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So after watching MYM’s pilot for the third time tonight, I saw proof that G5 has been keeping track of continuity from the outset. I HOPE I’m not the first person who’s noticed this…
Also, remember that scene where Dapple is eating food out of the trash? Watch TYT’s Friday Night Food Fight, which came way after this special, some time. :3 The people working on G5 “just forget” this stuff that virtually no one catches, SURE.
Have noted this from the very beginning in MYM, and this was repeated in the Discord Arc in IDW comics where you could see that the magic seemed to have “gone berserk”, this produces several hypotheses that the magic may have disappeared because it had become unstable when pony tribes came out in conflict with each other. I guess it’s because the surroundings are “polluted” with negatively charged magic - and already very early in G4 there were fan theories that the ponies had to be nice to each other so that their magic wouldn’t affect the surroundings - and attract windigos who want to exterminate them.
I guess already back then Twilight may have had the Unity Crystals made to bring magic under control and we saw this to be the case. It wasn’t just to protect the magic from Opaline, who knowingly creates magical instability to make it stronger and easier to assimilate. She admitted this when she witnessed how the earth pony magic got out of control. This is a common thread throughout G5 that is partly buried by the newer writers who took over, when they realized that it will be too difficult to explain, although the Set Your Sail Arc in IDW has returned to this with the seven magical anchors surrounding the magic of the oceans .
Magical instability that is not necessarily only due to Opaline must be considered a fact as part of the G5 lore and it is possible to find evidence of this in the critters who had lost their magic along with the ponies and finally Discord himself, who has pony parts in his chimeric body. These critters with wings and horns were not seen in G4 because they probably did not exist then. If these had their own magic, they wouldn’t have lost magic along with the ponies. In the depths of the seas, the sea ponies had managed to retain their magic, but “something” had happened that the arc will explain in the future.
If this explanation of the ponies losing their magic through a voluntary act of sacrifice was fact, we could accept this. But that’s not right. We learned that it is possible to take apart the Unity Crystals because the ponies will not lose their magic right away. But these have to be reassembled every now and then to keep the magic “alive” like with a battery for an electric bike in the winter, when it has to be charged every three months. It explains what was seen in the Maretime Bay lighthouse before it was destroyed.
I was angry when information from a canceled book was released as MYM ends, as it was written in black and white that if the Unity Crystals are separated from each other for too long, the magic will disappear by itself. According to Izzy, the magic had just disappeared. Pop. Yes, pop. Then one had learned from the book in MYM chapter 2 that it was the guardians who were responsible for the Unity Crystals, probably after Twilight had disappeared and Equestria was still united. But the guardians began to forget what their mission was, and broke up with each other. A collective amnesia hit the ponies, which may have been magical because after Opaline removed all magical spells, ponies were seen to start remembering things related to magic in TYT 2.0.
Can only hope that the new writers rewrote the information about how the pony magic disappeared, although we still don’t know what happened after Spike and the dragons went into hibernation and what made Twilight leave Equestria, or how the world crumbled after her departure.
- Magic had become unstable, cause never explained.
- Magic thieves like Opaline had to be prevented from taking all magic.
- Magic had to be regulated to prevent uncontrolled magic.
- We don’t know why Twilight Sparkle left Equestria.
- We don’t know what happened to Twilight in her fight against Opaline.
- We don’t know why the ponies “forgot”, especially about the Unity Crystals.
- We don’t know the full story of all the spells around Equestria.
We had recently learned that the weather control in Equestria that was done manually by the pegasi had been automated. We recently read in the IDW comics that the magic in the oceans had to be regulated to prevent catastrophic events. When the TYT episode about the supercharged moon was aired, no one understood how it happened, but the celestial bodies move by themselves. This could be proof that the magical world had been fundamentally changed - so much so, that much of the G4 lore is no longer valid.
All this rests on one fact; a need for regulation of magic.
Why?
