Talk:Apple Family Reunion/@comment-78.133.43.181-20121222160330/@comment-72.68.232.68-20121222185512

Not quite. Faust and the other writers had other ideas about what happened to Applejack's parents. One of them was that her parents were traveling salesponies, that traveled around the world, but were too busy to ever see their own families. That said, they probably were the only ones who didn't show up (though Applebloom probably didn't count them, since she may have already known that they weren't coming)

The shooting stars could symbolize that Applejack is remembering that they're still out there, in the large world, and that they would've been proud of what she did, if they were there...