Would Twilight be willing to have extended an olive branch to the pony out to annihilate the changeling progeny?
I’m thinking… no, she wouldn’t. It was a blatant cheap shot done in an attempt to give Chrysalis sympathy she doesn’t actually deserve for her actions, by placing the catalyst for her doing it on someone else, as usual, more or less. What drove those ShitheadsTM into being the types to do this? Who cares? It’s just easier to cast them as one-dimensional rather than incorporate nuance into the equation.
To be fair, the show itself has troubles with giving all six ponies a meaningful role in ensemble episodes (and the 2017 movie)
You’re not wrong, but to me, it doesn’t make sense to have all six of them involved in the
wish fulfillment properly developed redemption arcs of those three, and then leave the talking to the Princesses when they’re talking about banishing them to an empty world, as if they weren’t even
there before that page. Why wouldn’t they at
least be moving to stand protectively in front of them, or something, when they’re talking about punishing them?
Because it just doesn’t make them look pitiable enough, the way something like that would alternatively be framed?
Would be no surprise if the author did something like that.