@Background Pony #2A85  

@Background Pony #2A85  
Sometimes the “sins” aren’t even bad things in the movie( secret life of pets a guy has variety in his diet).  
I also be number in the Pacific Rim video and said that his Xbox One was in the container that they grabbed instead of using the Xbox One being in there as a punchline to a joke connecting to a sin

@Hebbocake  
What Larson said about “Fame and Misfortune” is that the episode that aired was the episode he wrote. So you’re agreeing that he wrote Starlight’s role? Or do you have another statement from him clarifying that he actually initially wrote Spike in that role?

@Hebbocake  
Larson didn’t say anything about Spike, so again – and as others have done – you’re just making assumptions.

@Background Pony #2A85  
That’s just blatantly wrong, she also stands up to defend Fluttershy.

@northern haste  
What’s the appeal of cinema sins to begin with? It seems less like an actual critique and more like a nitpicker sitting in a theatre pointing out everything they didn’t like about the movie in the voice of a disgruntled guy dragged along to a chickflick by his girlfriend.

@Hebbocake  
They get too forced.  
It was ppov that made me stop reading them as one thing was that they want letting the cupcake meme die just because they said cupcake but another SIM was that the Crab wasn’t a giant crab

@Jarkes  
Like I said, we’re gonna have to disagree, especially when a writer’s omly contribution to a Season is a script only brought out of the woodwork a year after he leaves and the character of Starlight mimics almost completely what Spike would have done in the situation ie. defending Rarity while letting the rest of the criticisms of his friends not get him quite as riled up. The fact that Starlight had zero entries in the journal itself as opposed to Spike. Then of course there is the fact that he’s not in the episode at all, which if you reversed their roles, would mean that Starlight wouldn’t have been there, which as I said earlier, makes much more sense than what we actually got. You want proof, go dignaround for it yourself. You like Starlight, seeing as you have her as your profile pic, that’s fine too. Still, the writers were really trying to get Starlight into places she really bad little to no place being. Fame and Misfortune, just as in SAYS could have been easily updated for S7 by replacing Spike with Starlight.

@ImperfectXIII
 
@Background Pony #5E70  
What Larson said. Even then, one can easily see that it was supposed to be Spike’s role, especially in the Rarity scene.
 
@Background Pony #2A85  
This too.

@northern haste  
Not really. His Sin Polls are 100% correct 90% of the time. (Cuz sometimes there is a bullsbit one, ye)

@Hebbocake  
You have proof of the contrary?

This is a legitimate concern. Compare how much time Twilight and Spike spent together—especially in terms of physical contact, like hugs or “reassurance touches”—in seasons one through five to the last two seasons. They are growing apart, and it isn’t Spike’s doing.

@Justice4243  
The only “evidence” I’ve seen so far is that (1) it seems odd to exclude a character who would have written %10 chapters of the journal, and (2) M. A. Larson said at the end of season 5 that “Amending Fences” was the last episode* he wrote for the series, and it would be really odd to write a script with Starlight as a protagonist during a season when she was the Big Bad. On the other hand, there’s his statement I mentioned earlier from a BronyCAN 2017 panel where he says the episode that aired was the episode he wrote, without saying anything about Spike’s absence. As much sense as it would make for Spike to be in his script, I’d have to view that as speculation without stronger evidence to support it.
 
%* – I’m aware of his writing credit for “Rarity Investigates!”, but that was still the same season and it was changed so much from his script that he felt he shouldn’t have been credited.~
 
@Hebbocake  
Do you, perhaps, have evidence that it wasn’t? Because all I’ve been seeing are inferences and suppositions, and no matter how much sense they make, they still aren’t evidence.

@Jarkes  
I unfollowed because I was just losing interest in his comics and his biggest sin polls had the exact same problem as cinema Sins

And this is why I removed PB from my watchlist on Deviantart, because most of his comics are just attempts to deliberately start shit these days.

@Background Pony #2A85
 
Saying something is true when there’s zero evidence for it and it’s most likely not true isn’t something you can “disagree” on, mate.

@Jarkes  
Like I said, I guess we’ll have to disagree on that one.

@ImperfectXIII  
No it wasn’t.

@cdcdrr  
Her role as voice of reason this season used to be Spike’s thing, at least to Twilight. I may be just a little miffed that Spike got the Applejack treatment this season but even still, her role in to change a changeling could have been easily filled by a number of other main characters.

@Background Pony #2A85
 
Uh huh… And can you give me an actual source for this claim? Because I have yet to see any source other than “It FEELS like this is the case”.
 
In fact, Larson even said that everything in the final version of the episode was in fact written by him and it was always written for season 7.

@Background Pony #2A85
 
Yes… Perfect.”
 
@Background Pony #2A85
 
That does make a bit more sense. And I agree that Spike should have at least make an appearance. Especially that Rarity part. What hurt here is he had written in the journal and Starlight didn’t. I feel it’s somewhat debatable whether he needed to be present in some of the other eps that had Starlight and no Spike, but his absence in Fame and Misfortune felt particularly egregious and seeing Starlight, an outside, run around makes one feel he was indeed swapped out.
 
I guess it’s nice that there’s plenty of evidence to suggest that?

@Background Pony #2A85  
OK, yeah, that I’ll mostly agree with. I like her well enough and enjoyed most of her appearances this season, but personally I’d rather them focus a little less on her in the future; and while I think most of her appearances this season made sense and added to their respective episodes, I can understand how several of them (half-ish?) could feel unnecessary, particularly to someone who doesn’t care for her.

@ImperfectXIII  
I guess we’ll just have to disagree on this one.

@Background Pony #5E70  
I got it off TVTropes so make of that what you will, though they’re pretty reliable in my past experiences, even if some of the articles can get a little fangasm-ish.

@Background Pony #2A85  
Yeah, that’s a load of shit. That role in Fame and Misfortune was always intended to be Starlight’s.