As Douglas Adams once pointed out, beings that are inherently immortal are also born with the mental abilities to handle and cope with such a thing. So I think she's fine in that regard. As for her plans, given the amount of time she's really had to fine tune and correct them (especially over generations and generations of students), I think she's got those worked out well enough.

It'll be neat to see if Celestia's character changes or fleshes out more in season 2, with the season having been put together AFTER the show's folks have recognized some of the fanbase's reactions. Season 1 had Derpy added to a number of scenes in post-editing, and I can only imagine what crazy stuff those folks may have adapted having the flexibility of time, and planning things like that BEFORE and during production. I'M NOT FUNCTIONING, please consider all this as gibberish, heh.

I dunno if I'll be in roocam tonight, probably not. My plans/activities have been up in the air these last weeks, didn't even get to Bab's thing yesterday v_v... EITHER WAY, I wish y'all the best of luck!

If I met Celestia on the road? I'd wonder how I got into cartoon land, and if someone has slipped me a powerful hallucinogenic, and would I see anything else that had been animated over the years, and could any of them hurt me.

I would have to agree with you about 99%. :-D I would only say Celestia isn't a prankster to any extent. The Tea Spill joke was probably the only little gag she's ever pulled in the show, and even like you have said, it was something that taught a lesson. If we break down everything that she has done in the show, we can see that Princess Celestia isn't at fault for any mishaps or tricks presented in the show. The Gala fiasco, the handing out of the Tickets to the Gala, etc. Those are all things that in reality, Twilight and her friends caused to be more wild then they should have been.

If I met Celestia on the road, I'd honestly give her a big hug. I love her character so much.

And from all I've seen, she'd probably appreciate it! The fall-to-the-knees-and-worship routine gets boring and lonely after a while.

I would definitely be very respectful, but I feel sheer joy from seeing my most favorite MLP:FiM character would drive me to embrace her. She's such a wonderful character.

I always thought of her little 'Trollestia' amusements as serving two purposes. One, to break the deadly dull routine of being ruler - she's a pretty kind, enlightened being, as has been said, and the isolation such a position demands would be inherently stressful. A harmless jape now and then keeps things interesting. The other, as has been said, is to drop some much needed Aesop Anvils on her subjects from time to time.

And sometimes her subjects manage to surprise HER. The utterly nonplussed 'WTF?' look on her face, as the Pinkie Pied Piper Parasprite Parade marched by, was completely priceless.

Celestia's actions have been manipulative from the start. She sends other ponies like Twilight to do what she cannot accomplish alone, but does not reveal her true intentions to them. She's also not above pulling pranks like tricking her hostess into overfilling her teacup or inviting guests to unknowingly disrupt the Grand Galloping Gala. She's a player of pawns towards often unspecified goals, which makes her more interesting as a character. She's very sly when she arrives in Ponyville, pretending she doesn't know of any parasprite trouble in town, but says it's in Fillydelphia - an excuse for her to leave right away and spare Twilight from humiliation.

Manipulative? I have to highly disagree. When you are teaching someone anything, you don't flat out give them the answers to a problem nor do it for them. There is no learning that way. Celestia knows what is within the power of Twilight and her friends, so giving base instructions so that Twilight can find the answer for herself is how a true leader and teacher guides her students and pupils. She's a Princess and clearly cannot attend to EVERYTHING that goes on in Equestria, so putting trust and faith in Twilight to assist her is only natural.

The Tea Spill is Mr. and Mrs. Cake's fault. Have you ever been to a restaurant where they watched you drink a beverage and then immediately fill it up afterwards? Especially 2, 3 and 4 times? Celestia didn't want to be rude by not drinking the tea served to her, but even she realized Mr and Mrs. Cake were going a little overboard about Celestia's presence. She pretended to take a drink, and despite the Cake couple watching her like a hawk, they jumped the gun and attempted to fill a full cup.

As for the Gala, you can't honestly believe that Celestia invited Twilight's friends to DESTROY the party, can you? She knew they would liven up the Gala, since Twilight's friends aren't uppity, high class snobs, but the destruction and fiasco was simply a unique surprise. You have to admit, it would be more comfortable for yourself if you went to a gathering with some friends that helped liven up a dull situation. It's a cartoon, so a little destruction is practically immanent.

And there's no way you can gather from the ending to the Parasprite episode that Celestia knew what the Parasprites were. She never said she knew what was going on in Fillydelphia, only that an infestation had broken out and that she had to tend to it. It's only ironic that the same thing had happened in Ponyville and Celestia was unaware of it due to that emergency elsewhere.

That's possible, but she's no troll. Trolls think they're pranksters, but all they do is piss people off.

My thoughts exactly.. :)

Trollestia or Molestia is just fans having fun with the character. Most of them don't take it seriously, I'm sure. Fanon is different from canon, end of story :P

Yes, but... *yeeesh* it gets creepy sometimes.

I mean, "Molestia" is basically a rape joke.

I stay away from the harsher stuff. But I certainly don't mind it if they stick with the "tea cup joke" level of pranking.

I certainly get what you mean though. Scootabuse gives me the heebie jeebies. (Dis I spell that right?)

Someone call?

I still say a lot of the crazy missions she sends Twilight on, while ommiting certain details, is grooming the most powerful unicorrn she's seen in centuries for something special. perhaps evolving her to alicorn status someday to take Luna's role, while Luna takes her spot and she retires for a long needed rest.
After all, Luna is now a thousand years younger and Celestia's had to do it all for all that time....

"Alicorn" isn't an official name for Pegasus Unicorns. An "alicorn" is the horn of a unicorn.

Eh, I prefer Unipeg, but I'm using the fanon name for what the Princesses are. I'm sure if I used Unipeg, I would have had someone scream ALICORN in allcaps.

Try not to follow the "fanon" closely, it consists of a lot of erroneous and simple errors that go off on HUGE tangents sometimes that have nothing to do with the show. This little blog on the MLP:FiM Wiki page explains "Alicorn" quite well and you'll understand what I mean.

http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog.....inged_unicorns

Only sometimes? Things have improved since last I looked.