I feel the same way. If MLP would be allowed some more serious storylines, one that could be further developed is the ethic/moral implications of the "evil guys" being automatically unredeemable by "good guys" because on an invasion. Queen Chrysalis might be truly evil, but the fact is her kind feeds of love, and they can't get in with one another and on their territory, like parasites. But are they GUILTY of being parasite? What caused their nature?



But the most important thing is, as illustrated in this picture, the "good guys" defeating them could mean sentencing them to a death by starvation. Is that the moral way, the merciful way usually associated with Good?... Couldn't the good guys help Chrysalis come up with an alternative way of getting love? If Chrysalis still stubbornly maintained her evil position, then the good guys could try defeat her with a higher ground, knowing they did all they could to persuade her. But in any case, but the rest of the Changelings shouldn't pay for the evil ways of a terrible leader. We even have now the episode where Thorax wanted out of such things.



... and I think I have some fanfic material here, lol (but someone else probably wrote something like this already)