I have the feeling the show is gonna drop the reformation hammer hard on her and I doubt I'll find that satisfying. That Queen Chrysalis's goals are somewhat diametrically opposed to what the ponies want (since the ponies being food sources for her and her people are part of that goal) is kinda a given, and she was giving an 'out' for doing that, but I like that she didn't take it. The show doesn't say how long she's lived as a love sucking menace on pony kind, but presumably, it's been a while, and the comic has suggested VERY long time. To her being beaten must have been like if we went to the grocery store and then everything in our fridge somehow staged a revolution, convinced our friends and family to become besties with them, and then asked if we wanted to join just so long as we, admit we where wrong all along to go grocery shopping, stop 'ruling' like we once did, and completely abandoned our way of life in favor of the new grocery togetherness accords. I mean, her saying "NO" to all that makes perfect sense to me.



She's not a pony. She's, by many accounts, a supperior entity whose purpose was to rule over and be the vanguard for a species who sustains themselves at the expense of other sapient species... Teaching her she can just make friends and be happy is kinda the equivalent of teaching a Lion to eat tofu (to borrow a page from Futurama) . As counter as it might be to the morals the shows want to teach, I reject the notion that there's got to be certain actions and words one can do to make someone happy in a way that conforms to ideas created by a somewhat completely alien culture.