kinda pointless if they weren't going to die anyway

[[WMG: It's About Time was made for another reason.]]

Even though the moral was not to stress about the future, keep in mind that the episode was released in 2012, and it could be a TakeThat to the 2012 apocalypse. In short, the episode was secretly saying not to believe in the apocalypse.

[[WMG: The Li'l Miss Rarity Tumblrpasta blog's main arc--that is, before the revelation--takes place in an alternate Bad End to "Whom the Sweetie Belle Tolls".]]

If Luna didn't manage to reform Sweetie Belle and Rarity ended up disgraced before Sapphire Shores and became the recluse we saw in Sweetie Belle's nightmare, the pressure from her friends and the community to start making dresses again would force her to at leasttry to make one more dress. It is at this point when she is scratched by Opal and discovers her sadomasochistic side, and sometime after she makes Opal's skin into her Pinkamina doll she decides to start making dresses again. But, being that she threw out most of her material before and had only bought enough for the one that was ruined when Opal scratched her, she needed to get more... By this point, Sweetie Belle had felt sorry for what she had put her sister through and confessed to Sapphire Shores that she was the reason the headdress fell apart. When Sapphire finally found the time to pay Rarity a visit and apologize to offer her another opportunity, she had no idea that she would be helping