And your dog!
 
…wait, never mind, Spike wasn’t there

@CronoM  
Gee, I haven’t put much thought into it.
 
But it seems more like destiny is becoming a thing to cope with rather than embrace.
 
Which is interesting given all that’s transpired in the series so far.

@PonyPon  
Just wanted your thoughts on it. Although to put it into a question…
 
The theme for the show for a while now is that good fortune would happen to good people so long as they follow their destiny. That was the theme surrounding the show for a while now, until Rainbow Rocks came along and introduced a more consequence-based storytelling. And now they are releasing episodes where people find problems in their cutie marks, and even have a CMC episode where Applebloom gets a good cutie mark in her dreams, its discarded, and the CMC talk with Luna about how worthless cutie marks/slash destiny are.
 
Like the people who believed in Amon’s policies, the actual philosophies behind why they all gave up their cutie marks weren’t actually altered for most of the ponies in the premier, even though they dropped their allegiance of that side temporarily because their current way was ‘sort of’ under a lie. And as a result, Starlight’s story wasn’t ‘wrapped up’, is still free with her brand of philosophy, and next time it might not be so cut and dry as ‘defeat the villain’.
 
Her extreme methods and extreme philosophy was wrong, but what she was opposing wasn’t perfectly right either, and now destiny is being villainized as well in the show. (Very similar to how the Dazzling’s first song was practically truthful about needed ambition in the world. (shiver) That lyrics of that song were sort of creepy in that respect)  
So the question is…
 
Do you think the writers trying to change the theme of the show into one choice-and-consequence-driven similar to Rainbow Rocks?
 
Cause its only been several episodes into S5 right now, and they’ve already introduced several episodes where cutie marks and destiny are more of an issue and/or problem that simply needs to be dealt with. Very, very different then in earlier seasons where cutie marks, being a wonderbolt or princesshood, was a destiny dangled in front of their future they felt they needed to obtain to be happy.

@CronoM  
Not sure what you’re asking.

@PonyPon  
Basically, yeah. Its kind of a cult leader deal.
 
To be quite honest, I’m not sure why the reveal that she still had her own was a big deal. According to them, the townspeople all volunteered to join her community and be equal. So long as she wasn’t flaunting it, she was still giving them exactly what they wanted. With Amon, the issue of power-abuse within the city was a driving force, and with his own bending, his power could be abused for enforcement. In an isolated community of ponies who joined willingly…not so much.
 
The far bigger deal were the 3 ponies who weren’t allowed their cutie marks back….and of course, when Starlight went of the deep end and took dignitaries’ cutie marks against their free will, that was even bigger. That was less ‘messing with the natural order’ and more along the lines of ‘villainy and criminal activity’.
 
I’m not saying that they shouldn’t have interfered at all anyways, but the fact that some ponies didn’t have a choice if they didn’t like the equalization euphoria was far more of a moral concern then Starlight giving them that euphoria willingly while maintaining the community.
 
Maybe I’m thinking about this too much, but since it WAS a premier and she did escape, I feel like its worth being addressed. choice not even being the main issue for the other ponies was very odd. Consistent with the show morals recently, but still odd. What do you think Ponypon?

for some reason I want to see Twilight dressed as the Flash fighting Starlight who is dressed as the Reverse Flash/Professor Zoom.

@Ichijoe  
Good idea, I may change it.

Actually I’d love to see a Starlight Glimmer x The Sibyl System (Psycho Pass), if anything it would prove that most Ponies would prefer to live like that.

*Meddling (Celestia I hate touchscreen Keyboards.  
@BP#9A54: Starlight Glimmer is Princess Celestia!

Medfling foals… Would have read better.

@Ilsor  
Equality apparently still requires leadership.

How was the entire town okay with her being in charge  
If everyone was supposed to be equal?

Not sure she was doing anything good for these ponies when she was basically lying to them about how she kept her mark hidden and took all of theirs basically robbing them of their individually.

Twilight: You stole a part of their souls, Starlight. Their Cutie Marks were a part of their personality. Take them away, and they can’t even think straight. The others can confirm this for me.
 
Rainbow Dash: We had our cutie marks switched. Felt like we were doing each others’ job…badly.

And now to reveal who Starlight Glimmer really is.

Scooby-dooby-doo!

The emotional impact of the tears really don’t match with the cheesy scooby doo line. :/