description in no way are supposed to be exhaustive (I'm not a psychologist after all).