WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.260 (Silly Filly Studios Theme Plays) 00:00:10.740 --> 00:00:12.580 (Gentle Piano Melody) 00:00:12.700 --> 00:00:16.600 (Celestia) (Voice-Over) THERE IS NOTHING IN THIS WORLD QUITE SO AMAZING AS THE FIRST WINTER'S SNOW. 00:00:21.720 --> 00:00:26.280 The first few flakes falling from the sky, signifying great change. 00:00:31.640 --> 00:00:33.520 The time for the land to rest, 00:00:34.900 --> 00:00:36.440 the animals to dream, 00:00:43.340 --> 00:00:50.620 and the ponies of Equestria to relax and play, knowing another year has successfully aged to its eve. 00:00:53.280 --> 00:01:02.180 Holiday celebrations, peaceful nights of rest, brisk laughter in the day, 00:01:03.360 --> 00:01:06.400 all brought forth by a single powdery fragment. 00:01:08.580 --> 00:01:13.820 Some might scoff at the idea that something so small could hold such power, 00:01:16.940 --> 00:01:20.740 but they are the ones who have forgotten how the snowflake came to be. 00:01:30.380 --> 00:01:35.540 [MRS. WINDITH] ...following the Spring Sunrise, the rain pegasi will bring forth the snow-melting showers from the South. 00:01:36.320 --> 00:01:41.740 Can anypony tell me the southern nation that allows Equestria to collect their warm-front cloud system? 00:01:42.920 --> 00:01:43.760 Cirrus? 00:01:44.560 --> 00:01:51.140 [CIRRUS] (Hesitant) Uh... Ande... uhhhhh.... Zebr...! 00:01:52.440 --> 00:01:53.900 [MRS. WINDITH] (Dully) Camelu. 00:01:54.280 --> 00:01:55.520 [CIRRUS] Oh. Yeah. 00:01:56.440 --> 00:02:00.820 [CUMULONIMBUS] (Tersely) Whoever it is, they need to hurry up and go get the front. It's. Freezing. 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:05.300 [MRS. WINDITH] They couldn't produce the rain yet, even if they were back with the weather system. 00:02:05.740 --> 00:02:07.840 The land still needs time to rest. 00:02:07.840 --> 00:02:13.460 That's the only reason we create winter: to help rejuvenate the soil for the Earth Ponies below. 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:15.540 [CUMULONIMBUS] Well, I'm sick of waiting. 00:02:16.240 --> 00:02:20.560 [MRS. WINDITH] You won't have to wait much longer. The Spring Sunrise is only two days away. 00:02:21.020 --> 00:02:23.980 Then you won't have to see a speck of snow for a whole year! 00:02:24.840 --> 00:02:28.760 On that note, how is everyone coming along with their Spring Sunrise presentations? 00:02:29.080 --> 00:02:33.060 Is everypony and their partner ready to present their seasonal gifts to the princesses? 00:02:35.320 --> 00:02:36.120 Snowdrop? 00:02:36.120 --> 00:02:37.060 *Snowdrop gasps lightly* 00:02:37.060 --> 00:02:38.560 [MRS. WINDITH] How is your project coming? 00:02:39.260 --> 00:02:43.460 [SNOWDROP] (Hesitant) My... uh... my project? 00:02:44.160 --> 00:02:46.820 [MRS. WINDITH] Yes... are you and your partner ready to present? 00:02:47.740 --> 00:02:50.360 [SNOWDROP] (Anxious) My partner? Um... 00:02:51.180 --> 00:02:52.900 [MRS. WINDITH] Do you not have a partner still? 00:02:54.100 --> 00:02:57.020 Snowdrop, this isn't just a small school project! 00:02:57.440 --> 00:03:01.240 This is the 100th Spring Sunrise under the princesses' rule. 00:03:01.860 --> 00:03:07.520 They've honored us with the opportunity to show what Cloudsdale's future can create to invigorate the seasons. 00:03:08.080 --> 00:03:09.940 Have you even begun your work? 00:03:10.460 --> 00:03:11.640 [SNOWDROP] Um... Well... I... 00:03:11.640 --> 00:03:14.160 [CLASSMATE 1] Mrs. Windith is going to make someone work with her again, isn't she? 00:03:14.700 --> 00:03:18.100 [CLASSMATE 2] It's not like she can make anything when she can't see in front of her own hooves. 00:03:18.100 --> 00:03:21.060 [CLASSMATE 3] We worked with her last time! You do it! 00:03:21.060 --> 00:03:23.820 [SNOWDROP] I-I... Of course I've started! 00:03:24.680 --> 00:03:27.640 I've actually been working on something for a while now. 00:03:28.140 --> 00:03:32.540 By myself! Because it's, uh... a surprise! 00:03:32.540 --> 00:03:34.840 [CUMULONIMBUS] *scoff* A surprise? 00:03:34.840 --> 00:03:38.100 [SNOWDROP] (Anxiously) Um... uh-huh! A surprise! 00:03:38.100 --> 00:03:40.160 That's why I wanted to work alone, I- 00:03:40.240 --> 00:03:42.660 *bell chimes* 00:03:42.660 --> 00:03:45.400 [MRS. WINDITH] Alright, everypony. Be careful going home. 00:03:45.400 --> 00:03:49.668 Remember to bring in your projects tomorrow for a final work day. 00:03:49.668 --> 00:03:51.900 The princesses arrive in TWO DAYS! 00:03:54.740 --> 00:03:58.880 (Concerned) Are you sure you'll be ready? Working by yourself can't be easy. 00:03:58.880 --> 00:04:02.000 I can still place you in another group, you'll get credit. 00:04:02.360 --> 00:04:07.040 [SNOWDROP] Oh, no! I have something really good planned, Mrs. Windith. You'll see! 00:04:07.040 --> 00:04:10.080 But, um, i-it has to be a surprise! 00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:11.260 It has to! 00:04:12.200 --> 00:04:14.560 [MRS. WINDITH] Well... alright, then. 00:04:15.080 --> 00:04:16.540 Be careful going home. 00:04:16.880 --> 00:04:20.860 I know you know your way, but the last blizzard of the year is always the worst. 00:04:21.660 --> 00:04:22.200 [SNOWDROP] I will! 00:04:23.380 --> 00:04:28.440 *sighs to self* Really good surprise... sure. 00:04:28.540 --> 00:04:34.140 *wind howling* 00:04:39.960 --> 00:04:46.140 [SNOWDROP] *sniffles* I can't go to the Spring Sunrise. I just can't. 00:04:47.080 --> 00:04:50.680 A useless foal like me could never make anything for spring. 00:04:51.380 --> 00:04:56.460 (voice breaking) The princesses would just... just laugh at me, and... 00:04:56.920 --> 00:05:01.100 *soft clarinet tune* 00:05:01.400 --> 00:05:02.960 [FILLY SNOWDROP] You can wish on them? 00:05:03.520 --> 00:05:07.960 [PRIMROSE] Yes. Once, there was a time when you couldn't, when stars were rare. 00:05:08.380 --> 00:05:12.400 But when the princesses came, the stars began to come out every night. 00:05:13.420 --> 00:05:15.860 *"twinkling" sounds* I bet if you listened, you could hear them twinkle. 00:05:17.000 --> 00:05:18.540 [FILLY SNOWDROP] No, I couldn't. 00:05:18.940 --> 00:05:21.020 [PRIMROSE] You listen better than any pony I know! 00:05:23.120 --> 00:05:27.180 [FILLY SNOWDROP] All I hear is quiet. I'd rather see them. 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:30.820 Do you think if I wished hard enough, they would let me see them? 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:37.140 [PRIMROSE] It's better to save your wishes, Snowdrop, for something you really need. 00:05:37.580 --> 00:05:39.480 [FILLY SNOWDROP] Don't I really need my eyes? 00:05:39.480 --> 00:05:44.000 [PRIMROSE] *chuckles* No, not you. You're too special for that. 00:05:44.620 --> 00:05:45.300 [FILLY SNOWDROP] I am? 00:05:45.920 --> 00:05:49.900 [PRIMROSE] Who else could discover an entire cloud's shape without denting the surface? 00:05:50.400 --> 00:05:53.820 *Snowdrop giggles* Only one little filly's wings and hooves are careful enough to do that! 00:05:54.860 --> 00:05:59.520 And I bet if you tried again, you WOULD be able to hear the stars twinkling at night. 00:06:00.220 --> 00:06:03.980 You're a special filly, my Snowdrop. Don't worry. 00:06:04.520 --> 00:06:07.220 You won't need your eyes to find your place in the world. 00:06:08.560 --> 00:06:10.820 [FILLY SNOWDROP] I think I hear the twinkles! 00:06:19.340 --> 00:06:25.920 [SNOWDROP] (morosely) Twinkles. What good are twinkles? You can't wish on twinkles. 00:06:28.880 --> 00:06:32.360 I don't know if one of you is out there tonight in all this snow - 00:06:33.560 --> 00:06:35.400 - I don't think you are - 00:06:37.440 --> 00:06:44.880 - But please, if you are, I... I... 00:06:46.060 --> 00:06:57.920 I wish, I hope, I dream, I pray. By the princesses' rule, light my way. 00:06:59.540 --> 00:07:08.880 Please, I... *sniffles, voice breaks* I just want to show I can do something for once. 00:07:10.160 --> 00:07:17.000 Everyone else says I can't do anything, but... but I just... 00:07:21.980 --> 00:07:23.680 *twinkle, Snowdrop gasps* 00:07:25.560 --> 00:07:27.140 That wasn't snow... 00:07:29.320 --> 00:07:34.440 *twinkles repeating* 00:07:34.460 --> 00:07:37.880 *twinkles continue throughout, wind blows* Snow... snow... 00:07:41.220 --> 00:07:43.320 [PRIMROSE] (Voice-Over) You listen better than any pony I know. 00:07:43.320 --> 00:07:44.760 *Snowdrop gasps* 00:07:45.440 --> 00:07:47.300 [FILLY SNOWDROP] (Voice-Over) Tell me more about the stars. 00:07:48.720 --> 00:07:52.880 [PRIMROSE] (Voice-Over) Well, there are all sorts of stars. All different shapes and sizes... 00:07:52.880 --> 00:07:56.600 *Snowdrop grunts* ...but they all have little points at their edges. 00:07:58.040 --> 00:07:59.980 When they sparkle, their shapes shift. 00:07:59.980 --> 00:08:03.360 They leave little glowing spaces, only for a moment. 00:08:04.300 --> 00:08:09.200 *wind blows* And the few that streak across the sky and fall down to the earth, the shooting stars? 00:08:09.740 --> 00:08:13.040 Those are the ones you make your strongest wishes on, 00:08:13.040 --> 00:08:14.560 because they can carry them through. 00:08:17.060 --> 00:08:18.120 *twinkle* 00:08:25.980 --> 00:08:26.740 [PRIMROSE] (calling out anxiously) SNOWDROP! 00:08:27.620 --> 00:08:30.500 What are you doing?! It's freezing! Come inside. 00:08:31.620 --> 00:08:34.160 [SNOWDROP] Mother! Mother, look! 00:08:44.280 --> 00:08:46.360 [CELESTIA] Thank you all very much for your hard work. 00:08:46.980 --> 00:08:51.040 After a long winter, it is wonderful to see so many young fillies and colts 00:08:51.040 --> 00:08:53.740 bringing such beautiful ideas to make the season shine. 00:08:55.080 --> 00:08:58.740 Now, we can only choose one as the Centennial symbol, but - 00:08:58.740 --> 00:09:06.140 [SNOWDROP] Wait! *ponies grumbling and complaining* 00:09:06.140 --> 00:09:06.700 [CLASSMATE 1] She's here?! 00:09:06.700 --> 00:09:09.320 [CLASSMATE 2] She didn't show up to class at all yesterday. 00:09:09.320 --> 00:09:11.520 [CLASSMATE 3] I thought Mrs. Windith excused her. 00:09:11.520 --> 00:09:12.740 [MRS. WINDITH] Snowdrop? 00:09:12.740 --> 00:09:15.720 [PRIMROSE] Forgive us the interruption, Your Highnesses, it's just - 00:09:15.720 --> 00:09:20.740 [SNOWDROP] I've been working so hard, please! I have a gift for the seasons too, and - 00:09:20.740 --> 00:09:22.160 [CUMULONIMBUS] Doubt that. 00:09:22.920 --> 00:09:24.460 [CELESTIA] May we see it? 00:09:24.460 --> 00:09:30.200 *bright, uplifting music* 00:09:30.220 --> 00:09:31.400 [CIRRUS] You brought snow?! 00:09:31.800 --> 00:09:33.940 [CUMULONIMBUS] And just one little dot of it! 00:09:34.320 --> 00:09:36.640 [CLASSMATE 2] Maybe she just grabbed the wrong thing on her way here? 00:09:36.860 --> 00:09:39.460 [CLASSMATE 1] Why would you bring snow to the Spring Sunrise? 00:09:39.460 --> 00:09:42.600 [SNOWDROP] It's not snow! I made a star! 00:09:42.860 --> 00:09:47.260 [CIRRUS] *laughs derisively* A star?! You can't make stars! It doesn't even look like one! 00:09:47.380 --> 00:09:50.060 [SNOWDROP] (Indignant) Maybe it doesn't look like one, but it's still a star! 00:09:50.460 --> 00:09:51.820 It's a star for winter. 00:09:53.120 --> 00:09:55.340 I can't see what the stars look like up there, 00:09:56.380 --> 00:09:58.360 just like I can't see what spring looks like. 00:09:59.200 --> 00:10:04.340 But I can hear it all, and I heard the snow twinkling just like the stars do every night. 00:10:04.920 --> 00:10:08.380 So they should be able to grant wishes too, shouldn't they? 00:10:09.360 --> 00:10:14.600 Winter's been giving us a gift all this time, and-and we've just been ignoring it. 00:10:15.880 --> 00:10:21.340 Celebrating spring is good, but winter can't be all bad if it gives us these. 00:10:21.840 --> 00:10:26.500 It may be cold and dark, but that doesn't mean there isn't any good to it. 00:10:27.320 --> 00:10:32.100 Maybe... maybe winter is sad that everypony doesn't like it. 00:10:33.020 --> 00:10:36.600 So maybe we need to make wishes on the winter snow, 00:10:37.400 --> 00:10:39.500 just like how we wish on the night's stars. 00:10:40.300 --> 00:10:43.080 Maybe then we can have a happy winter instead. 00:10:43.920 --> 00:10:48.460 We already have a happy spring, and summer, and fall, 00:10:49.380 --> 00:10:51.780 can't winter be happy, too? 00:10:52.300 --> 00:10:56.280 Because... winter... it's important. 00:10:57.140 --> 00:11:01.120 Even if it seems useless, it can give us wonderful things. 00:11:01.620 --> 00:11:02.180 So... 00:11:04.380 --> 00:11:06.240 [LUNA] May we see your wishing snow? 00:11:11.400 --> 00:11:12.940 [CELESTIA] Could you make us some more? 00:11:13.680 --> 00:11:15.220 [SNOWDROP] *gasp* Uh-huh! 00:11:16.540 --> 00:11:20.640 *uplifting choir and chimes* 00:11:26.620 --> 00:11:31.200 [CELESTIA] (Voice-Over) The following year's snowfall was one of the most celebrated events in Equestrian history. 00:11:32.480 --> 00:11:34.900 Winter's blessings had at last been discovered. 00:11:37.200 --> 00:11:41.540 From then on, snows were gentle, behaving the weather team's wishes. 00:11:42.500 --> 00:11:46.640 Foals could play, ponies could see beyond the icy chill. 00:11:47.880 --> 00:11:51.820 And a new sort of starfall could bring everypony sweet dreams. 00:11:58.040 --> 00:12:00.040 [LUNA] Is it really the last one we have? 00:12:01.080 --> 00:12:03.160 [CELESTIA] It has been over a thousand years, sister, 00:12:04.200 --> 00:12:05.820 and she only made so many. 00:12:07.100 --> 00:12:08.220 [LUNA] Can we not save it? 00:12:08.820 --> 00:12:10.720 [CELESTIA] You know she wouldn't have wanted that. 00:12:11.380 --> 00:12:14.460 [LUNA] (voice breaking) But she... I... I never got to - 00:12:15.120 --> 00:12:19.480 [CELESTIA] I am sorry for that. I know she was a dear friend to you. 00:12:20.420 --> 00:12:23.080 [LUNA] The only one who ever truly knew my night. 00:12:23.720 --> 00:12:26.820 [CELESTIA] She still knows it, Luna. You know that. 00:12:26.820 --> 00:12:29.900 [GUARD] Princess. The weather captains are waiting for your signal. 00:12:38.840 --> 00:12:40.160 [LUNA] (Voice-Over) Thank you, my friend, 00:12:43.520 --> 00:12:45.060 for everything you gave, 00:12:46.900 --> 00:12:49.680 and every wish you never knew came true. 00:12:53.280 --> 00:12:54.220 (tearfully) Goodbye. 00:12:55.140 --> 00:14:05.400 *somber piano music and chimes* 00:14:08.340 --> 00:14:10.420 *clear, beautiful "twinkle"*