Clock Is Ticking

Sunset Shimmer made no qualms about the fact that she was a racist.

"I've said it before, and I'll say it again: you can't trust those blueskins! All they're good for is athletics and entertainment--just look at Rainbow Dash. They're nature's jesters!"

This, of course, was not the real Sunset Shimmer, but a screen actor trying to get into character as the infamous girl villain. The actor was a modern liberal, and so could not imagine anything worse than racism. Indulging a racist diatribe here and there really made the evilness of the character she was playing come alive.

Elsewhere on the set, the actor playing Spike the Dog sipped a cup of warm honey-lemon tea before starting some vocal warmups. He was, naturally, only a voice actor. Spike was being animated using the latest motion-capture tech for dog actors. The VA reflected briefly on the fact that he would essentially be playing Cyrano de Bergerac for a cartoon, then decided not to think too hard about his career choices--down that road laid despair.

Rainbow Dash's actress, being underage, was hiding in a broom closet, smoking reggie with Rarity's actress before night school started. They were fooling no one, but then again, no one cared.