@Trickquestion  
Well personally I think Twilight’s ability to do this didn’t just come out of nowhere, at least.

@Background Pony #A314  
I realize it’s a loaded term in this fandom, but this just felt so contrived. They just wanted to throw Breezie!Six at us.

@requiem-dirge  
You got a point, but in PYHD, Fluttershy was more of a push-over, in IAEBB, she was more of a too nice pony. I suppose there’s a difference between being a push-over and being too nice, but I don’t know how to say it.

@Trickquestion  
Pandering  

@Techy Pony  
Gender is still an if.

When I saw this, I was so lost.

The magic of pandering!

So they can officially change species, gender and age…is there anything they can’t do with magic?

@Potatoguy  
Well, what I mean is Twilight pretty much activated a transformation of one party based on the characteristics of a second party when she hit both parties with a spell. In this episode the transformation was the end goal & was near complete, but in “Bats!” the transformation was an unintended side effect so it didn’t affect the party transforming as much as a spell with that intent would.

This episode…is what Putting Your Hoof Down should have been.

@OneOverTwo  
…huh.

@OneOverTwo  
I guess in Bats, it was a more inefficient way that didn’t work “properly”.

I half-expected the end gag to be “so how do we change back?”. The Rainbow Dash thing was close enough, though.

I think I understand how the spell works. The caster need a sample of the specific race, like a body shape, to affect the transformation. Or maybe I overthink too much.
 
@OneOverTwo  
I think it was an another spell, I dunno.

The leg did not grow out of her neck, it was her leg shrinking

@OneOverTwo  
Kind of.

Thinking about it, didn’t Twilight basically do an incomplete version of this spell by accident in “Bats!”?