History Recap / MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E12AmendingFences

* ShadowArchetype: Moondancer, who starts the episode as who Twilight would have become if she had shut everybody out, doing pretty much nothing but studying.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: After Twilight tries to make up for snubbing Moondancer at her party by throwing another one, Moondancer really lets Twilight have it for crushing her self esteem with that one, thoughtless act:

-->'''Moondancer:''' Hello Twilight Twinkle.
-->'''Twilight::''' Sparkle.

** [[RecurringExtra Minuette, Twinkleshine, and Lemon Hearts]] are all together for the first time since [[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E1MareInTheMoon the very first episode]], and this time Twilight makes good on their original offer of friendship. It also shows the consequence of Twilight not going to Moondancer's party, as well.
** We finally learn what Spike was planning to give Moon Dancer for her party.

* EasilyForgiven: Even though it takes the whole episode, based on what happened to her Moondancer still seems to seems to forgive Twilight a little too quickly.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: A single comment by Spike makes Twilight realize how much of a jerk Twilight was to her old friends. Pinky Pie isn't much better when she shows that she and Minuette hang out whenever Minuette's in Ponyville.
-->'''Pinky:''' And you call yourself the Princess of Friendship.
* LonersAreFreaks: Moondancer is portayed this way.

* MyGreatestFailure: Played with. Twilight originally thought she had to make amends with Minuette, Twinkleshine and Lemon Hearts for being such a bad friend, but she was easily forgiven. Played straight with Moondancer, who became a reclusive shut-in after Twilight failed to come to her party.
** MyGreatestSecondChance: Twilight makes a second party with Pinkie Pie in order to make up to Moondancer.

* OneDegreeOfSeparation: Most of Twilight's Canterlot friends keep in touch with each other and often visit Ponyville since Lyra Heartstrings moved there. Minuette and Pinkie Pie also know each other since Minuette was a bridesmaid at Cadence's wedding.
* PoorCommunicationKills: A bit of a meta example; due to a series of miscommunications, the air date for this episode was originally posted online as being the afternoon of Monday, July 6 instead of the morning of Saturday, July 4.

* TheEyesHaveIt: Twilight tries to get Moondancer's attention by appearing as an illustration in one of Moondancer's books.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: A single comment by Spike makes Twilight realize how much of a jerk Twilight was to her old friends.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Twilight brushing off her friends and not going to Moondancer's party in the pilot was seen as funny as it established her character as an introverted bookworm. This episode shows the consequence of that.

* TheCameo: [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E1TheCutieMapPart1 Starlight]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E2TheCutieMapPart2 Glimmer]] is seen during the restaurant dinner scene, nearly hidden behind a menu. Lyra Heartstrings also cameos in flashbacks[[spoiler: and Spike's gift to Moondancer.]]

* TrailOfBreadCrumbs: Moondancer follows a trail of ''books'' that leads her to the party Twilight and Pnkie set up.

* TheCameo: [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E1TheCutieMapPart1 Starlight]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E2TheCutieMapPart2 Glimmer]] is seen during the restaurant dinner scene, nearly hidden behind a menu.

* CallBack: [[RecurringExtra Minuette, Twinkleshine, and Lemon Hearts]] are all together for the first time since [[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E1MareInTheMoon the very first episode]], and this time Twilight makes good on their original offer of friendship. It also shows the consequence of Twilight not going to Moondancer's party, as well.

* TheProducerThinksOfEverything: The reason Minuette, Twinkleshine and Lemon Hearts are seen in the background in previous episodes? They go to Ponyville to visit Lyra, who lives there.

Synopsis: ''Twilight realizes she was a less than stellar friend to her former buddies in Canterlot, so she returns with Spike to make amends.''

This episode is set to air on July 4, 2015 at 11:30 AM EST.

* TheCameo: [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E1TheCutieMapPart1 Starlight]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E2TheCutieMapPart2 Glimmer]] is seen during the restaurant dinner scene, nearly hidden behind a menu though her distinctive hair coloring and style is visible.
* CerebusRetcon: This episode shows that Moondancer became even more anti-social than ''Twilight'' was after the now Princess blew her party off.

* MyGreatestFailure: Played with. Twilight originally thought she had to make amends with Minuette, Twinkleshine and Lemon Hearts for being such a bad friend, but she was easily forgiven. Played straight with Moondancer, who became a reclusive shut-in after Twilight failed to come to her party, so...

* NerdGlasses: Moondancer wears a pair of glasses with tape

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: The reason Minuette, Twinkleshine and Lemon Hearts are seen in the background in previous episodes? They go to Ponyville to visit Lyra, who lives there.

* ShadowArchtype: Moondancer, who starts the episode as who Twilight would have become if she had shut everybody out, doing pretty much nothing but studying.

While Twilight Sparkle relaxes in her castle with a book, Spike offhandedly mentions that her being the Princess of Friendship is a bit ironic since she used to have a reputation in Canterlot for being such a bad friend. Twilight suddenly realizes that Spike is right; ever since she moved to Ponyville, she hasn't been back to see any of her old friends, even having forgotten their names. Twilight immediately decides to rectify this by going to Canterlot to see them.

After arriving in Canterlot, Twilight and Spike find their old home exactly as they left it, complete with Spike's gifts for Moondancer and all of Twilight's old books right where she left them. That morning, Twilight manages to find Minuette, who is ecstatic to see Twilight again. She invites Twilight to donuts with Twinkleshine and Lemon Hearts, and the four of them chat. During the conversation, Twilight sincerely apologizes for hurting their feelings by leaving without a word, but the three unicorns laugh it off, saying they didn't take it personally. The four visit their old science lab, where Twilight recalls Moondancer, who was an avid bookworm like Twilight. She suggests visiting Moondancer, but the friends find Moondancer to be an antisocial shut-in who cares only about studying.

At the library, Twilight attempts to win Moondancer's affections, but Moondancer is still uninterested, and brushes off all of Twilight's attempts until Twilight invites Moondancer to her old library. She even offers Moondancer a key to the library that she can use to visit it whenever she wants, on the condition that Moondancer attend dinner with her old friends. Moondancer eventually relents, but the dinner is filled with awkward pauses and weary conversation, since Moondancer is wholly uninterested. Moondancer finally leaves in a huff, saying that she tried friendship, and it just wasn't for her. This causes Twilight to remember that she turned down an invitation to Moondancer's party while Twilight was worried about how to stop Nightmare Moon. At the party proper, Moondancer was willing to open up when Minuette, Twinkleshine, and Lemon Hearts arrived, but when she learned Twilight wasn't coming, Moondancer simply slunk away, dejected.

Twilight enlists Pinkie Pie's help to throw Moondancer another party with her old friends, which Moondancer agrees to with a chilly reception. Twilight tries to apologize again, but Moondancer angrily brushes her off. Moondancer begins yelling at Twilight that the party she threw was the first time she tried to open up, and Twilight not showing up broke her heart. Moondancer even begins to cry, to which Twilight agrees that Moondancer has every right to be angry, but she shouldn't let it affect her friendships with everypony else. In addition to her three old friends, some of Moondancer's new friends arrive at her party, causing Moondancer to finally accept Twilight's apology.

The party ends, with Moondancer agreeing to start seeing her friends, old and new, more often. Spike even finally delivers the present he'd wanted to give Moondancer: a picture of the group of friends together.

* CallBack: [[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E1MareInTheMoon The first episode]] is referenced numerous times. [[RecurringExtra Minuette, Twinkleshine, and Lemon Hearts]] are all together for the first time since the very first episode, and this time Twilight makes good on their original offer of friendship. It also features Spike's original gift that he intended to give Moondancer finally opened.
* TheCameo: Starlight Glimmer can be seen behind a menu during the restaurant dinner scene.
* ChekhovsGun: Spike's present, from the first episode. It turns out to be a picture of the group of Canterlot friends together.
* ContinuityPorn: This episodes ties up a lot of open-ended questions from Season 1 about Twilight's life before she moved to Ponyville, why characters like Lyra and Minuette show up in Canterlot and Ponyville often, and directly connects to the first few minutes of the first episode regarding Moondancer's party.

* RealityEnsues: Twilight not showing up to Moondancer's party did not go unnoticed, especially by Moondancer. In fact, she's still bitter about it years later.

Synopsis: ''Twilight realizes she was a less than stellar friend to her former buddies in Canterlot, so she returns with Spike to make amends.''

This episode is set to air on July 4, 2015 at 11:30 AM EST.

* CallBack: [[RecurringExtra Minuette, Twinkleshine, and Lemon Hearts]] are all together for the first time since [[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E1MareInTheMoon the very first episode]], and this time Twilight makes good on their original offer of friendship. It also shows the consequence of Twilight not going to Moondancer's party, as well.
* TheCameo: Starlight Glimmer is seen during the restaurant dinner scene, nearly hidden behind a menu though her distinctive hair coloring and style is visible.
* CerberusRetcon: This episode shows that Moondancer became even more anti-social than ''Twilight'' was after the now Princess blew her party off.
* ContinuityNod:
** Twilight's old room still has [[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E1MareInTheMoon the book on the Elements of Harmony stll out as well as the ruined teddy bear present that was supposedly for Moondancer]].
** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E26TheBestNightEver Joe's donut shop]] is visited again.
** Aside from being seen around Ponyville as a background pony, Pinkie Pie remembers Minuette as [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E25ACanterlotWeddingPart1 one of a Cadance's bridesmaids at the wedding]].
* ContinuityPorn: The plot connects a lot of the first season open-ended questions and ties in other details (such as Minuette and Lyra being shown around both Canterlot and Ponyville often, or them as Cadance's bridesmares).
* InnocentlyInsensitive: A single comment by Spike makes Twilight realize how much of a jerk Twilight was to her old friends.
* LonersAreFreaks: Moondancer is portayed this way.

* MyGreatestFailure: Played with. Twilight originally thought she had to make amends with Minuette, Twinkleshine and Lemon Hearts for being such a bad friend, but she was easily forgiven. Played straight with Moondancer, who became a reclusive shut-in after Twilight failed to come to her party, so...
** MyGreatestSecondChance: Twilight makes a second party with Pinkie Pie in order to make up to Moondancer.
* NerdGlasses: Moondancer wears a pair of glasses with tape

* ShadowArchtype: Moondancer, who starts the episode as who Twilight would have become if she had shut everybody out, doing pretty much nothing but studying.
* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: The reason Minuette, Twinkleshine and Lemon Hearts are seen in the background in previous episodes? They go to Ponyville to visit Lyra, who lives there.

* CallBack: [[RecurringExtra Minuette, Twinkleshine, and Lemon Hearts]] are all together for the first time since [[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E1MareInTheMoon the very first episode]], and this time Twilight makes good on their original offer of friendship.

This episode is set to air on July 4, 2015 at 11;30 AM EST.

This episode is set to air on July 6, 2015 at 4:30 PM EST.

* MustMakeAmends: Here Twilight remembers how insensitive she was [[CharacterDevelopment before she moved to Ponyville]], and now she sees an opportunity to make up for it.

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