Oh my goodness rabia stap flirting ugggggh he is married to cadence how dare you 😠😡🤬💯🔥

Everyone else is losing their minds over the Star Wars reference while I’m more concerned about an Umbrum calling Shining Armor cute. (Srsly he’s one cute pony!)

@panzerkampfpony  
She’s female, so maybe she sounds more like Ingrid Pitt?

@panzerkampfpony
 
Why do I get the feeling you’ll be the death of this conversation?  
B)

@Commander117
 
Still that’s not a reference that is very recognisable, I think it says a lot that there’s so few parts of the prequels that has been embedded in peoples minds, besides the bits people take the piss out of. (I hate sand, the rascist CG rasta frog, noooooooooooo ect). That’s how you can tell that they don’t have the magic the originals did. season 2 ended with a parody of the ending of a new hope, season 6 won’t end with a parody of the fucking trade route taxation disputes from phantom menace.

So does the horrific ghost horse monster sound like Peter cushing.

@panzerkampfpony  
Perhaps they’re trying to bring balance to the references, not destroy them?

@sumbozo
 
Do the prequels ever get referenced in pop culture unless they’re mocking it or parodying Darth Mauls duel lightsaber?

You know I’m not sure why everyone is so hung up on this star wars reference there’s plenty of other horrible things to see in this comic this one doesn’t even register compared to everything else.

@Background Pony #DC5D  
^THIS  
I don’t really care about space samurais Star Wars so it was just a normal dialogue to me.

oh look star wars reference oh

@Ardashir  
indifference
 

@Ardashir  
Neutral  

@OptimusPrimevil  
What if you neither hate it nor like it?

@Ardashir  
if you hate it, it’s plagiarism  
if you like it, it’s a homage

@Evowizard25
 
I didn’t even notice the reference at first, because I never saw the original Star Wars trilogy.
 
If someone who doesn’t know the reference can read it and it still makes sense and feels natural, that’s how you know it isn’t forced.

Honestly, while it is a noticeable reference, I don’t mind it. In fact, I think it’s funny since it does fit the situation instead of the situation being forced for this one joke. It just matters if you like reference humor in general.

@Masem  
Or they could have not had thsi contrivance happen and instead be trying to use cadance and twilight as a threat against Celestia and Luna, the two beings who are most likely to destroy them now. Petrify them and threaten to scatter them across equestria and such.
 
Then again these guys care so little about adventure arcs it never occurred to them that sombra could not just petrify two beings who are MIORE POWERFUL THAN HE IS. They are tooooooo lazy to think of anything else.  
Yes i hate this arc with a fiery passion. Mainly cause they are royally fucking up the payoff of sombra’s backstory with it >_<
 
Seriously there are dozenso f more intersting ways this could ahve gone. The umbrum could ahve fended off celestia and luna, showing the regal sisters are powerful. but the umbrum have the advantage there. ANYTHING at all.
 
What is msot idsappointing is that the writer of this one is someone who does adventure stories for idw, some kind of turn it on its head princess story…… Yet they go for such a contrived plot. Fuck whoever wrote this >_<

@Background Pony #DC5D  
Better than if we get a Near Villain Victory if Sombra does petrify Cadence and Twilight in front of the Crystal Ponies to show he’s removed the one thorn in his and the Umbrum’s plans for Equestria, the Royal Family, from stopping them.
 
Besides, the main reason for my fear, is not just Twilight suffering being turned to stone again like with what happened with the cockatrice when she was a unicorn, but as for Cadence, it has to do with this artist’s work:
 
https://www.derpibooru.org/1005400?scope=scpe2dd969edc84ea97a54c828e838f17250f73fc8ca  
https://www.derpibooru.org/1035047?scope=scpe2dd969edc84ea97a54c828e838f17250f73fc8ca

@SuperSonic15
 
So their supposed “escape”, the railroad sabotage, and Cadance’s “confession” are all a trick to make the Umbrum think the rest of the mane 6 are very far away?
 
If that’s true, that’s a pretty clever plan on their part.

@Masem  
But before Twilight, Cadence, and Shining Armor were captured, Twilight could have formulated a plan with the rest of the Mane Six, then allowed herself to be caught so she could put her part of the plan with luring the Umbrum out to the Crystal Heart dais into action.
 
The rest of the Mane Six are just waiting to do like before and use their bonds of friendship with Twilight to rescue her and Cadence, then turn the tables on the Umbrum while they’re still recoiling from being duped.

I could see the umbrum falling for this apparent ploy Twi’s offering if they had been in rule for months, etc. and were feeling comfortable in their control of the situation, so that Twilight could trick them easier (eg the same approach QC did in how she got Twilight to release her in the Fiendship story).
 
But this appears to be within days, as stoning-up the princesses only makes sense a few days after their takeover, not months out.

@redweasel
 
Nah to the Umbrums credit they don’t feel like excuses light the moon creatures. People actually still acknowledge Sombra as a monster regardless unlike what they did with Luna.

so, are the writers actually trying to make these things exactly the same as the moon creatures, or is andy just stuck on that concept?

@Background Human  
Never tell me the odds!