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

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Now you KNOW they could have done better. Remember when Twilight picked a crapton of apples with her magic in one episode? WHY DIDN'T SHE DO THAT?

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Because Twilight clearly entered the Konami code when she did her magic in Episode 4.

I guess they were afraid to have Twilight's magic be the answer to everything. Very tricky business when you have a main character with such (currently) unlimited potential, because you risk her being a Mary Sue type if she can magic every single problem. If you ever played Dungeons and Dragons 3.5 edition, you could see how big a problem magic is, because magic trumps everything else in the game, nothing else ever came close. EVERYTHING could be solved with magic if you have a creative enough mind to make the best use of the rules.