‘’Spike! This magic needs our full attention to make it happen. There's no other way!'’
So, we see Twilight Sparkle practicing magic with Spike helping as her “guinea pig” though admittedly that sounds a little too strong of a wording. I can always get distracted with little starting scenes like this and this one stood out for two reasons: Pinkie’s interruption. Upon Spike being distracted by Pinkie Pie, the rock that was turned into a hat reverts into a rock. Why does a slight distraction cause the rock to revert? Is there a window of time when something is transformed that it can revert back? Like it needs to be held in place? The tuxedo and leaves don’t revert back (but do vanish in the next shot, albeit, a lot of that happens this episode and I think it mostly should be taken as cartoon logic... mostly).
Reason two: Upon ‘’Spike'’ being distracted by Pinkie Pie, the rock that was turned into a hat reverts into a rock. It seems like Spike himself also needed to have his attention on the Twilight/the rock for it to work. What roll does Spike play here? This is 30 seconds in, lol, I am focusing too much on this scene but I think it is weird and possibly is an attempt to justify something later on.
Twilight Sparkle is at first, understandably dismissive of Pinkie Pie and her antics, but as bad luck ramps up, she starts to frantically try to disprove/understand it. At first Twilight is a little obsessive and as it goes on. I have often seen people say that Twilight Sparkle being a bad scientist who is more eager to disprove than to understand and analyze cautiously and something thinking Twilight having held the idiot ball to some degree. Considering the sequence of events:
>Frog >Falls in a ditch >Mud splash >Alligator in bathtub >Door slam by the front door of the library >Door slam in the basement of the library >Bees! >Fell into apple cellar
