>>12515
>I guess to give it a little more movement, but it does look slightly weird.
I kind of see what you mean. It's tricky when you've got both the walking motion and the neck moving the head as well, I guess it's just a quick trick to convey that for a few seconds. I think there's a similar shot in Best Friends Until The End of Time where the Mane Six walk towards the camera, by then they have a proper model for that rather than what they're doing here with the head seemingly separate.
>Is the groundskeeper pony a blank flank? Also, I am not sure if this is his first appearance. Wanna say I saw him somewhere else. I am mixed on checking Wikis for little factoids like this just because I don't want to spoil myself on stuff for the upcoming season (at least what I don't remember).
I checked the wiki, he is a blank flank and he does show up before this episode, so you're right on both counts!
>>12516
>Among the painted windows when Pinkie Pie hops into the main ballroom are painted glass windows of what appear to be several planets with rings. Considering the usage of other painted glass windows in the palace later on to commemorate specific events. I wonder if these are more than just decoration?
It lines up with Twilight's line about comets in the Owlowicious episode to suggest that space is very similar if not identical to our universe (which might tie into the Equestria-as-future-Earth theories!)
> They do exist in the narrative but some are harder to reconcile than others with a hardline version of that view. They don't bug me, but when I am trying to think of canon, that is what I get hung up on more than slapstick personally.
Since I already mentioned Best Friends Until The End of Time, that one also has aspects of the scenery not being real, but the song itself be real and occurring in-universe. My answer would be that I think the scenery in this song too is also at least partly imagination, expressing the inner feelings of the Mane Six, but that they do literally sing it. Perhaps it's even taking part in the crowd singing it as part of an annual tradition where ponies sing that song on the way to the GGG. All in all though, I think only Tolkien's elves rival ponies for a penchant to break out into song literally in the middle of things.
>Goodbye Season 1!
Agreed, it was a fun ride! I'd be curious to see how the data of our scores adds up and compares. I'll have to collect up my scores from the thread - I had them all listed neatly at the beginning of my document where I wrote all my posts down, but as I've mentioned to you, I've lost that. It's a fond farewell to season 1, and I imagine it will be for season 2 as well - in a way it feels exciting to still have a lot of good stuff ahead of us. Season 3's farewell, far in the future as it is, if we ever get there, will be more bittersweet, but definitely worth revisiting if and when we get there.