Some scene ideas I sketched a while back while working on the wedding arc character designs.
The story's a tribue to Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella and would focus on Celestia and Cadance's mother/adopted-daughter relationship. I imagined the ending to be an homage to Cinderella's finale, with Shining Armor and Cadance running down the steps to their wedding carriage. The bottom thumbs were an idea I had where Cadance gives one last look back at Celestia at the top of the steps, who's crying happy tears, watching her newlywed daughter leave to take her next step in adulthood. I had it in my head that the moment would sync up to the lyrics, "No matter how your heart is grieving; if you keep on believing..."
The fact that Tessa was not fully human, but a corpse possessed by Cyn was actually foreshadowed in the previous episodes before "Mass Destruction".
"Heartbeat" has the Absolute Solver call the drones their "cute little puppets". Tessa referred to the drones as such a few times.
"Home" has J close and block the ballroom door, meaning that Tessa couldn't have gotten out. In the end, Tessa constantly messes with Doll, who can supposedly crush her like a tin can. That's because she knows she is immune to the Absolute Solver.
"Dead End" shows that the Sentinels can be controlled by humans. Her access was denied because she isn't a real human. The Sentinels are also confused by her disguise, not knowing if she is a human or a robot. When she is bitten, she shrugs off the pain rather quickly and isn't worried about the damage to the suit that is supposed to protect her from the environment. Her photo is also censored due to digital manipulation. She even bleeds a lot more than a human should be able to handle. She also positions her arms like Cyn multiple times.
“Two Lovers, one a knight with a resolute soul but troubled mind and one a champion with a grand fate but deep loneliness in thy soul, Forever In heart but distance from each other in fate and tragedy”
As funny as the roleplay scene between Angel and Sir Pentious is that with their bad acting from both of them and Charlie's script, the underlying subtext of the scene is quite painful for Angel. As a drug user himself, he is made to play the role of a heartless drug dealer preying on a child, making him feel insulted by the script's insinuation that drug users and dealers are always evil. As someone who is also dealing with loneliness, being owned by an overlord who sexually abuses him, and being separated from his sister in heaven, Angel is visibly jealous and hurt about seeing Pentious being so quickly accepted into the hotel.
The other characters may not sense it, but consider how Angel must feel about being reduced to a collection of stereotypes and having certain aspects of his lifestyle be ridiculed and shamed.
Adding to this, the last line of the roleplay scene has the little kid Sir Pentious plays drop a line about "not having sexual intercourse before marriage." Again, a seemingly comedic line that shames Angel's life as an adult film star. It becomes extra impactful a few episodes later, when the relationship between him and his boss is revealed... 😥
he is fucking broken… this is not “Mr. Hands, First Mate Hands, or God, as far as you’re concerned.” this is just izzy. sad and scared and lost and broken and feeling it all come crashing down at him at once by forced comfort. fuck