I’m okay with this.

From what i’ve seen, it looks like the writers prefer working with these characters as opposed to the Mane 6. I can’t blame them, their characters have been exhausted.
 
I hope they reboot MLP soon, it needs a fresh start.

This wasn’t funny, nor was it true when people started doing it with Princess Twilight, three goddamned years ago. Nor will it be funny or true with whatever they do for the start of Season 8. The upcoming episodes are:
 
Twilight Episode  
Pinkie and Maud episode  
Fluttershy episode  
Rarity and Sweetie Belle episode  
Rainbow Dash and Family episode  
Cutie Mark Crusaders and Big Mac episode
 
Anyone who genuinely believes that it’s become the “Starlight & Trixie Show” is delusional.

@Background Pony #E14E  
You find I refreshing because you like the characters. I don’t because the characters I like are being pushed into the corner. And of all the Mane 6 Twilight is my least favorite. The Mane 6 have a fucking ton of growth in them it’s just the writers gave them a conclusion already and don’t want to mess that up instead of pushing and continuing with these characters.

@Background Pony #7FCE  
Mp surprise there. Twilight’s story was supposed to have ended in s3 finale. Ever since her alicornification they’ve been having trouble looking for ways to do things with Twilight that Hasbro can approve of. Trixie and Starlight aren’t are prilegded as Twilight and feel more genuine anyways. They have more growth potential than the mane 6 given the mane 6 already did a lot that in the first three seasons.
 
I find the dynamic between Starlight and Trixie refreshing to a show that’s been stagnating for a few seasons already. But at least now we have more characters for Twilight to interact with and make her feel less unusable or overpowered. Starlight and Trixie is exactly what was needed to make Twilight feel less plastic.
 
Here’s hoping they continue the pace with giving older characters and new ones ways to freshen up this mane 6 on mane 6 old trope. It’s good to be able to make fun of yourself and these two do well to poke that good natured fun at the show’s mane characters.

Yup! All true!

to be honest Im glad trixies role is bigger now (…even when apparently she is just the starlights friend now) I hope to see her as a regular character

You have no idea how okay with this I’d be!!!

@Thrond  
Because you don’t share the same bias, just saying. It’s a matter of point of view more than anything.

@Background Pony #7FCE  
Which I think is rather silly and unfounded.

I’d be down for this.

@Thrond  
I don’t deny people are being hyperbolic, it’s the internet after all, but to me it shows a deep passion overall. The season 6 finale was rather serious you have to admit that, regardless of whether you took it so or not. The shoe is good when it’s doing comedy but then it tries to balance this with the dramatic of the premier and finales, it fails to do so because of the massive shift and because of the two tone difference I feel the Mane 6 aren’t given the proper treatment in the two parters because of how things were set up in the show overall. But like I said earlier it’s more a feeling that the writers care more about Starlight and Trixie over the Mane 6, that to the writers they aren’t important.

@Background Pony #7FCE  
But I still think claims that she’s taken over the show are melodramatic when she doesn’t even appear in the majority of episodes. To be honest, I didn’t consider the S6 finale to be overly serious either, even with its relatively high stakes. Again I might be biased because I think this show is at its best when it’s comedic, but especially with season 7’s not terribly serious slice-of-life premiere, I think people are going way over the top with these concerns. If the mane six weren’t important, they wouldn’t still fill the vast majority of the show.

@Thrond  
I disagree with the finale, as like you said it is rather disappointing to see your favorite characters get shoved aside especially since they’ve never really starred in one, only at best playing a support role for Twilight. The reason is that there is a difference between the more mundane (thought decent) Slice of life episodes and the more epic two parters. You have Rarity opening a shop and it’s a comedy. You have Rainbow joining the Wonderbolt and it’s played for laughs. Then you have Starlight go and stop the Changelings and it’s played of drama. There is a level of importance there that Starlight is being given that the Mane 6 aren’t as much. And like I said this it the first outing of the season, the first impression. The writers want to put their best foot forward and they choice Starlight and not the Mane 6. It gives an impression that Starlight is more important than the Mane 6.

@Background Pony #7FCE  
These are newer main characters who have most of their growth still ahead of them, so they are important - at least as much as the CMC, and seeing Starlight save the world in that last finale was a huge change of pace from what we’ve seen before. While I don’t agree, I get why you would be disappointed that the ostensibly biggest episodes in scale don’t star your favourite characters, and I get why you’d be disappointed that the new season doesn’t begin with your favourite characters, but acting as if all of those other episodes which have nothing to do with Starlight don’t exist and don’t matter is melodramatic nonsense. This one wasn’t even a two-parter! Wait a week, will ya?

@Thrond  
It’s the premier though. These are the episodes where they make a above and beyond effort to put thier best foot forward. These are the episodes where they show off what they think is important and we treat it as important. So to have these two be the biggest and most central characters of the premier suggests they are very important characters. Add on top of that that the Mane 6 are routinely kicked off to the side especially in the last four episodes suggests they aren’t important and that ticks people off because they came for the Mane 6, not these two characters

I didn’t really like this episode much, but I too would certainly watch this.
 
Those thinking this is what the show’s become are being ridiculous though. Next several episodes don’t feature them at all.

You know what, I’d watch it.

Yes, please.

One hand, I’d get to see Starlight.
 
On the other hand, I’d have to put up with fucking Trixie.
 
Not sure if want…

Two episodes does not constitute a whole “show,” buuuuuut I’d watch it.

@Any Pony  
We’re already seeing it.

@Joshua  
Totally wouldn’t. And I’m not.

I’d see it

It was a good episode of the Trixie & Glimmer show though.