Season Six Episode Review: Every Little Thing She Does · 4:28pm Sep 24th, 2016
Hello, and welcome to another Starlight episode. Not much to say about this one. The former villain does evil things, everypony suffers, and she is instantly forgiven. Pretty much every post-redemption FiM episode ever. So if you'll excuse me, I'll be dealing with this giant magic energy ball that just appeared in front of-
*FLASH*
Ah, yes, this glorious episode! Let us look at “Every Little Thing She Does” and bask in the eternal glory that is Starlight Glimmer!
TECHNICAL SPECS:
Who cares? It's a Starlight Glimmer episode! That's all that's important!
REVIEW:
We open with a showcase of Starlight Glimmer's superiority to that pathetic excuse of a princess, Twilight Sparkle. She can teleport across the world, create impenetrable magic shields, and speed herself up so much that she can be in two places at once. Can Twilight do that? Perhaps, but she's so weak-minded and uncreative that she can't fathom using her magic in such a way. Her inability to think outside the box is why Celestia was able to convince her “Friendship” is something that requires a monarch.
Alas, she is desperate to prove her worth to Equestria's glorious overlord, so she forces Starlight to abandon her important work researching new spells to make Equestria more efficient and wonderful to instead waste time with her friends. Perhaps they could go to another isolated village and ruin their leader's life. Starlight, of course, wants nothing to do with it, but she needs to keep up appearances or she will end up out on the street, away from the resources necessary to help Equestria. Of course, things don't work out initially, so she decides to improve the Mane 6 with magic. More particularly, mind control.
Of course, things don't work out again, but that's new magic for you. Not even the exceptionally-skilled and brilliant Starlight Glimmer can expect to get everything right the first try. The five ponies are compelled to follow Starlight's instructions, but because stripping them of that pesky free will also made them mindlessly obedient, they follow the letter of Starlight's orders over the intent. Not that there is much of a difference when it comes to these fools. Why, I have it on good authority that they once ruined Rainbow Dash's life because they didn't like her bragging and abandoned Twilight Sparkle because she was accusing ponies of being evil without actual proof besides her possessive lunatic ramblings! Such awful ponies...
Because the orders were taken literally, the castle is set on fire, and subsequently flooded to put the flames out. Now, it was Twilight's friends that started the fire and caused irreparable water damage that will completely tank the castle's resale value, but who gets blamed? STARLIGHT! She was trying to make Equestria better, which is more than I can say for you, Princess Twilight! Perhaps you can jump through the mirror and cry into your boyfriend's chest some more. Yes, we know about you and Mister Beastiality. Shame on both of you!
Starlight, alas, must now pretend to make amends, lest she be cast out. She makes the excuse that she was afraid to try and fail new things, which is why she couldn't make friends. Excusing the fact that this lesson was also tacked onto a previous episode, Starlight doesn't NEED to make new friends. She has Sunburst, after all! And she had PLENTY of friends in her old village, at least until Twilight Sparkle showed up. So anyway, the apology works, Starlight is forgiven, she learns about friendship, and everypony chillaxes with the coolest pony around.
CONCLUSION:
Starlight Glimmer should be Equestria's true fourth princess, not that twerp Twilight Sparkle! She is powerful, knowledgeable, and doesn't drive her friends' friends to attempted suicide! She is...
Hey, what's this other big magic ball doing...
*FLASH*
Ugh...my head feels like it's going to explode. Wh-Where was I? Oh, right....this episode was blah. Some good humor, but Starlight really crossed the line with the whole brainwashing thing. It's cool that everyone was at least initially angry, but they forgave her way too quickly for that slip-up. Also not liking how ridiculously overpowered she is compared to everypony else, especially Twilight.
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I-I think I need to lie down for a minute. Anyway...blah episode, do better next time.
Don't cry for me, I'm already dead.
She's using mind-control again... Why exactly haven't they just slapped a magic inhibitor on her? She clearly can't be trusted with that horn.
If there's anything good about Starlight's episodes, it's that they debunk that stupid 'Unicorns can't use their magic on other ponies EVER (Apparently not even in self defense)' law from the comics(?), since if that were the case, Starlight would have been sitting in jail after No Second Prances (Discounting the cutie mark theft spell and the screwing with time, which were probably covered under the conditional pardon she presumably got from Twilight for becoming her student).
Starburst? You mean Sunburst, right?
4224328 Also, what is it with ponies underreacting to mind-control? That's worse than what a lot of the villains have done.
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Sorry. I was eating a Starburst when writing this.
I'll just leave this here as well since it makes a lot of sense to me.
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Something for the fanfiction community to rectify with a "missing scene", or an aftermath we didn't see in the episode.
Seriously though, that's just messed up.
...Twilight, why do you even have those sort of spells in your library?
Okay, okay. I'm guessing it's for academic reasons, and those books also contain other, less questionable spells you might need access to.
Though Starlight should definitelly lose her access to what I hope is her library's "restricted section".
...Then again, Twilight has had a history of having mind-altering spells lying around, long before she became an alicorn-princess, and still was in charge of maintaining a public library.
Just thinking of borrowing the CMC that love-poison instruction book. And, oh, multiple books with "reformation spells" she would have wanted to use on Discord, had he not just flatout eaten the pages in "Keep Calm and Flutter on".
And that was a public library she had those spells in.
"My marefriend wants to break up with me! I must ... persuade her otherwise!"
Hay, Twi's not even the only one -
Makes you wonder about that nation-wide, targeted memory-erasure spell described in "A Hearths Warming Carol"...
Of course, the first thing any sensible user of this spell would do would be to erase all knowledge of this spell's existence from everypony else's minds, so nopony else could use it against them... or convict them of using it.
Actually... How do they manage to reform villains so quickly?
...Oh, by the way, did anypony else pause, when Twilight turned that apple into a nest of baby-birds?
What happened there? Did she just create life, or are they mere facsimile? Are the birds gonna turn back into an apple?
Also, Twilight better turn back those books before Spike puts the tea-cup in the dish-washer...
I read that review entirely in a mindless happy zombie voice!
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4224328 I guess we have to accept that one of the ways ponies as a society/culture differ from humanity is they are just much less offended by the idea of mind control than humans are. It's basically a minor faux-pah, a misdemeanor at best. Free will-schmee will at all that.
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4224606 I think you get a pass if you're a waifu. Sombra was an evil cloud, so he didn't count. If he was in his Husbando form from the comics, he might have been forgiven too.
as facetious as it was, this was pretty much the plot of the "A Christmas Carol" episode.
I can't take Twilight and Starlight's power difference seriously - whether it's because Twi is inept at battle/improvising or Twi's holding back to stop from legitimately harming a citizen doesn't really do it for me.
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I wonder if Starlight is lazy.
Like, emotionally lazy. I don't buy that she worries she won't be able to make a cake, she made a stellar cake with magic just a few episodes ago. I don't even buy that she worries she won't be able to without magic.
No, all that, plus how she defaulted to ordering the others around, plus how utterly bored she was with Applejack's family stories, leads me to believe Starlight just doesn't want to put in any effort. Caring about others is, like, hard!
I've got half a mind to write a story with her meeting Zephyr. They guy who actually was afraid of failing.
4227606 Part of me thinks that perhaps she doesn't a want to invest too much effort into forming friendships with others in the case that one day they may break. She felt as if she lost something huge when Sunburst first left her for a magic school, so maybe she doesn't want to spend a lot of effort just to possibly face that again.
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That!
Is actually a fairly believable explanation. A huge part of her revenge against Twilight was because she (Twi) had a circle of friends who were ready to go through hell with her and Starlight envied her for it. Maybe Zephyr and she really should meet some time.
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