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“What I like about this ending as well is that Sprout gets a bit of a slap on the wrist instead of being completely let go despite the destruction he caused.”
I’m not sure I’d go that far. It feels more like not really well thought through. Like the writer(s) were at the point in their list where the villain gets comeuppance, but they forgot they themselves wrote said villain to be a total momma’s boy who’s only taking what she taught him and running with it, or that the core message of the movie was to come together in peace, live and let live, and let bygones be bygones. Somepony caught that, fortunately, before it could be rolled out and we have an ending more viewers found acceptable.
This horrible, and thankfully scrapped, ending feels like a bad AU fanfic by a Sprout-hater. Does anyone beside Sprout look like they’re in character here? How is this consistent with the rest of the movie? And magic users using magic on non-magic users AGAINST THEIR WILL is so disgusting. And this from Izzy of all unicorns. This is the FIRST thing unicorns do after getting magic, using it on Earth ponies. Oh, and check out Phyllis scapegoating her own son to avoid any responsibility whatsoever.
Yeah. I get it. A scene where they were all working together to clean up the goo or the rubble from the lighthouse would be nice. Even if they just showed Sprout in the background sweeping beside other ponies would be nice. But we got the “flying dog” scene instead.
@Wolfcho
I never said Sprout should be held responsible for the actions of Maretime Bay as a whole, or that he should be singled out as a scapegoat. I’ve only said that Sprout should be sentenced to community service for probably a day or so to help clean up the mess from his Sprouticus Maximus and the mob he led. All it would take to show that is a scene of Sprout doing his part to clean up Maretime Bay, even if he’d likely be grumpy about having to do it. He was depicted as a lazy coward who tries to weasel out of responsibility, and we even see unicorns who didn’t have anything to do with it setting the trolley back on its tracks just to be helpful.
Sprout giving a panicked apology while being held up by an angry mob is absolutely incongruent with the message of unity, but him having to help clean up the mess he was a notable part of isn’t.
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By punishing Sprout and nobody else, regardless of how light the punishment may be, the movie’s message falls apart and leaves nasty, unfortunate implications.
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My point was the movie’s message though. Like I said before, you put this ending in there and no one would take the message seriously.
This is a new generation, which means a new continuity. Not to mention giving other examples of characters not having to face justice isn’t exactly a strong argument.
A good sheriff is supposed to keep everyone calm, maintain the peace, and be a pillar of strength for the community; Sprout did the exact opposite of that while Hitch was away, and even failed to meet his lowered expectations of “just try not to start a war while I’m gone”. That alone is enough grounds to remove him from the station of deputy (which he really isn’t cut out for anyway). I’m well aware Sprout was just an incompetent idiot who took things too far and wasn’t actively malicious, but he did still incite panic, cause property damage across Maretime Bay, and put other ponies in danger, and he went farther than any other citizen of Maretime Bay to the point of refusing to accept surrender. A crime committed out of ignorance is still a crime, though it typically warrants a much lighter sentence than a crime committed with intent - hence the reason I mentioned community service rather than imprisonment.
I actually rather liked how the true antagonist wasn’t any particular character, but the societal influence of fear and mistrust. The disunity from those was truly the cause of everything, and no individual is to blame for that.
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Do ponies even have wrists?
Well characters hardly ever get punished for doing dumb things. When Twilight enchanted a doll that mind controlled ponies, she was never punished. Her intentions were not innocent either. It was to start a problem for her own benefit.
A better slap on the wrist would be Hitch revoking Sprout’s position as deputy and sentencing him to community service, with a scene of him having to pick up a smoothie cup littered by the pony he stole a smoothie from during “Gonna Be My Day”.
Why? What type of person are you? Do you think things through? All things considered it’s not a good thing to want this to have been the ending. It’s a horribly written mess that would have taken the whole movie down with it. The movie that this would be a fitting ending to cannot be a good one.
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but i do prefer this ending
That’s a TERRIBLE ending. It would have ruined the movie. You should not want poorly thought up junk like this.
If I had to do some changes to the ending, instead of Phyllis distracting Sprout so she can walk away, she would put her hoof on Sprout and say something like “Son, we need to have a talk.” cuz those two really need to communicate.
Being ambiguous is better than being terrible. It IS a better ending because no character got ruined. Izzy wanting revenge on Sprout and Phyllis being the hypocrite of the century does not match the rest of the movie.
That’s what I’ve been saying.