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Liger Watch. MLP The Cutie Re-Mark. (Spoilers)
10 years ago
Well first of all no i"m not dead! XD Just had a bit of an art slump so bear with me guys. Hopefully I'll have something soon. In the meantime though I thought I'd share my thoughts on the MLP season close. Also wow big weekend for season endings. Walking Dead hit it's Mid-Season Finale too yesterday. But at any rate on with the ponies!
Well I have some mixed feelings about this episode. So lets break this into two parts. Likes and Dislikes.
Like
I loved getting to see all these alternate timelines come to pass and see these scenarios. The first one with the War with Sombra really reminded me of stuff from Equestria Prevails over on Deviant Art. It was also nice seeing Twilight use some guile trick Nightmare Moon into clearing the path back to the map for her. Though in that situation I would have loved to see something with Twilight making it through to Luna. Perhaps with her or Spike remarking on the fact that they rule together again rather than just saying they defeated her. To see Luna take hold for a moment or so. But that's my Luna fanboy talking. Loved the look of everything in the timeline with Zecora leading a guerrilla army effectively against the changelings.
Dislike
But I do have a few problems with this one. For one I have to ask where was Starlight Shimmer every time Twilight returned to the present? Surely she didn't remain in that same point in time but was recalled to a bit before Twilight's arrival every time. So shouldn't she have experienced for herself all those alternate futures and seen exactly how bad things would be? Even if she didn't return to the future via magic she would have lived through the intervening years between the Sonic RainBoom and the present.
I also didn't like how powerful she seemed to be in this episode. Considering all the magic she had at her disposal now how could she have been so easily defeated the last time? As for her backstory... that seems really weak. I mean really? She couldn't have kept in contact? Written letters, gone to visit him? And if they were best friends before surely he would have tried to keep in contact with her right? I mean he earned his Cutiemark protecting her? Also given how he earned said cutie mark why didn't she rush out to join the others being happy for him? At that point she had no reason to think he'd go away right?
Lastly her 11th hour redemption. I kind of hate that she does such a 180 and changes her mind and is all contrite at the end and then becomes friends with the mane six. This pony conspired to ruin their lives. She altered time without any considerations of the ramifications there of. Surely she'd have known the various near world ending catastrophes Twilight and her friends were responsible for stopping. She had to have known this wouldn't turn out good but did it anyway out of Spite! Her comment that SHE was happy in her village before Twilight and her friends came along kind of highlights something. SHE was happy. But was everyone else? It didn't look that way to me. They were walking on egg shells around her. She was a Tyrant. She said she wanted equality but that wasn't what she made. She made a place where everyone was the same because they were all under HER. She was the one in charge of the town. She was the one who'd taken their marks and do you really think it was voluntary for all of them? I doubt it. She violated them by stripping them of an essential part of themselves. And yet she's redeemed with little effort at the very end and even some of the old village accept her back. I don't like it. I don't think she deserves it.
Conclusion
While overall I did like this episode and the things it shows us buy and large I can't say I enjoy the possibility of things to come at the end there. What I mean is I hope StarLight Glimmer won't be a permanent addition to our main cast. Things get stretched thin for characters already without adding another redeemed villain who frankly wasn't a good one. That said I wouldn't be against seeing her now and again and seeing a steady change in her with maybe two or so eps with her but we don't need more than that. I mean there's a lot of far better ponies, and a dragon, who deserve some more attention I think.
But what do you guys think? Did you Enjoy the season Finale? What's your thoughts on StarLight Glimmber? And Which was your fav Alternate timeline shown?
Well I have some mixed feelings about this episode. So lets break this into two parts. Likes and Dislikes.
Like
I loved getting to see all these alternate timelines come to pass and see these scenarios. The first one with the War with Sombra really reminded me of stuff from Equestria Prevails over on Deviant Art. It was also nice seeing Twilight use some guile trick Nightmare Moon into clearing the path back to the map for her. Though in that situation I would have loved to see something with Twilight making it through to Luna. Perhaps with her or Spike remarking on the fact that they rule together again rather than just saying they defeated her. To see Luna take hold for a moment or so. But that's my Luna fanboy talking. Loved the look of everything in the timeline with Zecora leading a guerrilla army effectively against the changelings.
Dislike
But I do have a few problems with this one. For one I have to ask where was Starlight Shimmer every time Twilight returned to the present? Surely she didn't remain in that same point in time but was recalled to a bit before Twilight's arrival every time. So shouldn't she have experienced for herself all those alternate futures and seen exactly how bad things would be? Even if she didn't return to the future via magic she would have lived through the intervening years between the Sonic RainBoom and the present.
I also didn't like how powerful she seemed to be in this episode. Considering all the magic she had at her disposal now how could she have been so easily defeated the last time? As for her backstory... that seems really weak. I mean really? She couldn't have kept in contact? Written letters, gone to visit him? And if they were best friends before surely he would have tried to keep in contact with her right? I mean he earned his Cutiemark protecting her? Also given how he earned said cutie mark why didn't she rush out to join the others being happy for him? At that point she had no reason to think he'd go away right?
Lastly her 11th hour redemption. I kind of hate that she does such a 180 and changes her mind and is all contrite at the end and then becomes friends with the mane six. This pony conspired to ruin their lives. She altered time without any considerations of the ramifications there of. Surely she'd have known the various near world ending catastrophes Twilight and her friends were responsible for stopping. She had to have known this wouldn't turn out good but did it anyway out of Spite! Her comment that SHE was happy in her village before Twilight and her friends came along kind of highlights something. SHE was happy. But was everyone else? It didn't look that way to me. They were walking on egg shells around her. She was a Tyrant. She said she wanted equality but that wasn't what she made. She made a place where everyone was the same because they were all under HER. She was the one in charge of the town. She was the one who'd taken their marks and do you really think it was voluntary for all of them? I doubt it. She violated them by stripping them of an essential part of themselves. And yet she's redeemed with little effort at the very end and even some of the old village accept her back. I don't like it. I don't think she deserves it.
Conclusion
While overall I did like this episode and the things it shows us buy and large I can't say I enjoy the possibility of things to come at the end there. What I mean is I hope StarLight Glimmer won't be a permanent addition to our main cast. Things get stretched thin for characters already without adding another redeemed villain who frankly wasn't a good one. That said I wouldn't be against seeing her now and again and seeing a steady change in her with maybe two or so eps with her but we don't need more than that. I mean there's a lot of far better ponies, and a dragon, who deserve some more attention I think.
But what do you guys think? Did you Enjoy the season Finale? What's your thoughts on StarLight Glimmber? And Which was your fav Alternate timeline shown?
Common factor for all of these antagonists, each and every one were forgiven.
Comparatively, Starlight probably ranks somewhere between Sunset and Luna. We have no indication any of the ponies in the village had their cutie marks stolen forcibly. The ponies of Our Town, brainwashed though they may have been, seemed perfectly (if disturbingly) happy there in what they perceived to be a utopia. Her obvious harm came when she stole the marks of the Mane 6 and then did the whole soundtrack-torture thing and then ran off when she was caught. When she showed up again, her potential for harm was immense. But since she backed down, nopony even remembered the events so aside from possibly PTSD for Twilight and Spike (who seemed alright by the end of the episode) there was no actual harm done during her second appearance. Her being forgiven by the Princess of Friendship and four ponies who learned real friendship from her when compared to the others really doesn't surprise me.
That said, I would be glad not to see more of her. I think her arc is finished. It was a surprise to see Coco and Gilda this season as it is so I think we'll see somepony like Lightning Dust again before we get back to her.