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Why you should like Twilight Sparkle
13 years ago
Why you should like Twilight Sparkle
Twilight Sparkle as I had seen and observed up to now, has been one of the most interesting, memorable, outstanding, and beautiful female characters I had grown to enjoy and loved. My favorite main character being Fluttershy, but I do like Twilight Sparkle for the fact that she has many, many qualities that make her stand out from any other central protagonist that has been in cartoon shows since the beginning of time.
For instance, Twilight Sparkle is not exactly the type of leader who relies on a one solution to solve anything and defeat the bad guys whenever she just decides to pull a giant sword and deal with them at the last seconds of the episode. In fact, she is not even a fighter per se, even though she is one of the most powerful Unicorns that could well be second in power to the likes of Princess Celestia, who is an Alicorn and the equivalent of a deity in the mythos of G4.
Twilight Sparkle starts as a student and practitioner of magic within the city of Canterlot, which is the equivalent of Beverly Hills in California, then as a request from her teacher, the Princess of the Kingdom, moved to live inside a library in a little town called Ponyville, which is several steps down the prestigious rich life that she was accustomed in Canterlot. One could say that she accepted moving only because she had a place that she could be comfortable living in knowing that her love for knowledge and books would be enough to get her by. She was also what some of us could be called a shut-in, always deep into her studies to even care that there is a whole world out there and other interesting individuals to share her interests with. With such qualities, you could never had guessed that she would one day become the leader of a group which had saved their kingdom over and over against incredible odds and characters that well be could had won at the blink of an eye if it wasn't for her perseverance and ability to accept that being intelligent not always means you can do everything by yourself.
Another redeeming quality about Twilight SParkle is that even if she is a very intellectual character, and highly knowledgeable of many subjects, she does not represent the stereotype a character with her qualities share, Twilight Sparkle is in fact, very attractive even if she is an equine and not a human character. Her design says much about her that you could not had guessed she was what Rainbow Dash refers her to as an egghead or a bookworm. Her almond-shaped eyes, well groomed hairstyle, and even a stylish tail along with the interesting colors she was donned with by her creator has given her the proper nomination of brains and looks, something very rare with lead female characters and seldom seen ever since the days when She-Ra Princess of Power also shared back in the 80s.
With these entire qualities one could say she is just another hero in a kid's show who is perfect and even may be considered a Mary Sue just by the praise I had given so far. The truth is quite different from this however, as Twilight Sparkle is anything but perfect, and has been gifted with a few imperfections by her creator which has made her, in my eyes, a very 3rd dimensional character and may I say, very human like. One episode which can be shown just how bad Twilight can get when things get worse when she lets them is Lesson Zero, where she fails to write her daily report to the Princess in time explaining what she learned in the name of Friendship.
Something so simple and easily dismissed, especially by Princess Celestia who is a character of endless patience and love for ever subject she rules over, was like a nuclear bomb inside Twilight's head which kept ticking till the time she literarily exploded and chaos ensued, a chaos so great that the Alicorn Princess herself had to intervene unless Ponyville was drowned into a sea of madness. All because of Twilight overly worrying and mania she developed for something so simple. Being a worrywart and a perfectionist, along with the desire to wish she could do any other thing to maintain order has given Twilight the imperfection that she needs to show the viewer even cute ponies lose it bad if the situation shows itself.
Other instances where Twilight had to learn with trial and error has been during Winter Wrap Up episode, where ponies clear the leftover snow in the last day of Winter to open the way for Spring each year, and where no Magic, something Twilight is even an Element of, is not permitted to use. Twilight desperately sought to see where she could help to the point she broke in tears and his inside a bush until said opportunity opened to her and learned that she could be a part of the annual event even if it meant she would not exactly be physical part of it. We also learned she is very afraid of snakes along the episode. In Heart and Hooves day, the CMC bump into her as they try to find a way to get their beloved teacher a special somepony and ask for a book on the subject. Twilight, being the over enthusiastic pony she is when asked for help, does give them the means to be helped, then reaches in for another book thinking that she has a chance to be able to teach the young fillies about other things, only to find out that they had been long gone as she was looking for said book. In feeling Pinkie Keen, Twilight became very obsessed with Pinkie's supernatural way of predicting misfortune and getting hurt in the process. She at the end of the episode just simply had to accept that there are no easy ways to solve some problems and just go along with the flow.
In About Time, she had to confront what I believed the biggest challenge of all, herself. The episode on which her future self teleported in time to advise her in the past not to worry too much about things backfires when her own self gets highly excited about the theory of being able to use magic for temporal travel and not letting her other explain in detail what is what she is supposed to be prepared for until its too late to do anything but, as any other episode, get worried and make the problem bigger than what it would had seemed. You could surmise that when she realizes there was nothing to be worried about and have a chance to enjoy herself, she then teleports back in time in an attempt to warn herself in the past and the same thing happens as in the beginning of said episode. Twilight, being as highly intellectual as she is, is not very bright and this is one of the many reasons she is such a lovable character.
Perhaps one of the top reasons why she is so lovable as well, its the fact that Twilight Sparkle is a child at heart, as shown when the CMC ask her how she got her mark, and how even as a filly, she was very worried about learning and even getting panicky when things were not going as planned. Her overjoyed after being told she would be Celestia's personal student and earning her mark at the same day also transcends to her adult self, jumping in circles repeating the word yes over and over until she notices others are gathering around her in a moment of bashfulness.
Her innocence is one of the many things Twilight is gifted and one that fits her well, being that her past as a loner and a studious pony with a hunger for knowledge over anything else has never left her even in her current years.
One thing about Twilight Sparkle is her never say die attitude and her eagerness to help others, even if it means she has to put her lecture guards on as seen in the Episode Luna Eclipsed, where the lunar princess comes to Ponyville showing herself after a long first season of being absent when she was turned from being Nightmare Moon. If anything, one could also say that she would reach and try to help antagonists like Trixie who ran away into what seemed her first and only appearance. Of course, we would never know since Twilight appeared not to say anything else when the Great and Powerful escape took place, but then again, Spike sliding into the scene right after she left will never let us see if she did now do we?
If season 3 is indeed the last on the series, I would like to see more about this character's history and what may Lauren Faust had to omit earlier in favor of other characters who share the show. What else is in this Unicorn's mind that we are yet to know and love more of?
I can tell you that even if Twilight is not one of the top favorite characters, she will be one of the most missed in all the Generations of the MLP storyline. If she hadn't been created with such a rich myriad of qualities and the most impressive personality I EVER seen any character had throughout my life as an animation fan, then I would say she would be just another Mary Sue and probably hadn't bothered watching the show after the pilot episode anymore.
I do hope than by the time G5 comes into our lives, the reincarnation of Twilight Sparkle is created more or less with the same qualities we adore about the current generation. Of course that would not be happening, but if her name survives in future generations then it'll be the best honor she could ever had achieved during her times in G4.
Twilight Sparkle as I had seen and observed up to now, has been one of the most interesting, memorable, outstanding, and beautiful female characters I had grown to enjoy and loved. My favorite main character being Fluttershy, but I do like Twilight Sparkle for the fact that she has many, many qualities that make her stand out from any other central protagonist that has been in cartoon shows since the beginning of time.
For instance, Twilight Sparkle is not exactly the type of leader who relies on a one solution to solve anything and defeat the bad guys whenever she just decides to pull a giant sword and deal with them at the last seconds of the episode. In fact, she is not even a fighter per se, even though she is one of the most powerful Unicorns that could well be second in power to the likes of Princess Celestia, who is an Alicorn and the equivalent of a deity in the mythos of G4.
Twilight Sparkle starts as a student and practitioner of magic within the city of Canterlot, which is the equivalent of Beverly Hills in California, then as a request from her teacher, the Princess of the Kingdom, moved to live inside a library in a little town called Ponyville, which is several steps down the prestigious rich life that she was accustomed in Canterlot. One could say that she accepted moving only because she had a place that she could be comfortable living in knowing that her love for knowledge and books would be enough to get her by. She was also what some of us could be called a shut-in, always deep into her studies to even care that there is a whole world out there and other interesting individuals to share her interests with. With such qualities, you could never had guessed that she would one day become the leader of a group which had saved their kingdom over and over against incredible odds and characters that well be could had won at the blink of an eye if it wasn't for her perseverance and ability to accept that being intelligent not always means you can do everything by yourself.
Another redeeming quality about Twilight SParkle is that even if she is a very intellectual character, and highly knowledgeable of many subjects, she does not represent the stereotype a character with her qualities share, Twilight Sparkle is in fact, very attractive even if she is an equine and not a human character. Her design says much about her that you could not had guessed she was what Rainbow Dash refers her to as an egghead or a bookworm. Her almond-shaped eyes, well groomed hairstyle, and even a stylish tail along with the interesting colors she was donned with by her creator has given her the proper nomination of brains and looks, something very rare with lead female characters and seldom seen ever since the days when She-Ra Princess of Power also shared back in the 80s.
With these entire qualities one could say she is just another hero in a kid's show who is perfect and even may be considered a Mary Sue just by the praise I had given so far. The truth is quite different from this however, as Twilight Sparkle is anything but perfect, and has been gifted with a few imperfections by her creator which has made her, in my eyes, a very 3rd dimensional character and may I say, very human like. One episode which can be shown just how bad Twilight can get when things get worse when she lets them is Lesson Zero, where she fails to write her daily report to the Princess in time explaining what she learned in the name of Friendship.
Something so simple and easily dismissed, especially by Princess Celestia who is a character of endless patience and love for ever subject she rules over, was like a nuclear bomb inside Twilight's head which kept ticking till the time she literarily exploded and chaos ensued, a chaos so great that the Alicorn Princess herself had to intervene unless Ponyville was drowned into a sea of madness. All because of Twilight overly worrying and mania she developed for something so simple. Being a worrywart and a perfectionist, along with the desire to wish she could do any other thing to maintain order has given Twilight the imperfection that she needs to show the viewer even cute ponies lose it bad if the situation shows itself.
Other instances where Twilight had to learn with trial and error has been during Winter Wrap Up episode, where ponies clear the leftover snow in the last day of Winter to open the way for Spring each year, and where no Magic, something Twilight is even an Element of, is not permitted to use. Twilight desperately sought to see where she could help to the point she broke in tears and his inside a bush until said opportunity opened to her and learned that she could be a part of the annual event even if it meant she would not exactly be physical part of it. We also learned she is very afraid of snakes along the episode. In Heart and Hooves day, the CMC bump into her as they try to find a way to get their beloved teacher a special somepony and ask for a book on the subject. Twilight, being the over enthusiastic pony she is when asked for help, does give them the means to be helped, then reaches in for another book thinking that she has a chance to be able to teach the young fillies about other things, only to find out that they had been long gone as she was looking for said book. In feeling Pinkie Keen, Twilight became very obsessed with Pinkie's supernatural way of predicting misfortune and getting hurt in the process. She at the end of the episode just simply had to accept that there are no easy ways to solve some problems and just go along with the flow.
In About Time, she had to confront what I believed the biggest challenge of all, herself. The episode on which her future self teleported in time to advise her in the past not to worry too much about things backfires when her own self gets highly excited about the theory of being able to use magic for temporal travel and not letting her other explain in detail what is what she is supposed to be prepared for until its too late to do anything but, as any other episode, get worried and make the problem bigger than what it would had seemed. You could surmise that when she realizes there was nothing to be worried about and have a chance to enjoy herself, she then teleports back in time in an attempt to warn herself in the past and the same thing happens as in the beginning of said episode. Twilight, being as highly intellectual as she is, is not very bright and this is one of the many reasons she is such a lovable character.
Perhaps one of the top reasons why she is so lovable as well, its the fact that Twilight Sparkle is a child at heart, as shown when the CMC ask her how she got her mark, and how even as a filly, she was very worried about learning and even getting panicky when things were not going as planned. Her overjoyed after being told she would be Celestia's personal student and earning her mark at the same day also transcends to her adult self, jumping in circles repeating the word yes over and over until she notices others are gathering around her in a moment of bashfulness.
Her innocence is one of the many things Twilight is gifted and one that fits her well, being that her past as a loner and a studious pony with a hunger for knowledge over anything else has never left her even in her current years.
One thing about Twilight Sparkle is her never say die attitude and her eagerness to help others, even if it means she has to put her lecture guards on as seen in the Episode Luna Eclipsed, where the lunar princess comes to Ponyville showing herself after a long first season of being absent when she was turned from being Nightmare Moon. If anything, one could also say that she would reach and try to help antagonists like Trixie who ran away into what seemed her first and only appearance. Of course, we would never know since Twilight appeared not to say anything else when the Great and Powerful escape took place, but then again, Spike sliding into the scene right after she left will never let us see if she did now do we?
If season 3 is indeed the last on the series, I would like to see more about this character's history and what may Lauren Faust had to omit earlier in favor of other characters who share the show. What else is in this Unicorn's mind that we are yet to know and love more of?
I can tell you that even if Twilight is not one of the top favorite characters, she will be one of the most missed in all the Generations of the MLP storyline. If she hadn't been created with such a rich myriad of qualities and the most impressive personality I EVER seen any character had throughout my life as an animation fan, then I would say she would be just another Mary Sue and probably hadn't bothered watching the show after the pilot episode anymore.
I do hope than by the time G5 comes into our lives, the reincarnation of Twilight Sparkle is created more or less with the same qualities we adore about the current generation. Of course that would not be happening, but if her name survives in future generations then it'll be the best honor she could ever had achieved during her times in G4.
And of course, her mental breakdown in Lesson Zero is just classic.
And I was also thinking of the bad animes that Bennet the Sage has reviewed in his Anime Abandon series.
Good grief, didn't know there were so many shitty animes.
And Hasbro can only mess it up when it runs out of ideas. Thats how most shows go in a downright spiral after a while.
Or "jump the shark"!!
That was horrible. Thats how I can see this ending with MLP.
The most intresting part I found with the time travel episode, is that the paradox it relys on, is the inverse of the paradox which current physisists (@.@) only account for, that of you cant have time travel because it causes paradox, where Twilight showed the inverse was also true, you can have time travel if Not having it causes a paradoz. In quantum Mechanics there is a simple rule, anything not forbidden, is manadatory.
With certain videos posted, it might be that Twilight, in the long run, is being classically trained for great things. However, given how intelligent and resourceful she is, I dont actually think theyll ever make Lesson Infinity, where she gets to learn Everything. As in being able to predict what Pinkie Pie is going to do next.
Would you even go near a massive lead bound steel cased book in the Vaults, with the title, Telenecroponicon?
The Equestrian Book on summoning and controlling demons, supernatural, the dead and for communing with the Eldar Gods. Sort of like Celestias mad old uncle. It eats the soul of the reader. 8)
Or, How to control the Universe, my notes, by, God.