Really? Trixie is the coolest character in TWABA. She gets the most development, her moments are the most emotionally resonant, she’s far more useful than anyone not named Thorax (and she rivals him) and she pretty much gets the final lines of the episode. Her motivation was both revelant to the themes of the show and really pertinent to her development, she was being loyal to her friend.
The fact that it wasn’t all about a single character was why I liked it.
Thorax on the other hand I do have a issue with. He should have been the hero of the episode, but it was obvious that he really needed another episode beforehand to set up his conflict.
Honestly though Starlight is the main character but she’s a very soft main character. She doesn’t do much, doesn’t defeat the villain, and though her motivation is focused on there are other motivations as well that all get screentime.
Hell, compare it to Twilight’s Kingdom or Princess Twilight, where everything is about Twilight and the others simply act like sounding boards for her issues. Especially Princess Twilight, where not only are the characters worfed, they’re generally made to look like bloody imbeciles beforehand.
That’s about the best thing you can say about her weird current status of main character except when not.
Ever since Twilight became an alicorn, it seems to me the writers can’t think of how to use her without taking the spotlight away. I think their intention with adding another unicorn to the mane cast was to get someone to fill the role Twilight can’t due to status.
Except they shot themselves on the foot by making said unicorn Twilight’s expy, complete with magic potential on par with unicorn Twilight. And then further muddied the issue by having Starlight take the role of Twilight’s student, so the two are basically joined at the hip whenever crisis happens.
And then baffingly decided to develop her completely independent of the Remane 5, giving her limited screentime with them and instead creating her own social circle independent of Twilight’s.
So instead of an unicorn that plays Twilight’s old role as unicron within the Mane cast, you get Twilight and her powerful magic student working together to solve a conflict. And I guess the Remane 5 were there too, paying lip-service to their status as mane characters due to being the other five element bearers.
If they even hint at Starlight becoming an alicorn in the future, it is effectively game over for anyone still invested on the Remane 5.