Quote Originally Posted by MJN SEIFER View Post

Also, I love the episode ("Luna Eclipsed", that is) and got the storyline of the episode, but why did the mane six not remember Luna being good now, or was the whole thing an act to make it scarier or something (it was their version of Halloween) That's the impression I came up with the first time I watched it, mostly after Pinkie saying something about it being fun to be scared (and she was the one who was "warning" everyone most of the time) but most ponies seemed genuinly scared, so I'm confused...
I think it was mostly just Fluttershy who was legitimately scared because she's scared of everything. The others were probably just being trepidatious. I mean, it's been traditional to be cared of Nightmare Moon even though people assumed it was just a pony story. The mane 6 certainly know better and being surrounded with the holiday and it's lore probably doesn't make the whole situation comfortable.

Of course, that's my "justifying it" answer, but it's probably more likely that, like Owloysius, many of the reactions are to move the episode forward. Even Pinkie, who obviously knows better and just wants to be scared, did it up a little too much in the alley when TS nabbed her and she was confronted by NM.