Talk:Episodes, films, and shorts/@comment-10390252-20150405143720

I'm thinking that we're going to get six episodes (or possibly five plus the finale) where the Mane Six demonstrate their particular skills to the optimum and unlock their Cutie Mark Magic.

Rarity - Beauty

Applejack - Agriculture

Pinkie Pie - Parties (obvious Cheese Sandwich return episode opportunity)

Rainbow Dash - Speed and aerobatics (She finally becomes a full Wonderbolt?)

Fluttershy - Animal communication

Twilight Sparkle - Magic

I'm pretty sure that there is going to be a magical duel between Twilight and Starlight at the climax of the finale that will be a mix of her duels with Trixie and Tirek - More real magic than with Trixie and less brute destruction than with Tirek.

Prediction

The Finale will feature Starlight Glimmer trying to use the Cutie Map to pervert Harmony and turn it into her dystopian ideal of total conformity and equality throughout Equestria. Twilight will defeat her, unlocking her Cutie Mark Magic and then the Six will use the Rainbow Power to undo all the harm Starlight has ever done.

Because Harmony carries with it a concept of justice, Starlight Glimmer will then be given what she has always wanted for everyone except herself - to be without any exceptional aspect. The Rainbow Power will strip her of her Cutie Mark and all but the smallest sliver of her magic. Defeated, Blank Flank, stripped of even her desire to control others' nature and far sadder than angry, she flees Ponyville only to encounter the Cutie Mark Crusaders on the outskirts.

"Well, are you going to mock me?" she'll ask.

Silently, the three fillies will tie a CMC cape around her (it looks more like a neckerchief than a cape on a full-grown mare). "This is your second chance - now you can find a talent that really helps everypony instead of hurts them!"

"I... don't know how to do that," she'll admit.

"S'alright; we'll explain it to y'all," Apple Bloom assures her. The Crusaders them lead her off towards their clubhouse with a slow instrumental of "Cutie Mark Crusaders" playing in the background.