While I don't fully have the unbridled hatred of Starlight that some portions on the fandom have, I literally on see to positive points about her overall. One, she was at least a decent villain. While her driving force/motivation/thing that spurred her to evil, if the last five minutes had happened differently the episode would have been much better and her character wouldn't have turned into the pathetic mess it was the then.



Two, she was at least decently powerful, although I think it was overplayed. Twilight, a unicorn-turned alicorn who has only used real offensive magic a few times onscreen and still doesn't seem to have much overall durability, is certainly not the best judge of magic power and how it is used in combat. At least Starlight put up enough of a fight to make it interesting and not get defeated immediately by mystic powers.



Overall, she got off way to easily. Sure, her actions had no lasting consequences (that we've seen so far), but that is really a bad message for a kids show. "You can almost ruin the future even after you've seen what can happen from your actions, but that's ok since your friend was a little bit of a dick to you". At least, Sunset had to Earn her redemption, and she Became a better character for it (Getting hit by the rainbow was NOT a redemption, just the turnaround point). Also, by Starlight's and Hasbro's logic, both Twist and Moondancer are now entitled to a free shot at harming the peace of their world.





Hopefully, Starlight will disappear somewhere between seasons and might get only one or two limited mentions, if even that.



Kind of late to be saying this, but good drawing by the way. I like your style and am still fully onboard with whatever Sunset's here. Sunset best pony. (sorry for the small novel, but I couldn't stop myself).