Copper Knight

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Plus they weren’t “depowered” in the sense of losing all magic but brought back to base. Chrysalis can still transform, Cozy can still manipulate, and Tirek can still steal magic.
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They could have just imprisoned them more properly honestly…their main prisoning method for high level threats appears to be for some unfathomable reason…get them in Tartarus and never check in on them.  
Which is the good guy equivalent of when the bad guy leaves the hero to die but never actually makes sure he dies except in this case they can do it for years or months
 
 
Like quick question if Discord didn’t outright tell them he let Cozy and Tirek out would they ever find out without the two actually doing something
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@ma3a  
Beyond getting the bell? It showed that even when there’s a chance for them to get proper friendship, they reject it. They don’t want it. As Chrysalis said, they consider it a “disease”.
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@Smart Heart
They were already neutralized as a threat.
 
Not really. They may be depowered, but if let go, they could always just find a way to gather more power, and try to take over Equestria again. Heck, Chrysalis even said they were going to do it. Imprisoning them in stone was likely the best way to keep that from happening.
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@Zenitheus  
Smarter writing could have used that as evidence she was actively afraid of the physical change her hive went through, her seeing as it as some kind of rainbow-colored corruption she had to to avoid.
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@ma3a  
No worries, at least by their present state it is totally fair to assume that they WILL come back sooner or later. Personally, I can’t wait to see Chrysalis in future generations.
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what is the point of this episode now? they set up this big foreshadowing of some redemption arc for chrysalis but then pulled the rug out from under us in an example of LAZY storywriting
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@rannius  
Yeah, I wouldn’t have a problem with these three being turned to stone if their reformation wasn’t “forshadowed” like this.
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@Smart Heart  
I don’t get it either.
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@rannius  
You know what’s really sad? The fact that those two episodes are written by the EXACT SAME yayING PERSON!!
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Frenemies as a whole was completely pointless. It was the first episode to really set up a reformation as a logical outcome.  
Then TEotE came along and fucked it up.
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@Zenitheus  
I agree. It’s like shooting down a defenseless terrorist who lost all his weapons, contact with reinforcements, his arms, and his legs. And that’s after the terrorist had been suspended from duty and had willingly surrendered.
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@Smart Heart  
I mean, all things considered, she had first hand experience with the magic of friendship when she witnessed her people side with Starlight and Thorax. It took a heavy toll on her, so of course she’d be the first one to call it out in her group. As for Cozy Glow and Tirek they were never scared of Chrysalis, rather they expressed surprise at her big no and then agreed with Chrysalis. Their tone had hints of denial in their voice and their dialogue was along the lines of “Oh, well, of course were not going to be friends…. None of us would be so foolish as to do that.”
 
Still, I’m not in favor of stoning any of the trio regardless of what they did beforehand. They were already depowered by the friendship rainbow and pinned down by a giant cupcake. They were already neutralized as a threat.
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So she was right to convince them to stay evil?
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@Smart Heart  
No, she really isn’t.
 
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@superfun  
Either way, Chrysalis is a toxic influence on the two of them.
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@Smart Heart  
Eh, it came across to me that they felt the same way. Chrysalis just said it first.
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They gave us two episodes about these three villains being together like a dysfunctional family and having development and they dont expect us to feel bad for them?
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@Smart Heart  
Are you really trying to stretch events that far?
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@superfun  
No. Chrysalis was the one who rejected it. Cozy and Tirek had faces that “Let’s play along with her to stay on her good side.”
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Nope.
 
The purpose of this scene was to show that yes, they did consider reformation, and rejected it.
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@Ganondox  
Sad, but true.
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Wouldn’t have been pointless if it wasn’t the for WTF finale.
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@Chrysipuff  
Something the writers are quite incapable of.