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I liked the letters being used in Return of Harmony because it felt like the end of episode morals were setting them up instead of just being things I didn’t really care for at first.
Plot contrivances can be pretty useful when done correctly, like the slide. (except of course the wrong term still bothers me)
And the letters… they hurted that story for me.
Deux Ex Machina is something that should be avoided as possible, but Plot Contrivances can be done as long as they don’t rely as copouts.
I’m used to thinking of those terms as things for writers to avoid, but I don’t think that this slide or the letters hurt their respective stories at all.
Actually, yeah. That’s pretty much correct.
So, all dei ex machinae are plot contrivances, but not all plot contrivances are dei ex machine, yes?
CRASH!!
Wrong Lever!
Come on, I can’t be the only one who thought that.
Deux Ex Machina is, in a nutshell, divine intervetion that saves the day when everything seems lost, like Celestia sending the letters to Twilight CASUALLY the moment she got corrupted, and that CASUALLY happened to be the cure for Discord’s corruption.
Now what happens here is a Plot Conveniance. Something that is relatively pulled out of their asses to get out of a situation easily and without much efford for the sake of keeping the story going. Learn the difference.