@100SGX  
It is kinda, it’s rated PG

@Background Pony #71E1  
Well, Coraline wasn’t at all a kids movie and Harry Potter is meh.

@100SGX  
Well, what’s wrong with a little scary imagery? Look at movies like Coraline or Harry Potter or a lot of kids movies from the 80’s.
 
While I’m disappointed they didn’t stick with the first image, im still glad we got this dark visual and hope for more like it in future episodes

@Background Pony #71E1  
I mean, this is not scary for any of us. But a 3-7 year old kid?
 
I also wanted to be like the leaks version but is pretty clear what were the intentions.

@100SGX  
Huh, that’s interesting. I kinda wish they’d stuck with first one, why’d they change it?

@Background Pony #597B  
this reminds me of this star trek episode with commander data.  
at which point is something a living being?  
is something not a living being just because it is made of electronic?  
at the end it is just too easy to say its made out of electronic or magic that is why it is not a real living being.  
there are a few basic traits that define what a living being is.  
and i think this clones are having this traits.  
they are inteligent, can feel, have fear, and pretty much behave like every other living being.  
especially this evil twilight seems pretty smart.  
and apparently many bronies and fans already found their fav villain in her.  
so i have a pretty hard time to not see her as a living being and i feel kind of bad for her.

@Sparrow9612  

@Background Pony #71E1  

All in favour of FIM trying out more dark imagery like this?

@100SGX  
What do you mean tried to fix it?

@neo4812  
Soccer moms were already replaced with SJW’s and feminists complaining about everything

“I don’t feel so good…”

“You cursed tree! Look what you’ve done! I’m melting! melting! Oh, what a world! What a world! Who would have thought a overgrown weed like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness? Oooooh, look out! I’m going! Oooooh! Ooooooh!”

@Esteban  
that and soccer moms to bitch that its to scary for there weak minded children

Who sprayed water on Twilight?

Even thought they tried to fix this scene is still pretty horrifying to kids.

@DragonBoi471  
The leaked version had even more disfigured mane6 dying. That version would have cause an uproar in the fandom.

#youknowforkids

They did have sentience; what a way to go out like that.

@Hellfire  
well we don’t know if there dead or not, it could be like the psycho rangers and they may return nest season

@fishsandwich  
You Imbecile!-Dying evil Twilight

Christ, Hasbro! First you give the ponies creepy, HotDiggedyDemon-esque facial expressions in S6, and now in this episode you pull a Raiders of the Lost Ark reference? Are you trying to scare away your target audience or something?

@PonyPon  

 
It may not have recognized the danger when she first tapped into it to activate the time loop (even here it was slow to react to the evil Mane 6, they each had to touch it first), and from there the only way to stop the loop was for Starlight to give up. Its the living spirit of the land, but it may not have conventional intelligence.
 
Or, it may have been counting on Twilight to use the events to redeem Starlight, and thus chose not to intervene until that had happened. The Tree’s main goal seems to always be to expand the influence of the magic of friendship and gain allies, and Starlight is a powerful ally.

8 Years of MLP FiM be like: ^