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I still think Starlight’s redemption was great, even if it needed a few rewrites. It’s mostly due to her and Discord’s being the few where they willing gave up victory when they realized that the path they were going isn’t where they want to be, and chose to lose instead of ending up in a place that’s worst for them.
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I’ve actually heard that it was just a single soccer mom. Hasbro received ONE letter from ONE soccer mom and decided to censor The Last Roundup in response.
 
That’s just what I’ve heard anyway, but it seems perfectly believable. After all, Hasbro kicked Coco Pommel to the curb out of fear of being sued by Chanel, despite the fact that basing a fictional character’s name on a celebrity name is perfectly legal and if any lawsuit did occur, the courts would have undoubtedly ruled in Hasbro’s favor (especially given that Coco Chanel died a long time ago).
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@Meanlucario
 
Magical friendship lasers instantly redeeming them are inferior to actually talking them down.
 
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I think Chrysalis would’ve been a much less… impactful villain, if S6 ended differently, while we’re on the topic of villains and former villains. The show 100% made the right call with her.
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@AC97  
Really, the friendship laser approach was only ever taken on the starter villains - Nightmare Moon and Sunset Shimmer. And in both cases, they had to struggle with their own issues later.
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@Meanlucario
 
I meant, if she actually reformed in S6’s To Where and Back Again, when Starlight offered her a hoof, instead of what actually happened in canon, then she would’ve been a lesser villain, and character.
 
Less compelling if she were redeemable, in my eyes.
AC97
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I think Discord’s plan in S9 was a natural development of his character, in multiple ways, especially given who he’s an expy of. The flaws that were in his line of thinking are definitely not anything new (arrogance, complacency in his power).
 
He’s kinda been a trickster mentor since S4, before S9, and it’s been apparent as recently as S7’s premiere, regarding Twilight, only now he unambiguously cared about Twilight being strong.
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@AC97  
In terms of lessons to teach, I do think it’s an important lesson that you can’t always change people or make them like you or make things right with them. Some people just don’t want to be your friend, and some people are going to hate you, and sometimes there’s really nothing you can do about it :D
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@AC97  
You can pretty much see the whole thing as a direct upscale of his plan in Best Gift Ever - he unleashed a horrifiyng monster on everyone, his friend solved it with her unique skills, and everyone was happy!
 
 
@Badumsquish  
And sometimes it’s your fault… I really wish they’d done a Starlight Our Town episode…
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That’s kinda where things get weird in trying to criticize him. What he did was 100% in character. And the plot waste no time or opportunity saying that it was a bad idea. But with all that in mind, does it make it a bad idea out of story?
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@GenericArchangel  
It effectively does with all the villains who never got redeemed. Even Flim and Flam, in a real roundabout way, teaches that just because people don’t get along with you or have a quarrel with you doesn’t mean they’re bad people :D
 
@Latecomer  
Admittedly though the show’s not had the best track record with that kind of thing. Typically the characters who oppose the protagonists are “the bad guys”, even when it was the protagonists who were in the wrong or started the fight or when the bad guys are “bad” for doing things the protagonists also do. Probably the writers weren’t allowed to get that deep with conflicts, like they probably had to clearly have “these characters are good and these characters are bad” kind of characterizations so they never really went down that road :D
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@Badumsquish  
The show could easily do a thing where they just don’t like someone. In fact, Mudbriar was a good start, although that episode had a slightly different message. Starlight vs Mudbriar would be how I do it.
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