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Exactly.
A lot of people have lost faith in the show because of its ineptitude to wrap finale's and premier's stories in anything BUT a shoddy Barbie ending.
Examples?
They spend ages trying to convince us that Twilight being made an alicorn princess was an earned and natural conclusion...
Payoff? Abandoned. Flurry Heart is born an alicorn princess, making Twilight's 'ascension' completely meaningless beyond obvious mentor nepotism, and even Celestia of all people is losing patience with Twilight in S6.
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They create a new character for S5 and S6, Starlight Glimmer(with the most unoriginal OC name in history) who tried to create a society of ponies who hated their lives due to their cutie marks, was a villain due to doing the other extreme, and opening up important questions and possible balance for future ponies who don't like their destiny....
Payoff? Abandoned. No middleground is ever considered or discussed. The others, including Starlight herself, has convinced themselves that Starlight stole cutie marks against their will and pretended there wasn't an underlying cause on why the villagers abandoned their old lives due to issues with their cutie marks. Heck, they still hate their old lives since they are still in hiding in the remote village Starlight founded. But everyone's overjoyed because the natural order shouldn't be questioned ever /sarcasm
And the character herself, Starlight? They decide to not only make her backstory impossible when it was revealed she could of easily entered Celestia's academy before she got her cutie mark, she completely abandons her old philosophy and major issues and they simply skip the process of her becoming a flawed but trusted companion entirely. The most important part of her character was rushed in a few minute montage.
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The changelings, almost all born killers and many grow up to be mean-spirited deceivers who enjoy being changelings, with just a few aberrations who learn to love and evolve without absorbing love like Thorax(and Kevin)....
Payoff? Abandoned. Just giving even a little bit of love would suddenly transform them into antler fairies. We can just forget that the changelings are killing machines from birth and most enjoy what they do as adults...they follow Thorax's example for a second, and they're cured for life never to feed again. After at least a thousand years (Chrysalis was around as far back as when the Princess Platinum and the unicorns built Canterlot), one suggestion from one pony and one defector who grew to be more humane over a EXTENDED period of time suddenly turns an entire hive of changelings into supposedly harmless antler fairies.
This is not one of those harmony blaster situations where its the equivalent of a second chance; where a person looks into a magic mirror and it shows them the ugliness their soul has accumulated, and it shocks them to a point where they can reject their inner demons(very common trope). This is full on lobotomy, they were straight up born with negative inclinations and most of them embraced it with gusto. They guys replacing the Mane 6 and many others were overachievers. Assuming no lobotomy, most of the changelings are going to be mean spirited and aggressive creatures who are only slightly less on edge due to no hunger for emotions
Because Hasbro has to wrap everything in a nice little Barbie bow :/
Exactly.
A lot of people have lost faith in the show because of its ineptitude to wrap finale's and premier's stories in anything BUT a shoddy Barbie ending.
They spend ages trying to convince us that Twilight being made an alicorn princess was an earned and natural conclusion...
Payoff? Abandoned. Flurry Heart is born an alicorn princess, making Twilight's 'ascension' completely meaningless beyond obvious mentor nepotism, and even Celestia of all people is losing patience with Twilight in S6.
----
They create a new character for S5 and S6, Starlight Glimmer(with the most unoriginal OC name in history) who tried to create a society of ponies who hated their lives due to their cutie marks, was a villain due to doing the other extreme, and opening up important questions and possible balance for future ponies who don't like their destiny....
Payoff? Abandoned. No middleground is ever considered or discussed. The others, including Starlight herself, has convinced themselves that Starlight stole cutie marks against their will and pretended there wasn't an underlying cause on why the villagers abandoned their old lives due to issues with their cutie marks. Heck, they still hate their old lives since they are still in hiding in the remote village Starlight founded. But everyone's overjoyed because the natural order shouldn't be questioned ever /sarcasm
And the character herself, Starlight? They decide to not only make her backstory impossible when it was revealed she could of easily entered Celestia's academy before she got her cutie mark, she completely abandons her old philosophy and major issues and they simply skip the process of her becoming a flawed but trusted companion entirely. The most important part of her character was rushed in a few minute montage.
----
The changelings, almost all born killers and many grow up to be mean-spirited deceivers who enjoy being changelings, with just a few aberrations who learn to love and evolve without absorbing love like Thorax(and Kevin)....
Payoff? Abandoned. Just giving even a little bit of love would suddenly transform them into antler fairies. We can just forget that the changelings are killing machines from birth and most enjoy what they do as adults...they follow Thorax's example for a second, and they're cured for life never to feed again. After at least a thousand years (Chrysalis was around as far back as when the Princess Platinum and the unicorns built Canterlot), one suggestion from one pony and one defector who grew to be more humane over a EXTENDED period of time suddenly turns an entire hive of changelings into supposedly harmless antler fairies.
This is not one of those harmony blaster situations where its the equivalent of a second chance; where a person looks into a magic mirror and it shows them the ugliness their soul has accumulated, and it shocks them to a point where they can reject their inner demons(very common trope). This is full on lobotomy, they were straight up born with negative inclinations and most of them embraced it with gusto. They guys replacing the Mane 6 and many others were overachievers. Assuming no lobotomy, most of the changelings are going to be mean spirited and aggressive creatures who are only slightly less on edge due to no hunger for emotions
Because Hasbro has to wrap everything in a nice little Barbie bow :/