I can’t remember shadow play that well but I do remember thinking ‘shut the hell up Starlight’ during the episode. I remember being super annoyed she ended up saving the day for this one. That was 2 season finales in a row Starlight played center stage beating the bad guy and it felt kind of overwhelming. I remember not liking starlight that much at this point mostly because I felt like the writers were really desperate to make me like her. That and she would keep bringing up her past mistakes as a villain every 2 seconds made me even less of a fan. With a bloated main cast like MLP had, I get its hard to organically grow characters individually in short periods of time when you have others to focus on and it felt to me like S6-7 Starlight was suffering from this. I don’t think it was really until S8 and after I really warmed to her. Especially in comparison to trying to develop the student 6 in the last 2 seasons despite the already huge cast list, Starlight really wasn’t so bad by the end of the show.