MLP 41 - What a princess should do By RingTeam Watch

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I could make a misunderstanding with this, so I'll start saying this: I don't dislike the idea of Twilight being an alicorn. When I first watched the Magical Mistery Cure, I thought: "yeah, ok, some new wings". Two weeks later I watched it again and I thought it was a good ending for an era of this show. It wasn't perfect (for example, I didn't like the glass of water joke because it was too long and too guided), but it was good. Then the first thing I've said was: "The next season should be about Twilight being a princess and dealing with some diplomatic problems, because she's a princess like Cadence, Celestia and Luna". This is where the disappointment began. When you give wings to Twilight and make her a princess, you're giving to her a new life, a new responsibility, new powers and a new status.



My main problem with this is that you rarely see Twilight in this kind of situations, which they're new for her. You still see her reading some books in her library as before. You still see her walking around Ponyville as before. You still see her reorganize some books as before. Even in the castle of friendship she got in season 5. You rarely see her doing political or diplomatic stuff, and I think it could have been great to create some funny moments, like Twilight being really tired of doing a lot of paperwork and saying: "This is frustrating!". It could have been a great detail for seasons 4 and 5.



And yes, we've seen a few episodes that shows her in this kind of conflict, like Party Pooped and Princess Spike, but the first one wasn't about Twilight, it was about Pinkie Pie. And the second ended up like the most despised episode in the entire season. And I can't defend it, but it was one of the very few chapters where Twilight had the chance to deal with some diplomatic stuff and she ends up sleeping.



I guess we haven't enough bad episodes with Spike...



And when we see Twilight as an alicorn in some usual moments, it doesn't make sense. For example, in Maud Pie Twilight could have saved Pinkie Pie from that giant rock. In Rarity Takes Manehattan Twiilght could have teleported Rarity to her appointment. In Cutie Map and Cutie Re-Mark, according to the script, Starlight Glimmer is more powerful than Twilight that she recreates the time travel and takes the Twilight's Cutie Mark from her. That... sounds weird to me.



All I'm saying is that if you make a character to be an alicorn or a powerful creature, the conclusion is: Make her to be as powerful as she looks like. Because, if you don't, you'll waste an opportunity to make Twilight as an evolved character with some new responsibilities. You could cut her wings off and she would be the same character.



I don't think we will see this kind of conflict nowadays, at least as far as I know because it's been almost two months that I didn't see the new episodes. My last one was The Gift of Maud Pie, an episode with some really desperated jokes in my opinion.



About this comic, I thought it could be funny if I recreate Hasbro as one guy. It has the Anonymous style, but grey instead of green. The posters from the movies produced by Hasbro was an idea inspired by the ending of one episode from The Simpsons, where a producer has in his room a nice poster of Titanic, the 1997 movie, like the movie was a big deal (and it was, it was the highest grossing movie of all time for 12 years). In this case the movies are Transformers 2, Jem and the holograms and Rainbow Rocks.



This won't be the only time Hasbro appears as a man in my comic. It really depends on episodes I'm gonna watch.



What do you think about Twilight as an alicorn? Is she still the same character or has she evolved?

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Published : May 22, 2016