EQG does a better job of having the Remane 5 being actively involved in the big events that occur around them and that’s telling.
I don’t think you understand what I’m saying. I never once said that Starlight was as important as Twilight. All I said was it’s okay to hate characters. Maybe the Twilight example was a bad example, and if so then that’s my fault. All I’m saying is that even though you may not like Starlight, you have to understand that the people behind MLP are still going to have episodes revolving around her. As for Starlight showing up in the finale and being treated like the main character, so what? She’s still a recurring character. And unless there’s a spinoff with her as the main star, she’s going to stay a recurring character.My problem is the characters I like getting dumped into damsels in distress roles to make a character I don’t like look good, that the characters I like have to be shoved down to make another one look good. The Remane 5 (The Mane 6 sans Twilight) don’t do jack squat in the two part episodes. The Remane 5 have never once had to save the day by themselves or had a big epic moment in the spotlight without it being centered on Twilight or Starlight. The closest it’s ever come was during The Cutie Map and that’s it. What ticks me off is I want to see the Remane 5 being active and instead they’re being pushed out because the writers don’t want to tell that story. EQG does a better job of having the Remane 5 being actively involved in the big events that occur around them and that’s telling.
And I already get your counterargument that they have all the other episodes and they’re still important and so on. But that’s where I bring up the President analogy again. Sure we can spend all of our time with Bill and Frank from the office but what the President does is far more important. You can’t compare opening a shop to saving the government for an alien invasion. One is more important in the eyes of the world.
I don’t think you understand what I’m saying. I never once said that Starlight was as important as Twilight. All I said was it’s okay to hate characters. Maybe the Twilight example was a bad example, and if so then that’s my fault. All I’m saying is that even though you may not like Starlight, you have to understand that the people behind MLP are still going to have episodes revolving around her. As for Starlight showing up in the finale and being treated like the main character, so what? She’s still a recurring character. And unless there’s a spinoff with her as the main star, she’s going to stay a recurring character.
@Mr grump
Yes you are right they only have so much screen time. Which is why I was pointing out that whoever makes up Starlight’s team will be irrelevant overall, ie the car metaphor. Every two-parters sans at best the first two use the same precedent in terms of character usage. There is one main character, the villain and occasionally one supporting character that helps the main character out. All the other characters get shoved to the side and not do all that much for the plot outside of their one moment, if they get lucky. The same that will likely go since this entire story is about Starlight Glimmer.Also this show is still episodic so even if pre-established characters are introduced they’d still have to give exposition on them.@Holofan4life
Yeah but it’s SoL vs Finale. It be like saying Bill in accounting is just as important as the President. Sure we can spend all our time with Bill but what the President does is generally more important.
@Mr grump
Popularity =/= Screen time. The entire point of the two-parter is to show off Starlight beingSuper amazinga leader/friendship guru in the same way as Twilight and so will have to pair up with ponies she likely doesn’t know or relate to all to become friends with to show the bonds of unity or something like that so in that regard Trixie’s out because already having that established ruins the arc they are trying to set up. And if Starlight needs someone to confide in, then that’s what they’ll use Spike for (you know, instead of him being the leader which I would find a ton more interesting)
And even then if the Changeling’s don’t show up (though I find this unlikely) Sunburst and Throax have no reason to show up, being in the Crystal Empire and potentially too far away to help.@Holofan4life
Twilight Sparkle was there from day one, she was a part of the very backbone of the show. Starlight was added on 5/6 of the way through it’s current run. With Twilight you knew what you were getting from day one, not with Starlight. The problem I have is that this character which I don’t like is usurping most of the Mane 6 and being presented to us as more important than them.Also how the heck did I get into a debate with two Nicholas Cages?
Also how the heck did I get into a debate with two Nicholas Cages?
@Mr grump
But once again the most boring aspect as you put it is the center of the entire plot, the thing which the entire story is based off of. It’d be like say a car is super awesome because it has a kick ass radio and racing stripes when the engine is a two-cylinder rip off from an underpowered moped. Sure the car has some flash but no substance.@Background Human
The timelines were just filler and padding to stretch the episode out to the time length. The timelines in and of themselves did nothing other than to show Starlight was doing bad with the whole time line manipulation thing.
