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Now, as they move on to the cloud production floor, we see something that really just puzzles me. The clouds are made more or less as real clouds are made, by condensation of water. However, this raises the question of where Cloudsdale gets the water from. Normally, it wouldn’t be a big issue to get water from the sky, but since the water cycle does not exist in Equestria, they must be getting it from the surface below. All this water needs to be enough to water the crops of all of Equestria with rain, too. My best guess is that Cloudsdale has massive water storage facilities, and it periodically moves to the ocean to refill it’s tanks. As if to contradict my earlier praise of her character, Rarity has a complete turnaround from her earlier generosity and decides to enter the competition, causing more stress for Dash. It’s not really out of character for her to be distracted by being the centre of attention, but she doesn’t do any favours for her likeability, either. In fairness, she does apologise for it later. Then, as Dash tries to avoid going out by swapping numbers, we see what looks like Dr Whooves (sorry, Time Turner, rather), but he’s a pegasus? I guess in canon they’d be separate but similar-looking ponies, or perhaps even twins. I’d say having the same cutie mark is an issue but there’s so many ponies with that cutie mark that it isn’t really. So Rarity and Rainbow Dash both leave it to the last second and go on together, then we get our Icarus moment with Rarity. And from there, we wrap it up with apologies and Dash getting to meet the Wonderbolts. Altogether, a very satisfying ending – and since I probably won’t have time to do another episode before the new year, a fittingly momentous conclusion to end the year on, I think. Overall, I would rate this episode 8.7. It mixes some of the character development of Suited for Success with the adventure of Dragonshy, plus some tasty worldbuilding, so it sits a little bit above those episodes for me.