Are all the qualms you have with this scene the fault of the writers exclusively? Maybe the script said that the villains were overwhelmed by the number of attackers and the storyboard artists and animators came up with this?

I dunno. This reminds me of a person being swarmed by bees.

That’s very rude. How about don’t insult other people’s intelligence just because you disagree with them?

I know, right? It’s amazing that the show has lasted this long, has such a huge fanbase of people from all walks of life (all genders, children, teens, and adults), and didn’t resort to treating children (its main target audience) like idiots.

Dude. This show isn’t really known for good ways of thwarting villains. Even in the earlier seasons, they pulled some serious plot-armor BS via the power of love or friendship (with or without the aid of a special magical Maguffin) to defeat the baddies.

It’s a scene that is the last hurrah of the series. The show is called Friendship is Magic, right? The show revolves around that as its theme. This scene depicts a whole bunch of friends and allies the main cast has made during the course of the series. All of them uniting together to help defeat a common enemy.

I wouldn’t need to think of the “smartest” tactic. It’s literally basic logic which most creatures possess, except for when writers don’t know what they are doing.

“I have wings and ground is dangerous.” > “I need to fly up.” (Pigeons and sparrows know this. Or are you trying to tell me that Chrysalis is dumber than a common bird? That’s rich.)

“I have many weak enemies.” > “I need to use something to hit an area or quick attacks.” (A bit more advanced than basic animal instincts I guess)

Style over substance which we can clearly see here isn’t always a bad thing, but only if there’s at least some basic substance to be offered behind all the flashy effects. It doesn’t have to be something overly complex, really. But it has to work which takes a bit of talent and effort.

Personally, I can’t enjoy the scene which insults basic intelligence for the sake of delivering rather thinly veiled ideas and morals which could be done so much better with a bit of effort. Maybe, you aren’t as overburdened with knowledge and memories as others are, and you don’t see it as an issue.

Faust had created FIM exactly because she saw that cartoons were becoming dumber and dumber, and she wanted to change it.

Now, look what we have come to years later.

And remember, victory over the villain(s) only tastes good if the villain presented a worthy challenge to the hero(es). What sort of world-scale threat and challenge can one speak of, if your biggest and baddest evildoers are being twarted by a dozen of random nobodies? No matter how well-coordinated. That’s another point for ya.

And as a final bit, riddle me this. You tell people to “enjoy the scene for what it is.” But what is this scene? Besides poorly choreographed action, of course.