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I do not know why. But I have the feeling that this changeling is going to be a grumpy character like lary the substitute mascot of spongebob
I try not to swear too much… but fuck “Friends Are Always There For You”. It’s only there because they might have been cancelled, it’s as legit as Twilight’s Flyby at the end of mystery cure.
With that, Starlight was not any more redeemed in Cutie Remark than Sunset was in Equestria Girls. Season 6 and Rainbow Rocks serve the same purpose, Starlight’s real redemption episode was “To Where and Back Again”.
And Starlight didn’t bring Sunburst to them actually. She just mentioned the full details of the problem, and Sunburst realized he could help. You’re really stretching to think she was in any way the hero of that episode, Pinkie Pie was more directly useful to resolving the central plot.
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@Prof.NightJack
But who knew about Sunburst and brought him to them? Out of everyone in that episode, only the princesses, Starlight and Sunburst actually did something that wasn’t getting into contrivances that just made them useless.
And I dunno, every other villains backstories were either simple but effective or more complex, plus the only bigger villain redeemed was Discord which I had no mayor issues… Starlight had the big flaw of being redeemed in the exact same episode she played the Big Bad and where we saw all the harm caused by her pettiness. With Discord it took a season and a half before his forgiveness, Sunset went through a whole movie trying to earn it, and Glimglam got it in the same episode we saw her causing a war, having Equestria ruled by changelings, under the tyranny of Nightmare Moon… You get the idea.
Wasn’t that Sunburst who solved the problem in Crystaling?
And if a weak backstory and instant villain redemption angered me that much, I would have never made it past season 4.
“until only Starlight happened to know how to fix an easy issue”
She didn’t actully, she had to get Sunburst to figure it out.
The Cutie Map wasn’t written or edited by Josh Haber, thought, and yes I do love that episode. The Crystalling however had them just dropping the ball every single time until only Starlight happened to know how to fix an easy issue and felt really contrived. As for Cutie Remark… that resolution. Those last final seven or five minutes killed the episode in its entirety.
Meghan is hardly innocent of dropping the IQ’s of the mane six through the floor, and he actually used them better too. Fluttershy was the biggest mane 6 hero of Cutie Map, and the Crystaling and and Cutie Remark gave them far more screen time and dialogue than Twilight’s Kingdom or Canterlot Wedding.
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It’s true Josh had Celestia do stuff in the Season opener and finale… but at the cost of now making the Mane 6 act like idiots for no reason other than “Make Starlight Look Strong”, which is why I have so many grudges against Season 6.
No, really. Meghan has Celestia act like an idiot and gets her beaten up at the earliest opportunity, where as Josh always gives her something to do. This was the two parter where she did the least, and she still got to deliver the denouncement at least.
And you know what? I was getting sick of every two parter being about Twilight, so I didn’t mind her taking the back seat for once.
Now if the next finale gave someone who wasn’t horned and purple a chance to shine, even better.
I am. What’s wrong with being different?
That’s not funny.
Just saying.
Celestia beat her to it.
…you know what? I’m pretty sure Josh Haber really likes Celestia. She always gets something to do, and the one time he did worf her, he gave her plenty of company.
They could have at least have Twilight Congratulate Starlight for saving the day. Well, at least that happened in Celestial Advice, which seemed like a proper conclusion.
For once Twilight wasn’t important to the episode. It was pretty much a ‘lower deck episode’, entirely focused on secondary characters (which Discord points out).
And yeah, it felt a little rushed, but that’s a perpetual problem with MLP. I have had issues with the pacing of pretty much every two parter, save perhaps “The Return of Harmony”. It could have done with five more minutes, or another episode, to properly flesh out Thorax.
Still #4 on my best two parter list though. (ironically, it beats ‘Canterlot Wedding’ because I thought the pacing was much better, and the secondary characters resolving the plot had been previously introduced)
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From what I heard, To Where and Back Again Part 2 was rushed, and Twilight only had one line in part 2.
Why?
The time between a script being finalized and storyboarded and it hitting the screens has always been about a year, the time between a script being written and aired often more than that. There are (infamously) still scripts from writers who left years ago only just being shown now.
This has been the case since the beginning of the show.
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“Ah! A side character! Don’t feel so on the other side does it?”
In that case, I’ll be surprised if the pacing isn’t so rushed that most characters only get a few lines.
Pay attention, several of us(not in this thread in particular) are hoping against hope this ends in a compromise lesson.
Bit too soon for that. The script for this episode was likely locked down long before TWABA aired.