Ponyville Guest Lecture Series: Discord

She asks what he did to be turned into a statue and he replies, "By being myself." The studio audience lends their sympathy by 'awwwing' and applauding Discord's courage to keep living.  Fanfics, comics and ask blogs appear all over the internet by those who disapprove of picking on their favorite character.

In fact they go out of their way to write what should have happened and feel that theirs is how things would have gone if the episodes were split into multiple parts.