The Round Stable

It's About Time
Airdate: March 10, 2012
Writer: M.A. Larson

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Really good. It seems like there was so much going on in this episode, it's a wonder they were able to fit it into 22 minutes.

This was the most ethically troubling episode because it implies a rigid linear structure to time that makes even attempts to go back in time merely another link in the chain; everything is fixed, causality is merely rhetorical, and free will is an illusion. Twilight Sparkle will have always gone back in time. To ask why is pointless; she will have gone back to inspire herself to go back.

S5E26 kind of dunked on that, by not only directly showing the characters messing up a specific event but doing so in numerous ways with numerous outcomes, and I hate it, because it's not as existential.

And so Cerberus came back in the season finale.