@Vinyl Fluff  

 
Oh Thank God.

@Background Pony #DD10  

 
No, we’ve already got confirmation that S7 is in production.
 
He meant it as “You know there’s still the rest of THIS season, right?” He literally says it as the next line. He’s implying she’s got more episodes in THIS season.

That “next season?” give me the vibe that this season will be the last one

@Mr. Horrible  
If it’s for a main character transition during this season’s time, I feel they do need to hurry it up in their efforts (and I don’t mean that in a ‘rush it’ sense). People are just going to call foul, if it simply comes out of nowhere… again. She’s stretched many people’s suspension of disbelief enough as it is.

people have bipolar disorder or some shit?

Better a recurring character rather than a character that’s forgotten about. Hopefully we get some more great stuff from her. Last episode personally felt empty without her, but that’s just me.

@Mr grump  
But that lack of direction is, in itself, a direction. She said it herself, that’s she’s found herself at a point in her life where she has to relearn everything she ever thought she knew. She’d dedicated her entire life to eradicating cutie marks and enslaving the world, and now that she’s seen the error of her ways she has to start from scratch to discover who she is. She’s searching for a way to escape her past and find something to live for now that her life’s work has been destroyed.
 
And besides, her story’s only just beginning. You mentioned Rarity’s multiple boutiques as an example, but that didn’t even start happening until 5 seasons in. Give it time to actually happen before you write the entire thing off.

@Mr. Horrible  
Yes, she has her friendship lessons but so far thats all she has. She needs a goal or interests in life outside of her lessons that have nothing to do with her past so her character can branch out in differant directions. Variety is the spice of life And Starlight is in desperate need of some extra layers. She could just do everything that Twilight has already done but how boring.
 
Applejack had her farm and family.  
Rainbow dash had her goal to be a wonderbolt but she also love sport and pranks.  
Rarity is extremly motivated by ambition and a genuine love of fashion, hence her expanding boutique empire.
 
Trixie is so popular because people love a character who wants something and is very self motivated.  
Starlight needs some of that mojo. A hobby or an interest outside of and separate to her friendship training.

@Anon-a-Miss  
Three episodes besides the Crystalling? Huh? Spice Up Your Life doesn’t count, the episode wasn’t about her at all. And even Hearth’s Warming Eve spent more time on a story within a story then on Starlight herself. Only No Second Prances was mostly about her, and even then she shared the spotlight with fan-favorite Trixie.

@Hateot  
Actually, they already do have the beginnings of a new direction for Starlight in the works, and it’s all tied into those friendship lessons. So far, we’ve seen Starlight learning the true meaning and value of friendship, stressing herself out over the possibility of disappointing her mentor, and working through her own insecurities and naivete to emerge a wiser and more socially comfortable person.
 
In short, Starlight is taking over all of the things that Twilight used to do pre-alicornication that have since fallen by the wayside. Except with Starlight we see those things as filtered through the eyes of a former villain trying to turn her life around. If they continue with how they’ve been handling Starlight, she could prove to be an excellent opportunity to bring back some of the earliest facets of FiM that people loved in the first seasons while still pushing ahead into new territory.

@Anon-a-Miss  
I don’t know, I feel like that’s still a huge if at this stage, though. I feel like they still have much work infront of them to make something like that work.  
Wall of text alert.
 
Next opinion is heavily based on Mr grump’s thoughts from another thread: Now that she’s turned “good” she no longer seems to have a clear chatacter archetype, hobby or goal in life that would make her easy to write or pinpoint what direction they are going with her, if they choose to develop her. Like Discord, she kind of just… is there. I mean, she has her friendship lessons, but it’s really hard to make out what the end goal with them is supposed to be, it really feels more like a psychiatric rehab more than anything.  
Another thing is integrating her to the group, which we haven’t seen much of… even though we are told she’s supposed to be living with Twilight, she seems to be just absent all the time.
 
I do however agree with Mr grump that making her Trixie’s assistant gives her this chance to be a more rounded character along the way, even if I personally didn’t like most of the things about the episode itself.
 
TL;DR So, what I meant to say is, I don’t personally feel like they’ve been preping her enough for a transition like that. The other option that currently seems just as likely would be to handle her like they did Discord and have her apear for her own spotlight episodes each season after this one.
 
Still, they do have atleast one focus episode for her coming up, so they have a chance yet to figure things out with her, and I do hope they manage to do that. I don’t want her to be just forgotten come next season.

Starlight had three episodes this season and played an important role in “The Crystaling”. Not many supporting characters get their own episodes. Even fewer get several episodes. That makes her an important member of the supporting cast. She isn’t a part of the Mane Six yet, but out of all characters she’s the most likely candidate for a Mane Seven. If the show continues after Season Six and Starlight don’t leave Ponyville that’s most likely outcome for her.

Well, someone had to point that out….

@Mr. Horrible  
The CMC perhaps, depending how you count them not appearing in episodes as a group, but I’d say she has nowhere near the amount of screentime Spike’s had this season.

Starlight’s been appearing at about the same frequency as Spike or the CMC have this season. For a secondary main character like her, that seems like a pretty reasonable amount of screentime.
 
Of course, I would never say no to getting even more GlimGlam, but I think she’s had ample amount of representation.

@Background Pony #3BEC  

 
You see the screenshot above? Some people assume she was a part of the mane 6 already. And the way they ended season 5 and all the previews of season 6 made it look like she was indeed a permanent member of the group.

@thatguy  
Correct, she has one more appearance than him.

3 focus episodes and half the focus of the season premiere and probably the finale in one season is a big much for a mere “recurring character.” Not even Discord got that much attention.

More than fine with this. That was my one caveat to being okay with her rushed reformation at the end of the last season, that if she was going to be kept around, she would be a secondary character, not a main character. And I don’t expect secondary characters to show up any more often than Discord, Celestia or Luna do. If you want her to cameo in the periphery of episodes, you want her to be a background character, because that’s their purpose.

IM not freaking expecting for her to be main char. in every episode…but i at least expect her to be in the backround in few episodes…like the last one

She’s confirmed to have five (plot relevant) appearances this season and possibly two more if she’s in the finale, that’s only one more than Discord had on season 4, so I thought this was obvious.
 
It’s like she doesn’t even live in Ponyville.

@Background Pony #3BEC
 
she’s not main character but you would expect her to be in the backround from time to time eh ? i mean she IS A TWLIGHT STUDENT !!!

what a bullshit ! she lives in the castle in ponyville and she isn’t even in the backround !?…WHAT THE FUCK!!

@Vinyl Fluff  
How could anyone think she’s a main character when she has less screentime than some other characters who aren’t main characters?