The point is it happened, so deal with it. There’s no turning back on this ride.

@Background Pony #4C7A  
Her plot’s only slightly taller and more slender. The main difference is her wings.

@Muffen-Man  
Because a new city is nice to see and Coco justified her appearance in the story in half her already minimal screentime.

Absolutely nothing!

Most people drew the baseless conclusion after MMC that Twilight would become something other than herself, as though Celestia had taken her through the gate of knowledge from FMA and she would come to epitomize everything we see in the three princesses come before her.  
If you believe it was worthless to make her a princess because she didn’t adopt the manner (and/or form) of the ‘princess template’ stereotype, then your doing just that: stereotyping. And if brony is a term that applies to you, you should know that stereotyping isn’t the way to operate.
 
Hell yes there is money in it, there’s money in every development and character they introduce (whether they capitalize on it or not), but you don’t see anyone moaning about Manehattan coming back or Coco Pommel being introduced.

I can sum it up for you in one word: “Money”.

In fairness the decision to turn twily into an alicorn came late and suddenly and the writers scrambled to write it in and make it glitsy and glamorous so little girls would nag their parents to the $50 doll.
 
And they had to at least have a nod to the Princess thing in the season 4 premier, then after that they could continue writing Princess Twilight Sparkle as Twilight Sparkle with wings she doesn’t use and a few inches taller.
 
Keep reminding yourselves the teenage/adult demogrpahic is NOT the primary one, and certainly not the one moving merchandise. This is why the fandom’s attempts to control the show failed so laughably.

To sell toys. Thought we already established that?  
Rather useless to the story…Might aswell have just turned her back after the end of the 3 parter…  
Hasbro is a toy company…They need to sell toys to stay afloat. I understand that.  
I just think it should have been handled differently….Now we have this….Thing.

To sell toys.
 
I don’t mind Twilicorn but so far its made zip all difference outside the pilot.

@RainbowDashie41  
Hey! Don’t forget she has been a lowly foal-sitter before, to pay for her studies!
 
And to me, it looks like she has had a reign because, buh, it was free…

In-universe theory: Twilight’s still not quite used to her wings (and title) and doesn’t like using them. As for not acting like a princess/using her status to get things such as a cab for everyone in Manehatten, she’s ALWAYS been modest. Remember her first encounter with Trixie?
 
Real world theory: A good chunk of these episodes were locked in (script-wise anyway) before Alicorn Twilight was a thing (perhaps they were intended to be part of Season 3 before it got cut in half).

@WatermelonRat  
It’s not like it’s any different when it ever was. Aside from the letters to Celestia, how much ‘student’ stuff did Twilight ever actually do in the first few seasons? Just like the ‘faithful student’ thing, the ‘princess’ thing will come up when it’s relevant to the story and be marginalized when it’s not.
 
Besides, the only alternative to that would be going out of their way to make up excuses for Twilight to constantly remind everyone she’s a princess during everyone else’s episodes, and nobody wants that.

“either the Season 3 finale should have marked a permanent non-aesthetic change or the alicorn thing shouldn’t have been done at all”  
>opinions
 
@BigMax  
you made a good point, besides the season openers, it is sort of trvializing the whole princess thing so far.
 
thnkfuly i dont care either way :D

Making nerds without a life crazy. Worked perfectly.

@BigMax  

I agree with you, OP.
 
She’s a princess for nothing.  
That’s sad. Not for me, but for little girls that always dreamt of being a princess.
 
Hey listen, kids: your dream sucks!

I’d say it’s a good thing that she hasn’t changed.

I have mixed feelings on this. On one hand, I really like how the season has gone so far. On the other, every episode outside the first have downplayed the change as much as possible. Apart from passing moments of awkwardness when the wings or height change are particularly noticeable, the episodes are as enjoyable to me as they’d normally be.
 
While I’m relieved at this, it also reinforces to me that the change was poorly justified and did little but screw with Twilight’s character design.

Because fuck character development.

Personally, I thought the whole Alicorn Twilight thing was laughable compared to the Death of Optimus Prime back during the Original Transformers run.

@Background Pony #FDA6  
That’s what rationale and sincerity can get you.

@Background Pony #FDA6
 
I see people disagreeing with each other, which by our definition might as well be synonymous with “drama.’

It’s a fucking miracle,i read all the comments and…no drama….my god.

@LucifersSeraph  
thanks man