Don’t worry, as they’ll get another unicorn to replace her…but not the one we ultimately wanted.

@The Smiling Pony  
i’ll definitely be watching it for the plot ;3

WORD

I agree with OP

It’s bad because she’s already a defacto princess thanks to her brother she dosnt need to be an alicorn because then she fucks up the balance of the main 6 from 2 2 2 to 2 2 1 and 1 really oped one

@The Smiling Pony
 
Your first 4 points, I can understand, even though I may not necessarily agree with them.
 
I’ll continue to be non-partisan until the episode airs, so I can judge for myself whether they did the concept of alicorn twilight justice

My issues:
 
1. I like nerdy Twilight. I’m not sure you can be a god-princess and a socially awkward bookworm at the same time, so it would feel like losing an important part of the character.
 
2. Group dynamics. I have no idea how they’re going to have a cast that contains both a permanently poor farmer and a member of royalty.
 
3. Race = royalty. Making Twilight a princess, OK. Making her an alicorn, OK. Making her both has some odd racial connotations I’m not very comfortable with.
 
4. Delivery. We’ve been told this will be a one-episode finale. Unless the fabled 66 minute movie TopDraw let slip happens to be that finale episode (which wouldn’t mix with their previous order of 13 episodes), then it’s going to seem a bit rushed to have an episode where the major character becomes an alicorn, then becomes a princess, while still having an actual plot to watch.
 
5. Synopsis so far lacks Trixie.

@EQUINE_excite
 
Couldn’t have said it better myself. The only concessions I would make to the anti-twicorn camp are the following: Making her a princess, and the timescale in which it is happening (i.e. is it too soon in the show’s story to engage a somewhat major paradigm shift)

People love to be in panic.  
Just remember what Pinkie said: “Sometimes it’s just really fun being scared!”  
I can’t wait for this shit to die off already..

How about everyone stop being so damn hostile towards eachother?

@Background Pony  
If something smells like shit and looks like shit, wouldn’t it be safe to assume that it tastes like shit too?  
Of course there is a small chance that it might actually be good, or at least not bad, but it’s such a small chance I can’t really afford to place any faith on it

@Lyroy Have you watched the episode yet?Have you watched any of season 4’s episodes?
 
If you haven’t please have a cup of shut the fuck up.

@Background Pony  
You know they won’t let that stick though. Lauren influenced the writing staff a bit too much I’d reckon. They’d find a way to give her a reason to turn it down and make another lesson out of it before the next season is done.

@Kamazeustra  
>She isn’t an alicorn in the season 4 promo material.  
[citation needed]

@greaterlimits  
Yeah, and Lauren Faust herself is in that 5-10% of people.  
If you need to give amazing superpowers and high privileges to a character to make her “interesting”, don’t ever try to write something, because it will be a total blunder.
 
The GOOD part about this show was that you could feel identified with some of the characters. Now with a fucking royal princess main character you can’t. From now on the series will be “My Little Princess: Twilight Sparkle (and those other horses)”

/\ My toughts exactly.

Okay, it’s not so much that she becomes an alicorn— it’s that she becomes a PRINCESS.  
One of the central themes of the show is that there’s more than one way to be a girl, that girls can be happy and successful and accomplished as nerds or jocks, farm girls or fashionistas… but if they do coronate Twilight, it’s being implied that the greatest achievement any girl can hope for is– to have someone wave a magic wand and make them a pretty pretty princess. A devolution to the trite, pastel-pink vapidness that the show fought so hard to avoid in the first place.
 
Second, if Twilight does become a princess, it flushes the whole dynamic of the series. The whole SHOW was about Twilight coming down out of her tower and learning the value of friends– and now they’re going to stick a crown on her head and put her back up there. Making her royalty– immortal royalty, no less– would make an impossible (and blatantly obvious) gap between her and her mortal, commoner friends.
 
And let’s face it, you can’t do middle-class slice of life stories with your main protagonist sitting on a throne.
 
We’ve all read the fanfics– hundreds of them– where Twilight becomes an alicorn. Regardless of the author, narrative causality inevitably takes it down some DAMN bleak corridors. It would take excellent writers to avoid the unhappy implications of one of the mane six ascending to immortal royalty, and frankly they don’t have any writers that good.
 
It quite bluntly looks like the sort of thing you do to a character before putting them on a bus…

Hasbro aren’t going to change this and it IS permanent.
 
Hasbros not going to spend that kind of money and then reverse it at the whim of a small minority of vocal bronies.
 
Most bronies are ok with this, some love it. like 5-10% of the loud whiny ones have a problem with it… problem is they talk 98% of the time.

I’ll be as stupid as I damn well please!
 
No, seriously, I don’t see the problem. The alicorn thing isn’t going to last past the finale. She isn’t an alicorn in the season 4 promo material.

You’re insulting people just for having an opinion, you realize that, right? Right?

@Fipse  
Agreed. By powers, I simply mean implied powers inherent to the change in form, such as flight. Ask yourself, if Twilight grows wings, why wouldn’t she go to Rainbow for flight lessons?

@Background Pony
 
And why do people assume she will gain new powers? She is already pretty powerful in magic, i guess more powerful then Cadence (besides her love power). So she would just have a set of wings and will probably still improve her magic through studying.

What I don’t get is why people assume Twilight will know how to use her powers straight away once she becomes an alicorn. She’s smart, yes, but book smart. Don’t you think she would ask her friends for help?

@Dr. Robotnik  
I trust the writers, mostly Larson tho, but I don’t trust Hasbro so much.  
But I guess the writers get to polish out Hasbro’s demands for them, so they can make it better.

@sixtyfour215
 
Yeah, I’m okay with permanent and temporary both, personally. Either way, the show has awesome writers that so far have yet to make anything that was truly shit, so I haven’t got a single worry in the world about the episode.