Quote Originally Posted by Uncle Big Hands View Post
I actually wasn't bothered by them bringing up that Sweetie Belle was Rarities sister. It was introduced quite cleanly I thought, and more importantly she wasn't brought up out of the blue to be involved in some pretty big contrivances like Shining Knight did.
Yeah that's kind of a good point to be honest. I still need to find out whether Shining being Twilight's brother was planned back when this storyline was first drafted (around season 1), or that was another thing Hasbro changed on their own.

Quote Originally Posted by Hypoallergenic Cactuar View Post
Also Lyra had a speaking line.
She sure did! And Minute, and some other pony did too, let's just hope they're not given over 9000 different voices like Bon-Bon has, huh?

To Værn: Thanks for linking the trope, and explaining it. I had a feeling there was one.