bitch please, this isnt even nearly half as freaky as any of the shit older and sometimes even newer cartoons pull out.

remember the lich?

It was kind of a, almost comically done, over dramatization. And I think that's the point.

Maybe that isn't exactly what would have happened, but Luna was trying to stress how something little can have harsh consequences.

Perhaps that's how Nightmare Moon came about? It was just a little straw that finally broke the pony's back.