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>Yeah, it´s ironic. The map and the places get expanded, they feel like closer to home over time yet, the original place where Dolores and Sunburst came from felt slightly off than Dolores´s village after The Cutie Map with less expensive buildings. Modern or good looking places don´t always fill that sense of being at home.

I suppose the modernness plays a part. As opposed to a fantasy with some modern tech and analogs thrown in, such an enchanted magic powered engine. As the seasons past they where more willing to thrown in modern stuff without an steampunk or magicpunk theme. Though I don't hold this as a full reason or too much of a complaint as long they don't copy paste earth American culture cut and dry with no horse themed attributes to the motifs and tech they decide to use. As I've pointed out before, we've seen things like modern paper, hoofheald video games, a hydrodams in the first two seasons. Though I do agree that sometimes it has been a bit much in the more recent seasons. I think it is more with the sense of distance, which I would partly attribute to modernness, but also out of a desire to make new and interesting things more accessible for plot's sake. I can understand that they never really established set distances so why could't they do it? Though I remember thinking during season 4 that since the series was starting to really develop a set lore and at the time more fantasy/steampunk stuff as fanservice we'd be going the other way.

>Or getting into the Dragonlands would take Spike entire days and in the Guanlet of Fire,he got there without getting tired.

That's a real good one. Though I don't hold it against the slow too strongly I will say that they have made too many places familiar and uninteresting as a plot convenience. But that's what happened with the Everfree early on. Still it lowers the fun you could have with lower/mid tier hostile forces like they used to have even in some of the slice of life ponyville eps.

>especially Sunburst. But oh well, it´s a complaint that will be pointed out as well for other episodes. We have talked about it earlier and we, for sure, complain about that when the map calls....I don´t know, one of the students.

It probably is a bit early to judge but it seems like the tree is going to become the plot device in charge of secondary characters. Oh well, if we get more episodes like this I can't really complain but it just feels a little forced and unorganic.


>But then, the map is God. I wonder if the series finale shows that using the map too much becomes in negative energy in pony mode. Full of anti friendship just like happened in Dragon Ball GT with Shenron using the Dragon Balls constantly. If the map is doing that as a living being and not just magic, the possibility of creating its other side could potentially happen.

Show has already gone DBZ once, so why not?