Im aware of the plot



and you missed mine



everything you just said begs the question "why do you need a title?"



what? am i to assume the "logic" that ponies are forever personally inept and should spend eternity under a matriarchal figure that does so just because, but still wants to claim moral high ground of purity when purity would suggest no need for political power? and the delusional wishy washy standards of her friends justify her holding of political power that has not been needed?



and what happens at the end? hmm? the social authority all goes back to the same hooves. the princesses get a pat of the back with everything unchanged save that even more characters are seduced and blinded to how power has been bought with friendship- or at least what looks like it.



if "friendship" is used to support personal gain (blind admiration greatly empty castles) and even more authority (conformity without question) it cant really be friendship- friendship is about life and health and no one worth their salt needs an authority title to spread it. and if she was worth her salt- she would see this.



have you ever asked yourself what would happen if Twilight didn't have a title to defend? she would do as she has always done; help to put the aggressors down. why the hell does she need it to do anything for the greater good?



She's a damned alicorn! She has more magic and skills that the majority of all of equestria there is no justification for even more authority over pony's lives short of a crisis. Meanwhile her title holds no bearing on her experiences and skills to implement them, and she has never needed it to teach or learn- in fact her title slows her ability to learn.



I would have though that Twilight's experiences would have helped her see since the begging that Celestia's means are not, and should not be, her own. Twilight ruins her own motives of friendship counseling with the unintended ulterior motive of clinging to authority to uphold a baseless belief of destiny.



It is obnoxious and disrespectful to set anyone up as THE harbinger of friendship and she will will be a listless hypocrite who kills her own message of hope until she learns that- even she is suckered by her own complacency.



Tempest's actions are understandable but not justified; of course she had to be stopped as the universal threat she had become. But she focused on the wrong part of the problem and didn't think deeply enough about her solution- just like the princesses and country she decries. Instead of supporting a new awareness that shows how inappropriate absolute royal authority is at addressing micro problems, she foolishly decided to use the wrecking ball approach and play the villain- the bully- the aggressor.



Its too bad that all Tempest was able to teach was how hurt she was inside but not how to address what allowed that hurt to fester into a disease. and I suspect that Tempest's reformation was out of desperation and broken faith in her own misguided mission and the desperation to seek any kind of healing, just like Starlight glimmer, Sunset shimmer, and Moon dancer - even if in defiance of her own life's knowledge.



Its too bad that Tempest couldn't even pose the thought that maybe Equestria's status quo is off, that the princess pattern needs to be broken and supplemented with other labors. That the projection of power is not friendly and is not what friendship is about... but that is the very thing that titles and crowns do.



J K Yearling and cheese sandwich are more credible than twilight because they dont need the pretense of destiny or the obnoxious authority of royal titles to make their talents make a difference.



and clueless twilight claims she views herself as no better than anyone else- yeah right, easy to say when she has the unfair privileges of royalty. if she truly meant that, then I ask again "why do you need to be a princess!?"



saving equestria, solving problems, offering friendship, friendly advice, and friendly aid... no one needs to be a princess to do that... ponies with less resources and power have done it, under what moral pretense prevents Twilight?