Forgiveness appeared a lot of times actually. And was an important theme in Ponyville Confidential.

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Like, First Fluttershy gets forgiven by everypony after Rarity told that it was Iron Will who made her a jerk that she did and regret doing it when she throws a tantrum over everypony hating her, then she finds Gilda and finds a way to make her forgiven to everypony, even Rainbow Dash  
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I know, How about a Gilda and Fluttershy forgiveness episode with Rarity?

I’d like Gilda to be forgiven, but not to become a total sap, sort of a ‘good girl with attitude’ type.

I think (insert a character here that would fit) should be Fluttershy.

I think it’s unlikely. Gilda doesn’t have the same charisma as characters like Trixie or Discord. In fact I kind of doubt we’ll ever see her again but hey I could be wrong.
 
That said, wouldn’t it be great if the moral of episode 11 wasn’t something like “everyone can change if you give them the chance” but “some people are just dicks, don’t waste your time on them”?
 
Ahhh… but that seems very, very unlikely for this show. Still, a man can dream.

@Trixie
 
Yeah, Twilight’s a total paragon. You’re lucky you weren’t fighting someone like me, becuase if a crazy bitch with a obviously evil amulet were to come at me, my response would have been to telekinetically grab a brick then bash their head until their horn broke in half, soccer moms be damned.
 
I do freely admit my desire to quickly and gruesomely murder all my opponents is a product of my total cowardice.

@Trick
 
Hey, I started that duel out with magic missile, remember?! Twilight’s just too g-rated. I’m the duelist you deserve.

@Trixie
 
You know nailed the nail on the head. I almost feel like they’re trying to start meshing the Season Openers/Enders with the more slice of life episodes. “Magic Duel” was this done well: It had wizardy and spell casting (despite the fact that even the greatest of unicorns can’t seem cast magic missile) but still focused on day to day morality (forgiveness, work as a team, don’t do drugs, all that shit).
 
“Flutter On” sounds like the same idea, but as a total fucking train wreck. If they don’t handle Celestia and her actions very carefully, I will fully endorse Cadence other throwing her. How sad is it when you need the Princess of LOVE to kill your enemies?

I agree with Cotton.
 
Unless it’s done very, very well, this upcoming episode just might ruin Discord for me. Half the appeal is that he does all these horrible things and ruins the lives of innocent ponies for his own amusement not because he doesn’t know any better, or it’s in his nature. He does it because he enjoys it. The fact that such a horribly wicked character could exist in an otherwise beautifully innocent world is scary, and that’s what makes him such a great villain. He doesn’t belong.
 
Besides, Celestia’s holding all the idiot balls by releasing him. Unless the whole Starswirl the Bearded hype is true and she somehow strips him of his powers and turns him back into a pony and decides “Hey, I’m the good guy here. I’ll give him one last chance to clean up his act” then Celestia just became the biggest dumbass in Equestria.

Gilda wasn’t a “bad guy” though, she just had an attitude.

Well, Sombrero was pretty irredeemably evil and was killed, but we don’t like talking about him.

Gotta agree with Cotton on this. We seem to have an obsession with having antagonists get redeemed. Couldn’t we just truly have a character be evil, and it all accepted he’s evil?
 
May take a murder or two though…

I was thinking of the trixie episode, but it didn’t seem to me it was the main point of it,

 
The Great and Apologetic Trixie is disappointed over how quickly Sono has forgotten how Great and Apologetic Trixie is.

That’s the Discord episode? Oh, well curses! Next season then, I guess instead of forgiveness, but redemption?

Isn’t that the premise of Episode 11?

Can’t we just have an antagonist be an antagonist I swear they’re getting redeemed left and right, who’s next the diamond dogs? :T
 
but I would enjoy another Gilda episode…not this season though, not without my Rarity episode

Discord episode will be this.
 
Also, my episode was… sort of this?

Everytime I hear the word “forgiveness” I can’t help but think of that one scene in the Camp Lazlo Halloween episode.

I guess the one where Trixie returns?

Magic Duel?

There’s the Discord one they’re planning…