@TexasUberAlles
I actually liked the idea that Celestia was always the one to be Spike’s motherly figure, because for one thing, Celestia initiated practically everything, she obviously had some sort of plan and it also ties in with the actual motive behind acquiring a dragon egg in the first place.
As for the nobles, there is a very simple solution to that, Spike is under protection of Celestia herself, simple. Would anyone object the ruler that has kept a kingdom safe for thousands of years? it’s also not really that much outraging she would protect a small baby dragon from being burned at the stake by society, for one thing, that would imply not allowing her own followers to act like barbarians.
as for Sombra, I honestly hope they don’t bring him back. I know things can be done, but trying to salvage him seems like a waste of time right now for both him and the show as a whole.
I think they’d have better chances at just writing a new villain all together, instead of digging up the remains of Sombra, bringing him back, complicating the story more in order to either keep him from coming back, or having him come back again for some ridiculous reason..
For one thing, the story of Crystal Empire is so god damn precise it’s almost laughable in how ridiculous it all is.. The magic artifact has only ONE property and purpose of existence, to destroy Sombra Specifically.
Second, much like season 2’s premier was Discord’s one and only moment to either make it big, or just fall into obscurity slowly, so was season 3’s premier the one moment for Sombra’s character to be fully established. They failed, it sucks, they should accept that Sombra didn’t work and not convolute the story anymore than they have.
If they decide to bring back Sombra, for their own sakes, I only hope they have something else for him to do than what he should have been doing in season 3, only to be defeated yet again.