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You bring up the The Last Airbender, and though I don’t think it’s in any way comparable to Friendship is Magic just because they’re both for kids…The Last Airbender, despite its more mature themes, DID have a happy ending! And when it came time to do a sequel series, the Legend of Korra–as problematic and controversial as it was–didn’t need to bring down The Last Airbender’s ending to justify itself.
I agree that the darker/more actionized works tend to be more problematic, with this comic/poor explanation for what happened to G4 being prime examples. However:
Okay, to go by point here;
@Macaroni C-Pony
If fans didn’t want this why did they feel the need to make so many darker or actionized fanworks? How was “A Canterlot Wedding” and “Twilight’s Kingdom” so well received, despite the formers divisive happenings, that the more serious formula was stuck to for the rest of the series if it didn’t have most fans, including said kids, like it?
There’s a difference between Shakespearian tragedies, and a franchise like MLP that is based on positivity and love and comfort. People expect and WANT happy endings and satisfying conclusions in their escapist shows about friendly candy-colored horses. As they should; kids want and love their happy, satisfying endings, and kids were meant to be the target demographic. Who wants MLP to be written like a Shakespearian tragedy? What KID wants MLP to be like a Shakespearian tragedy?
If a work is only good if it’s satisfying, than Shakespeare’s work would widely be seen as bad because they oft have downer endings.
Agreed. Celestia was too dependent on Twilight, and Twilight was too insecure or oblivious.
Twilight and was letting her admiration of Starswirl, who thought them irredeemable, get in the way of her normal judgement.
It was Celestia’s plan, but Twilight still went along with it never questioning it despite how wrong it turned out to be. That’s my big problem with Twilight taking the throne, she never realized Celetia’s fallibility in a way that stuck and how she displayed better effectiveness than her over the series which would have justified their replacing her.
Reforming Stygian was Starlight’s idea?
Hmm, okay, I’ll concede your points there. I’ll say that the planning in Twilight’s Kingdom was Celestia’s idea and thus not really the fault of Twilight’s stress, but with the rest I totally see what you mean.
I think you misunderstood why I brought up Twilight’s stress as a characteristic to her character. I brought it up because Twilight being easily stressed and anxious was tied to the reason why she wasn’t a reckless character. Her stress wouldn’t lead her to making rash decisions–or at least, that wasn’t the first thing she’d resort to. The first thing she’d do is overthink and overorganize so that everything turns out perfectly. That’s the kind of stress that makes it hard for me to believe that she’d make that insane decision with the crystals.
Shadow Play, The Movie, so many other moments of Twilighting it has it’s own name. Stress/her eccentricities overwhelming the part of her that would think such out isn’t OOC, it’s her main character flaw. She got better over Season 9 but the finale showed that it can still crumble, and it’s unrealistic to assume anyone can 100% overcome their most ingrained flaws.
I did not notice that. Weird, I think it’d make more sense if Opaline disguised her wings with magic than with her mane 🤨Real convenient of her than a strong breeze hadn’t blown her hair away from her wings.
I guess I can accept your other theories on how Opaline could’ve always been an alicorn tho, but we’ll have to wait and see what the show confirms.
Twilight was a lot of things, but reckless was not one of them. On the contrary–she was so prudent she’d constantly overthink on the worst scenarios. She developed out of her anxiety in the show, sure, but I think it’s a stretch to say that Twilight wouldn’t think of the repercussions of sealing magic away in the crystals.
They were wearing their hair down enough to cover their wings.
OOC of Twilight how? Most of the villain she’s bested required such magical deus ex machina to do so. And it for now avoid stating what happened that was so bad they resorted to such (it will be valid complaint if they never give the reason).
Well, realistically there’s no actual way to build a utopia. It’s impossible for society to truly erase all of it’s issues, even in a theoretical golden age, especially across generations which tend to develop different ideologies than their predecessors. Twilight herself literally states in the last episode:
Do you think the Mane Six destroyed all evil when they alongside the Young Six and the Pillars defeated the Legion of Doom?