Pony General:"Season 12 will never air" edition.

 Spoiler

>being surprised by the twilight thing

guys like for the entire show celestia has been grooming twilight politically for leadership
>write me letters about friendship
>write me letters of how you understand how people interact with each other
>almost always takes the lead
>celestia gives them her greatest enemy as a plaything as their final test, to see if they can make someone whose ways were literally set in stone change via what she taught / learned from her friends

i mean seriously how could you have not seen this coming

>luna raises the moon with magic
>celestia raises the sun with magic

>twilight controls magic

she's going to end up the most powerful being in the land.
alternate theory: celestia knows twilight has immense power, and has her off in the boonies learning how to be a good person, and the friendship letters were celestias version of a sanity check, because if someone with that much power were to go full darklord. RIP