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> in particular, a lost cloudcity would be a very interesting concept to me. They then go to visit the weather factory – now, I would assume that Cloudsdale is the only place with a weather factory, given the way it’s presented in the show. And since Pegasi have controlled the weather since before ponies even came to Equestria, this would mean that the weather factory is incredibly old, as well as being presumably irreplaceable, since we don’t know of any other cloud cities with weather factories. 
> 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
This is where your review complements mine. I had a singular focus on the magic and you foused more on the setting of Cloudsdale, as for what you propose here there is an interesting dichotomy with it that I'll (hopefully) highlight. One is a narrative inference based on the show at face value and one is a logical inference based on real world logic to some extent. I think that the weather factory, based on what we've seen so far, doesn't necessarily have to exist. Logically, it could be decentralized/or merely another place or process somewhere else. Hurricane Fluttershy I'll ignore, but considering what we have seen thus far, it doesn't necessarily need to be that much water given how magic works and how (possibly) small scale things often seem to be (one dragon being enough to put Equestria under fog for 1000 years). Now, I've done the reverse to you? Does that make me right, IDK. I actually lean towards taking the show at face value (sometimes though, that is impossible!) but I think calculating real world/real scale of things is still worth it!


> Speaking of small moments between characters, I enjoy the fact that Applejack, Rarity and Pinkie Pie were all helping Twilight tidy up
I like little moments of that nature as well!

> The other three disembark the Twinkling Balloon with a surprising degree of nonchalance – if I knew a spell was the only thing keeping me from falling through the ground, I’d be pretty scared. But then again, magic is a very reliable force in Equestria.
Agreed, you'd think a fear of heights more generally would still be in effect. Maybe just from the sheer size of Cloudale? It's hard to be afraid of heights with large buildings and places to cloudwalk? Though there still seemed to be a lot of scary places without any guardrails.

>  a lost cloudcity would be a very interesting concept to me. 
Yes! How long would it be before it decayed? A lost cloud city hidden in the eye of a hurricane? Lots of possibilities there!

> 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.
My rating as well this time is just based on personal enjoyment and 6.9 is pretty good  oh no, do I consider this scale logarithmic? LOL.  Anyways, this part of my reply is in the new year and we've been at this for a year now haven't we?Happy to be the bridge to 2025!