@b_jonas I had the exactly opposite impression: the episode used fan fiction as a source of ideas for the alternate futures.

Anyway, we now know the plot of Season 6 premiere: Rainbow Dash tries to hijack the map because she wants to go to the "Sombra War" future...

(but seriously, what was the ending meant to mean? Will Starlight Glimmer stuck around or is she supposed to return to the village and become a recurring character?)

Are they going to become the backup main six?

Derpy: the Element of Security (meaning that you can be sure she will break something :P)

Trixie: Element of Entertainment (same as Pinkie, but you need to buy your ticket first)

Moon Dancer: Element of Gurren Truth (Don't be true to yourself, Moon Dancer. Be true to me who is true to you)

Rara: Element of Charity (wait, there is one that actually works??)

Starlight: Element of I could be Kind if I tried (really, do you realize you just did exactly what Sombra did? And at least he had a bigger problem....)

and finally:

Discord: Element of Best Princes (Trolling is Life)

@Derpy Both, yes.

Also, I now claim the almightyest spoiler of them all: with 2 years lead time, I am going to predict the 2017 movie.

You realized that every future was an enemy never took care of?

Well. The final "bare land" future is what would happen if they weren't there in the movie.

@Derpy Why the movie specifically? Why not the season 6 plot?

@b_jonas because it was too destructive, so I think they will keep that for the movie.

@Derpy It didn't seem destructive to me. They just arrived to an abandonned part of the land.

@b_jonas Naahhh. I think that that was all what was left.

I should check again, but I think you can barely see the map, and notice that nothing is left there. Only beyond the sea some mountains stand.

@Derpy Hmm. So it's that dangerous not to be friends with the yaks and the griffons?

@b_jonas I think that the movie will have a villain that will make Tirek seem a nice diversion. That one empty land was the result.

On a different, unrelated, notice. I just realized that the image from the CCG card was no were to be found in the finale. So that must be from season 6

@b_jonas You saw that then?

yes, that one.

@Derpy Yes, and someone did bring it up again as yet another possible cause for the last alternate timeline.

@b_jonas possible, but eternal sun don't seem as much destructive.

Could work, we don't know the effect the sun would have on the temperature.

Maybe the land was in that state because "too hot"

Maybe all was turn into a desert

I don't know really, because I can imagine lots of different causes. Besides yaks, Nightmare Twilight from the human world tearing up the spacetime with portal rifts is another one.

Tornado Bolt is a changeling, I'm so happy with that. Scootaloo is not alone in Ponyville secretly hiding as a changeling.

@b_jonas During the whole ending song, I had a mental picture of the post credit hasbro logo begin replaced by a clip of EG3 ending. Pony Twily pulls out Starlight from the portal and goes something like "BTW, I have found the real genius that made all the rifts with all the jumping back and fort thru time. Fluttershy, do you still need that workers for the animal care clinic? I am so leaving her here for a while".

there are so many brilliant spoof that this finale could have.

I want an alternate version of the "you are needing more than that" Starlight quote when Twilight replies with the Kamehameha beam from the season 4 finale.

@b_jonas I hope they weren't fool enough to have him running around all the time and never check him with the magic paint/sand/mud. My canon is that the original one was replaced just before Chrysalis's attack

Between the first and second alternate future, when Starlight encases Twilight in a solid block and drops that block from Cloudsdale to the ground, then there's an ad break, then Twilight breaks herself out from the block magically while she's still quite far from the ground, were you also disappointed because she's ruined the chance for Rainbow Dash or Scootaloo to rescue them the last second, with possibly a Sonic Rainbow?

Also later, when Zecora says "Beneath this salve, no changeling hides, for it reveals the truth inside.", were you afraid that it would turn Twilight back to a blankflank unicorn with very little magical talent who's never seen the Sonic Rainbow?

@b_jonas actually, I was expecting that at the start of the episode, soon after the past is changed.

Lucky for them, Equestria follows Chrono Triger time travel rules.

@b_jonas Actually, I was hoping for Lesson Zero Twily to use her magic to accelerate an unwilling Dashie to Rainboom speed....

@Derpy hehe

I am also guilt of having hope for a less pacific finale.

I hoped that in the end all the ponies from the alternate future would have come in, because the portals didn't really close well, and they would be as expected a little mad...

But really, I didn't get if the finale means "you have won a new main character" or what.

@Derpy I don't think it does.

In a certain way, I hope so.

If they have to, I want Trixie or Sunset

(or Derpy)

Yes, many people asked for Sunset.

@b_jonas She has a better design.

Furthermore, we didn't really get many Starlight cute faces.

And I am not a real fan of his hair style.

Speaking of hair style....

^ check the finale, she has already started morphing.

In this one, Rarity had the strange hairstyle.

In Nightmare Moon's castle that is.

I will have also to check that. The armor reminded me of the Moon Armor set from Legend Of Equestria.