History FridgeBrilliance / MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicSeason7

* Flurry Heart shows that she's a born leader when she steps in to resolve a problem between two parties. Too bad as a baby, she's not mentally mature enough to realize that JudgmentOfSolomon only works when you threaten to break the toy in half, causing the two parties to reconcile to prevent the toy from being broken. Breaking the toy in two before threatening to is going to lead the two parties reconciling only out of anger towards the one who broke their toy.

[[folder: Celestial Advice]]

[[folder: All Bottled Up]]

[[folder: A Flurry of Emotions]]

[[folder: Hard to Say Anything]]

[[folder: Honest Apple]]

[[folder: A Royal Problem]]

[[folder: Not Asking for Trouble]]

[[folder: Discordant Harmony]]

[[folder: The Perfect Pear]]

[[folder: Fame and Misfortune]]

[[folder: Triple Threat]]

[[folder: Campfire Tales]]

[[folder: Daring Done]]

[[folder: A Health of Information]]

[[folder: To Change a Changeling]]

[[folder: It Isn't the Mane Thing About You]]

** In other words, this episode acts as an AccidentalAesop to indirectly teach kids there ''are'' [[FateWorsethanDeath worse things than dying]], and to appreciate [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome the natural order]] of the real world.

* The outfit Discord lands on for his tea party is a Mr. Rogers outfit. Mr. Rogers always talked about how children were special the way they are, so this outfit subtly hints at the aesop of the episode.

*** Stygian's virtue, in order to bacome the Element of Empathy could be Wisedom, since he was the brains of the Pillars

* This episode deconstructs NeverSayDie in much the same manner that the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse cartoons enacted WriterRevolt against ExecutiveMeddling. Ponies are coming down with an incurable plague that will eventually [[BalefulPolymorph transform them]] into the trees the plague originated from to continue the plague's lifecycle. This is a TV-Y7 program, though, so the writers are forbidden from directly stating that this is fatal to the victim. So they don't. Instead, they leave the implication open that [[FateWorseThanDeath the unfortunate victim lives through the final stages of the plague]] [[AndIMustScream and watches helplessly as their spores infect other ponies with it.]] That's ''so'' better than being dead, right?

* The Map calling [[spoiler: Starlight makes a lot of sense. It's because she's not as biased towards the princesses as the Mane Six are. As well as not ones to try and argue with the princesses. Starlight was a political leader longer than any of the Mane Six, thus making her more able to coordinate with royals. Plus she's more blunt and to the point; she's not gonna tip toe over any of this like Twilight was thinking of doing. That was really the only way anything would get resolved. JUST not in the way the map was likely expecting.]]

** In other words, this episode acts as an AccidentalAesop to indirectly teach kids there ''are'' [[FateWorsethanDeath worse things than dying]], and to appreciate [[RealityEnsues the natural order]] of the real world.

* The journal is suppose to cover events from seasons 1 to 4 of the series. That timeline includes the events of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls1'' (and possibly ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks Rainbow Rocks]]'' since the film is set between seasons 4 and 5, and is unknown when exactly they stopped using the diary). So then why nopony reacts to either the existance of the human world, Sunset's actions, or (keeping in line with the episode's theme) how rushed her redemption was? Simple. Twilight removed that part from the published version. There's no way to tell what would happen if the existance of an alternate world with less magic in comparation to Equestria became public knowledge. And since Twilight didn't wanted to neither cause massive panic at Equestria over the existence of another dimension, nor endanger the human world and her friends there if somebody like Tirek or Chrysalis heard of it, she choose to omit it from the published version.

* Why was Celestia so worried about letting Twilight go, when that was the best time for her favorite student to grow? Because at that time, Luna was still Nightmare Moon, meaning Twilight was the closest thing she had to a real family at the time. Celestia was afraid of being alone again, which is why she couldn't let Twilight go until circumstances forced her to.

* Why did Pinkie take so much offense to Rainbow Dash lying to her about her pies for years? Starlight's [[BrutalHonesty brutally honest]] comment about Pinkie meddling between her and Maud's friendship in "Rock Solid Friendship" highly likely has something to do with it, as said comment ended up causing Pinkie to realize what she did wrong at the first place. From this, Pinkie knows how much honesty, no matter how brutal it is, could likely help solve a problem faster rather than covering it with a lie and dodging the problem on hoof-- which was unfortunately what Rainbow Dash was doing almost the entire episode.

* Princess Cadence mentions that she used to be in Twilight's position, trying to please every pony but herself, and it took Flurry Heart for her to draw the line. Perhaps, in Part 2 of "A Canterlot Wedding", she wasn't just being humble and content when she accepted the Mane 5's specifications to her wedding. Perhaps, she was being too kind for her own good. It wasn't until Flurry Heart pushed her limits as a tireless, unconditionally loving mother that [[CharacterDevelopment she learned to be kind to herself as well]].
** Fridge-Heartwarming: Flurry Heart helped her mom draw the line not just for herself as a princess, but also for her daughter. Cadence would probably have no problem giving ''all'' her time to the Crystal Kingdom if she could. But when her baby filly came along, there was something more important in her life to devote that time to.