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Let’s dive in! ‘’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 > Potted plant, anvil, hay, a panio I disagree that Twilight Sparkle was a bad scientist or being an idiot, it was just the trope of the skeptic being skeptical while reality proved contrary. Even then, while frustrated she was still trying to gather data and hadn’t fully “snapped” in the way of her freakout towards the end of Swarm of A Century or had retreated into her book like in Look Before you Sleep (and both of those aren’t necessarily bad either). I still laughed at these and enjoyed most of them. (Personal favorite being the basement door slam for whatever reason) and I considered it slightly surprising as show with a higher age rating had often censored direct impact cartoony violence like that and a discourse that suggested that sort of violence had gone very far out of style (at least that was my impression) Grew up with boomerang (TV channel that showed old cartoons) so I might have greater appreciation than some. I do think sometimes stuff like that can be offputting and overdone as well. Actually, a lot of times when other cartoons tried (and perhaps FiM in a future episode if I recall) to do this in the 2000s something often felt off to me but not here.