@bboifatz  
That was her destiny. The others have to find their own true path.

@Background Pony  
des·ti·ny  
/ˈdestinē/  
Noun  

@EvilTon  
And her friends don’t get shit, even though Twilight is almost helpless without them.
 
Also, finishing the poem in MMC shouldn’t even count because it was such utter bullshit writing. In Fact, I don’t even consider that an accomplishment all since the writers opaquely handed that “victory” to her and she did nothing to earn it.

@bboifatz  
Well, let’s count her accomplishments:  
>Being tutored by the ruler of the land,  
>Leading a team that saved the world at least two times, and being involved in it several other times,  
>Solving an puzzle that’s been unsolved for centuries (that even a legendary sorcerer couldn’t).
 
Incredibly stupid and contrived way, Eh?

You People are completely confusing the term Destiny with Fate.
 
Fate is the result of things predetermined.
 
DESTINY is the culmination of the path one has already chosen to take.

@Background Pony  
She became a demigod for an incredibly stupid and contrived way that diminished the accomplishments of the other characters. That is about as godmode sue as it gets.

@Mayojar77  
Nothing canonical to point to them having ‘chosen’ their weilders.
 
They became the weilders becausee the already exemplified the neccessary traits.

@EvilTon  
They restore things to a state of Harmony.
 
Hence Elements of “Harmony”.

@Mayojar77  
She has never been a godmode sue. You have not a shred of canon evidence to back that up.

Alright I’m back. What’d I miss?  
@The_Mungoman  
Wow, did you just compare FiM with that? You’ve just lost all credibility to me.
 
(Just for the record, I’m kidding, alright? That is a very good point was brought up. And I never thought of all this as a competition to see who’s right or wrong, just different points of view being exposed. That is a healthy thing to do, as long as it doesn’t devolve into “fuck you, I’m right, you’re wrong”)

@Background Pony
 
”…sometimes this show contradicts itself on stuff it presents as important.”
 
It does? I mean that as a sincere question. I may not have been pay as closer attention as I thought I was.
 
Regardless, that’s bad from a narrative point of view, since it can make the show feel very discombobulated (watch latter-day Simpsons or Family Guy episodes to see what I mean)

@Ebalosus  
Not every show needs to have a rigorous “world”, but sometimes this show contradicts itself on stuff it presents as important.
 
You didn’t see people complaining this loudly about the lack of re-appearance of Tank or Spike’s phoenix, did you? Because those really didn’t matter beyond the episode in which they were in. This episode explicitly was trying to do a big thing with big effects on the main characters.

It’s…hard for me to care about things like this, since FiM isn’t within a nitpicky genre, ergo them making things up as they go doesn’t really bother me (should it?)

@King Sombra  
>ponies aren’t serious business  

ITT: Absolutely nobody with any sense of proportion

@Splinter17  
Especially when, up until now, there were very few truly deal-breaking episodes.

@UTTFISH’S  
Kid’s shows are not exempt from criticism. The fact that FiM is a kid’s show does not excuse it from having a sloppily-written episode. Especially if said sloppy writing prevents me and many, many others from being entertained by the episode, which is what it’s supposed to do.

@Background Pony  
BP is right.  
vomits

@UTTFISH’S  
That really doesn’t make it OK for the writing to not have internal logic.

@UTTFISH’S  
I refer you to this.

@bboifatz  
@bboifatz  
And once again remember, this is just a show.  
A kids’ show nonetheless.

@bboifatz  
Damn autocorrect…

@EvilTon  
Good grief– I am starting to wonder if Larson actually wrote cutie mark chronicles now. Rarity wanted to make clothes even before she got her mark, which proves that cutie marks DO NOT REPRESENT DESTINY. The more we dog onto the episode, the more broken we see it is. I can’t believe this shit made out put off the writing room.

@EvilTon  
Who said Rarity was literal? How does she know that her horn dragging her to a rock was predetermined? We can’t always take characters by their word. Otherwise, Zecora really is a cannibalistic enchantress, like Pinkie said.  
The entire point of every CMC episode is that CMs = special talent. People say things all the time like “my wife and I were destined to meet” or “I was meant to be a doctor”, but that doesn’t mean any of it was predetermined.  
And none this explains why the swapped ponies were terrible at their new talents, or why Rainbow’s Cutie Mark was switched from “GOTTA GO FAST” to “lol weather contrololol.”