@b_jonas considering that the changelings emerged from a cursed "lake" way back to 'Swirl times, yep, she would be one of the oldest.

Also, "ponies" could be used to just refers to the protagonists - the mane six - and oldest could mean "one of the first they had meet". Unless the finale somehow manages to bring back Nightmare Moon.... I still think that Chrysalis is the best guess.

The option of the finale involving "Sun Flare/Nightmare Celestia" (something that would finally give a meaning to the still-unexplained card from about a year ago...) crossed my mind, but I wouldn't hold my hope.

It could work, and even give an explanation for the "Starlight only" thing - all the "issue" could end up to be just a test (Yep, causing a national alarm to test a single pony. Celestia would do that :P. Even better if it end up with Starlight discovering that every-single-other-pony knew.)

@b_jonas if you notice, lately each season has three map episodes (excluding finale/premiere ones), each one involving 2 of the mane six. They do that so that each character has an episode.

We had Rarity-Pinkie, last week AJ-'Shy... you should have expected Twily-Dashie by now :P

Actually this one got me wondering too. If they want to have Star getting a throne too, it leaves a spot open.

Either they start going for 2-2-3 instead or they would have to do 2-2-2-1, which is unlikely.

Unless my wishes have been granted and they will do 2+2+2+(1+Sunset), which so far seems even more unlikely.

I will be honest, I am still pretty worried.

Even considering the dragons option, one that could work somehow (even if I would prefer it to NOT involve time travel) Starlight would seem pretty forced.

Basically, the only dragon she interacted with is Spike. If they have to give us a "Dragon War" episode, I want Spike, Ember and Fluttershy (for obvious reason, who is best to go against dragons than the one who is still scared by them?)

@Derpy Um, but we do have a spoiler to tell that S24 is the third map episode.

@Derpy "the only dragon she interacted with is Spike" -- I'm not so sure. Starlight did a lot of things before this season, and definitely did a lot of research. She might know more about dragons than Twilight.

@b_jonas I know, that was my point. I meant that I was already expecting the third map episode, so the spoiler wasn't a surprise and so weren't the characters involved

@b_jonas ..... -_- do we really need to add some more "essence of the Mary Sue" to the already unstable bubbling cauldron that Starlight has been up to now?

I am already fine with all the arguments "oh, look! The new one is better than Twily at magic!" they managed to start so far.

And remember: we are already talking of the character that turned bad because her friend discovered his talent in magic and went away (which is basically a retelling of Sombra story, only difference begin that Sombra had also more "free pain" thanks to the Heart), yet managed to outshine that character in every single scene they were in....

(To the point that either he will discover he is talented at memorizing stuff but incapable to do them - something that, to put it in Scoots words - doesn't exactly seem something that "feels good to do" to him - or he will realize his real potential in a future episode)

was this one supposed to be a reference to Steven Universe?

@Derpy The spoiler was already out before S20.

@Derpy Yes, that's sort of what I'm doing with Starlight. Though in a somewhat disconnected way from the show. I have my Starlight toy and I'm going to imagine whatever I wantabout her. :-)

@b_jonas let me find a "Sad Twily" picture to make you feel remorse for forgetting the purple one. :P

@Derpy sad twily ^

So I was watching Phineas and Ferb S3, and I had a crazy thought. Apparently when a cartoon TV series is in a mid-life crisis and can't produce good episodes, they try the gimmick of making episodes that are dressed up as alternate universe ones.

Such an episode features the main cast and an ordinary story unchanged, but is shown in the past or future. Possibilities are the characters shown as teenagers, children, hundreds of years ago in the wild west, thousands of years ago in ancient egypt, in the Holywood version of prehistoric past with caveponies and dinosaurs, or in the future with robots and flying cars.

But despite the background and the appearance of characters showing such an alternate universe, the main cast just behaves as in the normal episodes, with no explanation for how that's possible.

Those episodes invariable suck. Like, big time. They're the worst episodes ever usually.

So I wonder if Equestria Girls was born as a pre-emptive strike. The MLP people were worried that the marketing department would try to force them to make such stupid alternate universe episodes in the main show continuity, so that they can sell stone age fluttershy with a pet dinosaur and newborn cutie Mane Six with cutie marks and pacifiers.

Instead of waiting for that, they made high school teenager versions of the mane cast, but made it so that they actually got a good film out of it.

And they continue that with the next two films, and hopefully with EG4 again (which will be released in a week and a half from now by the way), so that if Hasbro tries to force them to make alternate universe Mane Six, they can just point to EG.