Mare's Tale", it is the entire show! In the final scene of the show, we will see the same book closing.* To expand on this, after the credits, it will show Spike with the book, who has finished reading it to a group of young ponies, and they will perform a round of applause, and then the camera shifts out to show the Mane 6 also applauding.** Perhaps the final episode will be narrated by Spike, setting this up. His introduction will begin, as the camera descends onto Ponyville.** Alternatively, its narrated by Spike as an adult and its many years after the series ended. It will end on a bittersweet tone as everyone but Twilight Sparkle has long since died and Spike is telling it to ait), rather than who they want to be in the short term (as a mostly-younger cast would tend towards). So how is this not screwed up at a fairly basic level, thus invalidating any lessons that might be learned internalizing the lessons of the show TOO well? Because the character who uses the phrase the most, despite her relative lack of screen time is Celestia... that's right, the benevolence, and delicate batman gambits of "her momjesty" is what the creators twisted the meaning of the inherited title around to mean. They are LITERALLY making into the highest "who I want to be when I go up" rolemodel, the character who FIGURATIVELY an adult Winston Churchhill would have "wanted to be when he grew up". This could even apply