- For the character, see Twilight Sparkle.
| Princess Twilight Sparkle - Part 2 | |
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| Season №: | 4 |
| Season episode №: | 2 |
| Overall episode №: | 67 |
| Original airdate: | November 23, 2013 |
| Written by: | Meghan McCarthy |
| Storyboard: | Sabrina Alberghetti[1] and Johnny Castucciano[2] |
| Featured characters: | Princess Celestia Princess Luna Discord |
| See also | |
| credits • transcript • gallery • allusions animation errors • statistics • speculation | |
| Episode guide | |
| Previous Princess Twilight Sparkle - Part 1 |
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Princess Twilight Sparkle - Part 2 is the second episode of the fourth season of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic and the sixty-seventh episode overall. It is the second half of a two-part episode.
After Princess Celestia and Princess Luna go missing, Twilight Sparkle and her friends search the Everfree Forest for answers and eventually find the origin of the Elements of Harmony.
Production and development[]
The script for this episode was locked in August 2012.[3]
Initially the cragadile was going to be called a rockadile, but it was already trademarked.[4]
The scene when Discord welcomes the Mane Six back from their mission reappears in Memnagerie.
Summary[]
Glimpses of the past[]
The powers of light and darkness clash.
In a throne room, Twilight Sparkle looks on as Princess Celestia appears and demands that Princess Luna, now transformed into Nightmare Moon, lower the moon that she raised to eclipse the sun. When Nightmare Moon refuses and attacks, Celestia responds by retrieving the Elements of Harmony from a hidden stone pedestal, causing Twilight to realize that she is witnessing a vision of the past. Celestia uses the Elements to cast a beam of light that overpowers her sister and banishes her to the moon.
The magic of Zecora's potion wears off, and Twilight finds herself back in Ponyville in front of the rest of the Mane Six, Spike, Zecora, and Discord. She mentions her vision but observes that it didn't give her answers about the princess' disappearance or the spikey vines encroaching on Ponyville, so Zecora suggests that she drink another dose of the potion.
Celestia, Luna, and the Tree of Harmony.
After drinking more of the potion, Twilight sees a vision of the moment Princess Celestia and Princess Luna defeated Discord using the Elements of Harmony. Twilight then finds herself in front of a crystalline tree within the Everfree Forest and watches as the princess sisters remove the Elements embedded in its branches. Celestia refers to it as the Tree of Harmony and assures Luna that it possesses a powerful magic to control and contain everything within the forest even without the Elements.
The vision ends, and Twilight tells the group that the Everfree Forest is growing out of control because the Tree of Harmony is in danger. Despite their confusion, Spike and the rest of the Mane Six agree to help save the tree and join Twilight as she sets forth into the forest.
Dangers in the Everfree Forest[]
The Everfree Forest is even more dangerous than usual.
The friends soon arrive at a wide pool of water blocking their path. A large crocodile with rock-like skin attacks as they try to cross, though they manage to restrain it after narrowly avoiding harm. Citing the danger they just faced and the need to preserve leadership in Equestria, Applejack suggests that Twilight return to the safety of Ponyville. Twilight protests, but when the rest of her friends agree to the idea and insist that they can find the Tree of Harmony on their own, she returns dejectedly to town with Spike.
Twilight arrives in town and mentions her reason for returning to Discord, who insinuates that she is abandoning her friends to ensure her own safety. Provoked by the accusation, Twilight heads back into the forest with Spike.
The Tree of Harmony has seen better days.
The rest of the Mane Six eventually locate the Tree of Harmony at the bottom of a ravine but find it covered in large, spikey vines. Their attempts to free the Tree fail, though as they begin to question their decision to dismiss Twilight, Spike shows up in a panic and alerts them that she is in danger nearby.
- "Listen here, you rabid rhododendrons! You mess with one of us, you mess with all of us!"
- — Applejack
The ponies soon find Twilight under attack by large crab-like plants and work together to fend them off. When Twilight expresses relief at being rescued, her friends concur that they are "lost without her", and the group become reconciled with a hug.
Giving up the Elements[]
Giving up the Elements of Harmony.
The ponies arrive at the Tree of Harmony, but when Twilight finds herself unable to contend with the vines attacking it, she recalls her vision of the Tree and concludes that they need to give it back the Elements of Harmony. After assuring her friends that their friendship will still keep them connected, she places the Elements back on the Tree, which sends forth a bright magical surge that disintegrates the spikey vines across the land.
The princesses looking at the chest.
As two piles of vines around the Tree of Harmony dissolve, Princess Luna and Princess Celestia appear from beneath them and commend Twilight's courage in giving up the Elements of Harmony. A large flower suddenly sprouts at the roots of the Tree and blooms to reveal a box inside with six locks. The group are puzzled by the mysterious blossom, though Celestia remarks how Twilight won't need to solve it alone.
The Summer Sun Celebration[]
As the Mane Six exit the forest, Discord appears and observes that they no longer have their Elements, though Fluttershy warns him against taking advantage of the situation lest he lose her friendship. Using another dose of Zecora's potion, Discord goes on to show Twilight how the vines that attacked the Tree of Harmony grew from "plunder seeds" he planted just before being defeated by Celestia and Luna, claiming that he previously withheld that information so she wouldn't miss out on a lesson about being a princess.
A Summer Sun Celebration to remember.
The Summer Sun Celebration proceeds as normal the next day in Canterlot, and as the sun and moon pass each other during the ceremony, Twilight flies up and creates a projection of her cutie mark that flashes across the sky.
Quotes[]
- For more quotes, see the episode's transcript.
- Princess Celestia: Even without these elements, the Tree of Harmony will possess a powerful magic. As long as that magic remains, it will continue to control and contain all that grows here.
- Twilight Sparkle: But the Tree of Harmony! I'm the only one who has seen it and knows what it looks like.
- Rainbow Dash: Huge tree, cutie marks on the trunk, probably being attacked by something hideously awful? Yeah, I'm pretty sure we'll know it when we see it.
- Twilight Sparkle: I never should have agreed to come back here.
- Spike: Come on, Twilight. Discord may be reformed, but he's not that reformed. He's just trying to get under your skin.
- Twilight Sparkle: Well, it's working!
- Rarity: The truth of it is, Twilight, we're simply lost without you.
- Rainbow Dash: Yeah. Equestria may need its princess...
- Fluttershy: But we need our friend.
- Twilight Sparkle: My new role in Equestria may mean I have to take on new responsibilities, and our friendships may be tested, but it will never, ever be broken.
- Discord: Where are those little trinkets of yours? You know, the ones you use to send me back to my extremely uncomfortable stone prison?
- Applejack: [sigh] Gone.
- Discord: Gone? Gone?
- Fluttershy: But our friendship remains. And if you want to remain friends, you'll stop thinking whatever it is you're thinking and help us clean up.
- Discord: Fine. But I don't do windows.
- Twilight Sparkle: You realize this is information we could have used hours ago?!
- Discord: And rob you of a valuable lesson about being princess? What kind of friend do you think I am?
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ Sabrina Alberghetti (2013-04-05). @BaloneyBrony Unlucky for you, I'm NOT! 402, 408 and 415 starting Monday.. Twitter. Retrieved on 2013 July 21.
- ↑ Jim Miller (2013-11-24). TheBiggestJim: @jordanolling Johnny Castucciano. Twitter. Retrieved on 2013 November 24.
- ↑ Meghan McCarthy (2013-11-22). HubTVNetwork: #MLPseason4 fun fact: The scripts .... Twitter. Retrieved on 2013 November 22.
- ↑ Meghan McCarthy (2013-11-23). It's a CRAGADILE! (Because we couldn't clear rockadile.) #MLPseason4. Twitter. Retrieved on 2013 November 23.
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