Oh, I agree, it should have been dangerous when she went to face the final boss or went to chase down Cog and meet Tom. What I think was a total disconnect from what Blackjack would have done vs what Somber just shat out without thinking about anything, was the fact she took the ponies she cared most about in life, fought her way through an insane cyber-army, shoved them in a rocket and sent them to the moon on what was almost guaranteed to be a one-way trip. Blackjack the character would have never let her friends come on that journey with her. She would have taken strangers or went alone, but she would have never, ever let her friends come with her. (except for Rampage because... Rampage.)



Blackjack the character would never have thrown away her friends lives like that. Somber the writer abandoned everything that had been established about Blackjack the character, everything she had learned, every thing that made her grow and become a better pony, and instead of thinking, "what would Blackjack do?" or "what would P-21 do here?" he treated the characters like they were two dimensional characters in a video game.



He threw away everything that had made Blackjack a developed character in favor of turning her into Cyberjack the marry sue, super-hero.

That is why he is a failed writer. That is why he will always fail as a writer because he doesn't understand the very basics of what it is to be a writer. He writes like he's never taken a writing class or even read anything about writing. If he has, he would have known better than to end the story like he did. Blackjack would have made her friends stay behind, P-21 would have agreed because he has a daughter to think about. There was no way in hell any father, would let his barely teenage daughter climb into a rocket on a suicide mission to the moon.