@DaggerBark979427-_~’  
Forget it. You’re hopeless.

Its been a while now that the movie is out and noone made a single piece of art of the poor petrified princesses. :( Im sad.

Well, at least Celestia won’t be constantly opening and closing her eyes for some creepy reason this time.

@RogerMaxson  
Royal Guard: AH!!! Your Highness! Oh no, this is terrible!…… Who’s gonna sign my paycheck?

@cloudkicker108  
Agreed. It still looks like it’ll do good.

@Esteban  
It also never follows up on what happened to the princesses after they were turned to stone. Let’s hold on drawing conclusions until after the movie has been released.

@cloudkicker108  
It described the Tempest fighting the fish guy in a very detailed way so it doesn’t look like they skipped much of a Princesses fight.

@Esteban  
And how do you know that without even having seen the movie? The oversimplified novelization isn’t exhaustive and doesn’t cover every last detail (it barely covers the major points for that matter).

@Firebrand96  
She doesn’t look like putting up a fight. From what i read it’s Cadance who at least try to charge at Tempest while Celestia give Twilight a quest before being caught off in the middle of a sentence.

I’m sure the writers gave Celestia a shred of dignity and had her put up a decent fight before being petrified rather than allowing her to be utterly trashed with little-to-no effort.  
 
With luck, she’ll even be relevant to the plot.

@northern haste  
Really? I must admit I’ve only watched the pilot so far, and it was a big slice of… alright?
 
That makes the comparison even more ludicrous.

@Philweasel  
DuckTales is only one episode in

@Esteban  
Blaming MLP for running out of ideas next to Ducktails seems unfair, because Ducktails is seven episodes in, especially when you focus on a character who joined the mane cast one hundred and eighteen episodes in.
 
Now not to say Disney won’t still have fresh ideas by then, I’m a big fan of their creative direction, but at the moment I can only judge like for like. I’m not enjoying Ducktails first season as much as I’m enjoyed MLP’s first season, in fact due to slightly generic and bland writing.

@Philweasel  
It just started its series but already made a focus on Donald acting as foter father to the triplets and it started a plotline about his sister.  
Ducktales is a perfect combination of adventures and slice fo life connected with interesting plotlines and character development. MLP doesn’t know what to do with theirs. When they run out of messages for mane6, they introduce bland character like Glimmer and focus the seasons on her. The Movie itelf ignore any development of Pony alliance with Yaks, Changeling, Dragons and Fluttershy’s bond with Discord in order to force a ridiculous quest to find a new hippogrifs race just because toy departament wanted new characters and not something that make sense. The writing team is subpar to the show they were given. Lauren Faust, AMy Rogers and MA Larson had much more ambition to make this series more epic than the executives of Hasbro that now run this show.

@Esteban  

 
What’s wrong with slice of life comedy?
 
I’ll agree with Steven Universe, but Ducktales hasn’t super impressed me with it’s writing yet actually. And if you’re talking about the old series, I consider it about the same.

Let’s not pretent that writing in MLP was ever great. It was never on the level of Ducktales or Steven Universe. It was made by dozens of writers focused on slice of life comedy.

@The Lunar Rebel  
Just tell me what’s the joke.

@Background Pony #C76D  
You mean the “plot deus ex machina” that had been established in the second episode of the season and that came directly from the “plot deus ex machina” that the first two episodes of the series laid as the foundation for the rest of the series? That “plot deus ex machina”?

@DaggerBark979427-_~’  
You obviously don’t get a joke… or reference (_). Loosen up and get a life, will you?

@Background Pony #C76D  
You wouldn’t happen to know a fimfiction poster by the name of Alondro, would you?

@Amethyst_Crystal  
You mean, the moment where she insanely decided to hand their combined power to dumbest and least experienced of 4 leaders, instead of fighting herself, which ended up with Twilight folding nearly instantly and handed win to Tirek on silver platter. Brilliant plan. Especially seeing Tirek had 3 hostages and wouldn’t even need that contrived fight scene if he threatened Twilight with Celestia’s well being being hostage. If not for plot deus ex machina Twilight had doomed them all without thinking of consequences…

@Background Pony #5C78  
Nope!

Celestia is a living joke.

@Background Pony #6B60  
Don’t get me wrong, I understand, thematically, why the other Princesses have to be marginalized.
 
I’ll have to see the movie to be make informed judgements, but I can’t help but feel there will be ways it could have been done better.
 
Having said that, I totally agree with your the gist of your second point; you can’t please everyone, no matter what you do.
 
Whatever happens with the other princesses, it won’t ruin the movie for me.

@Background Pony #80C6  
Well, that would keep the villain and the purported heroes apart for most of the movie, and would also mean that either the villain would have minimal screen time, or the depiction of his fight with the royal sisters would take time away from what should be the main story of the movie.
 
And, going by past behavior, the fandom would bitch and moan about Celestia’s portrayal anyway.