that would be a lapse in judgment on the part of the show's
writers with some rather unfortunate implications
The show is full of unfortunate implications. We were talking about the racially biased caste system and child slavery a few pages back. There are lots of things going on that I don't think the script writers really understood the implications. People often write in accordance with standard conventions, without stopping to examine what those conventions mean.
Just ask the common sense question: A girl is given two tickets to a formal ballroom dance. Who is the other ticket for? "A date" is the obvious answer.
In any case, I think the implications of Celestia anticipating that Twilight might want to take a date (or perhaps,
encourage her to) are hardly unfortunate. Taking a date to a dance isn't exactly creepy or sinister. Especially compared to stuff in any standard Disney princess story: Snow White was cursed by her (aunt?) to sleep forever until some guy comes along and kisses her in her sleep, she wakes up, he kills the aunt then marries her. What's the lesson here? Your family is out to get you, and marry the first guy who takes advantage of you while you're helpless and murders one of your relatives.
Not exactly a family friendly message there.
That's actually quite a clever interpretation. I like that.
Thank you.
Hm, becoming a stage magician in a world in which real
magic actually exists seems like a rather poor career choice, IMO.
Possibly. But Ponyville is supposed to be a notoriously low-magic village, populated predominantly by earth ponies, and so backwater that they still have traditions like ending winter purely by manual labor. It was an obvious place for a unicorn with much greater flaire for the dramatic than actual magical ability to go to try to wow the crowd with some casual tricks for tips.
I'm guessing she simply didn't realize that a Canterlot unicorn from Celestia's school of magic was in residence. And had she realized, she had no reason to expect them to take what was obviously a
stageshow so seriously. And once she realized that they were taking it too seriously, well...the show must go on.
The mane six basically played hecklers trying to interfere with a stage performer because they were too stupid to realize that it was a show, despite Trixie obviously being a traveling performer standing on a stage and wearing a costume.