@Peace Petal
Twilight didn’t take away magic. the crystals were literally still giving them magic

@Background Pony #B962
I agree, they fumbled way too hard on the original continuity from G4, keeping it in a separate universe could’ve made things clearer.

As much as I enjoy even more senseless anti G5 bashing, oh wait, no I don’t.

That sounds so moronic, haha

Why didn’t they just start their own universe instead of trying to mess with G4’s world

@Peace Petal
Yeah, the writers are more to blame. They made her look evil as you so claim.

Friendship is magic. Instead of stopping Opaline the easy way (made easy by years of building alliances and fostering friendly attitudes at the School of Friendship), Twilight divided them and did Opaline’s job for her.

Or rather the writers did that. Again, it’s disjointed with the ending of S9. Things never should have gotten that desperate after the optimistic ending of FiM. One easy way for the writers to fix this was to have a bigger time skip where Twilight was long since dead before Opaline wrecked everything. But no, that would’ve made too much sense.

@Mr.Myoozik
Twilight is smart and could have thought of better alternative solutions. It’s just that the writers had no logic in mind.

@Background Pony #4301
Yeah basically, so it was either that or have another Tirek moment

@Mr.Myoozik
It’s not like there was no other option without taking magic away to prevent Opaline from getting power, right??

G5 has been a disappointing train wreck.

Though I suppose it could never reach the bar FIM set, even if Hasbro put in the effort.

@Peace Petal
Personally, I don’t view that as Twilight being “evil”. I don’t know if you’ve actually seen Make Your Mark, but the reason why she did that is because Opaline, the main antagonist of G5 wanted all the three tribes’ powers to grow her own alicorn magic, and Twilight had to take drastic measures to prevent that by splitting the magic into three crystals to make sure that Opaline doesn’t steal it, which had the consequence of splitting the three tribes and lose their friendship with one another.

Is it a ridiculous and far fetched plan? Maybe, but I highly doubt that she did it out of malice or for the lulz.

@Peace Petal
Yeah yeah, Twilight bad now. G5 bad now. Any other news?

@WaynePonePone
The world presented at the start of the movie was a dystopia. If Twilight’s actions caused all that, that makes her a catastrophic failure at best and downright evil at worst.

Of course, that’s not to say that I ever thought that the real Twilight is evil. Just that the G5 writers Missed the Mark and started retconning stuff. But FiM’s lore definitely takes precedence.

@Peace Petal
None of these say Twilight is evil.

@Background Pony #B962
Well, in that G5 pretty much retconned G4’s whole ending and made Twilight evil. There’s the Crystals, taking away magic, separating the pony tribes, putting the dragons to sleep for hundreds of years… It’s hard to tell how many of these were Twilight’s decision because we get different, contradictory versions of how it all went down. But Twilight is not looking good. At the very least, she didn’t prevent any of them, and she’s stated to have directly caused up to three of them, depending on the version. This stuff wasn’t established two years ago, so this comic was pretty prophetic.

@Peace Petal
In how far? Genuine question, I don’t keep up with g5

This aged like fine cheese.

I can imagine this is actually not G6, but rather an in-universe movie adaptation of what happened during the events of A New Generation.

And Twilight and Rarity thought it would be a good idea to get back at Sunny and her friends by doing exactly what they did to Twilight and her friends.

She wouldn’t put this in the final cut, though. This was just because Rarity wanted some payback for Sunny making her look evil, and Twily just wanted to mess with Sunny a bit.

didn’t see any of the g5 series yet so it took until these comments to realize it wasnt a spoiler, and tbh it wasn’t a good idea to have g5 be a continuation of g4, they haven’t done it with any other generation. They’ve dug themselves into a hole of wanting new fans without losing old fans. They have to explain what happened to all the other species to old fans, but new fans don’t know that lore.

@Castrovalva
You mean the one with the YOUTUBE cutie mark? XD

@OneMoreAnonymous
Probably a next gen design joke.

Am I the only one seeing that little flying abomination on the second panel?

The comment also has the possibility of aging badly if Opaline really ends up being a corrupted older character. I can seen them doing that to serve as this generation’s Nightmare Moon for the new audience while doubling as something different for the older fans.

@saturdaymorningproj
Yeah, that sever that would totally dogpile you if you make any negative statement. Which shouldn’t be too surprising.

@saturdaymorningproj
I can tell judging by your other comics

Also, OP/artist replied to me! Look ma, I’m famous! :D