@Chuy-kun
Friendship games didn’t help the fandom’s view of EQG– to be honest, it hurt it. Rainbow rocks may have picked it up, but FG frittered it away. Luckily, LOE seems to be a return to RR given excitement and fan reaction so far.

1. Starlight’s horrible mishandling is mentioned in many places across the fandom, not just discussions about Sunset. She’s been rewritten and self-inserted without the effort into the group between S5 and S6, some of the worst things you can do in writing in general. You can say that Starlight isn’t anyone’s replacement, but you saying that doesn’t mean anything to most others. The comparisons and surplus of same ideas are still there for EVERYONE to see, and the majority of people acknowledge that. And it doesn’t matter if one of them was briefly written before the other or simultaneous, its quite obviously the same ‘character attempt’ was done for both of them but with Starlight its completely half-assed.
    
2. The fact that all the movies have been EG so far is irrelevant, the show and the movies have the same viewers. Advertisement for one is advertisement for the other. Whether it be for show or for movies, they are creating material for MLP:FiM and that’s the end of it. The method they have chosen so far is to keep show mostly separate from EG since they aren’t ready escalate the show beyond 2 partners yet. Emphasis on yet. When they release the 2017 movie it won’t be IN the series or called EG either, but there’s absolutely nothing stopping it from containing both continuities.
    
   3)When a story creates two characters with very similar to near identical storylines, one character horribly written and one character superbly written, its only natural when the badly written one is over-emphasized and it doesn’t work, people will mention the well written one since she is the character that would work. Likewise, when the well-written character is under-emphasized while the badly written is being over-emphasized, the same effect will happen because the watchers don’t like watching horrible stuff. Its not saltiness at all, its extremely basic and understandable common sense. And while what is ‘superb’ and what is ‘horrible’ and what is ‘half-assed’ can be quite subjective, the majority of the fandom like Sunset way more then Starlight, and you don’t need a flow chart to figure that out.
    
    
   @Background Pony #AA9F  
   Couldn’t agree more. So much movie level stuff has happened with Sunset during post S4 that the EG movies seem to be more relevant impact on the overall lore of Equestria and the Elements of Harmony and seriousness of the material, then a lot of the recent show.