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> Is he eating anything important or is that a cookie? 
eh, he is fine. If he didn´t do anything chaotic during all the episode, I don´t believe the way that he closed the episode affects in any sort of form.

> It's kinda funny that it was actually somewhat effective. Not in stopping them but in the fact that they actually had to think around it. They actually seemed intimidated by the fans. Was Shining right all along?
well, at least they have become more competent and sophisticated. About freaking time that the fans even made Tirek to give up with the plan for a second. About Shining´s choice, I think that he still remembers his "unique" wedding.

> when Queen Chrysalis shape shifts into a royal guard she also has a full suit of armor and a badge? Got me thinking: did she turn part of her essence into those objects or did she just conjure it up along with her disguise. The rational explanation is the latter but I could see it being the former.
I guess changeling go with the full pack of the disguise. It is indeed weird (and somewhat chaotic to think about) that the objects can become a separate thing from the disguises they copy. This could break the laws of creating and destroying matter in a small scale. 

> Spike was reading a certain comic again.
imagine thinking that the show would leave it right here...

> I wonder if this is the last will see of the Villian team before the end. 
unless The Last Problem involves them for the plot, it is the last time before the finale.

> if they don't then I will be moderately disappointed that they didn't have a bit more of a presence this season. 
prepare yourself for that...just in case.

> I think I understand what they are trying to do as in it's Rarity from a slight angle so they don't show the default side view of the head. Well at least their not with do this season but in other seasons Rarity would have just gone back to a side view default. It's the higher budget thing to try to show different angles and different faces to depart from the normal flat circle head or side view but often times it leaves us with them turning the upper snout into what looks like a giant nose and that sometimes just looks kind of unappealing. I understand them wanting to try to put extra effort and imitate the movie but in cases like this I can see those who hate them and where they are coming from. 
yeah, sometimes the simpler solutions are the best. If it´s isn´t broken, don´t fix it with another thing that leads to worse results. I will say that it doesn´t look as obvious as Celestia´s faces but yeah, the Toon Boom animation has already offered the high quality that the animators are trying to attempt within the flash style. I suppose that we´ll get used to seeing them in gen 5 with the new artstyle.

Not a bad intention (in fact, they are looking for uppering the visual aspect) but as you have cherished before, the backgrounds and the illumination are what have truly paid off here in practice.