Nov
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2022
Why was Starlight Glimmer forgiven but the other villains were not? · 9:20pm Nov 8th, 2022
Other villains were either stoned or sent to Tartarus, but Starlight Glimmer, who didn't destroy just one world but many, get rewarded by becoming part of Mane 7.
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Did you also find it weird how easy Starlight Glimmer had it after she destroyed several realities?
I'm gonna take a wild guess and say: Marketing reasons?
I suppose, playing speculative Devil's Advocate, you could argue those were the same world repeatedly rewritten, therefore more like previews of what could happen if Twilight ultimately didn't stop Starlight. It makes a complete mess of the causal logic, as most depictions of time travel will, but it's a fiction-ready get-out clause for anyone wanting to whittle down her rap sheet to "attempted to destroy one world".
Which isn't much better, admittedly.
5696920 It's not just that she didn't get any punishment. She actually got rewarded by becoming a student of Princess Twilight Sparkle and she got to live in a castle. The worst part is, she didn't actually learn anything. Her methods were still insensitive to say the least.
At the same time, a mere filly gets sent to Tartarus and then gets turned to stone for all eternity. Like, what the hell, Hasbro?
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Oh, something else too: I remember when DannyJ wrote his blog reviews of Season 7, he suggested Starlight's sudden rise in status was favouritism courtesy of Josh Haber's recent promotion among the writing staff. Later during his Season 9 review, he also said Cozy Glow's fate was just something they threw in later down the road when the crew collectively were taking the show less seriously. So there's that set of possible Doylist hypotheses.
But yeah, "what the hell, Hasbro?" basically sums up my reaction too. Agreed. Starlight's sudden promotion from dangerous madmare to Twilight's Chosen One was the point where my enthusiasm for the show plummeted.
5696928 Maybe the lesson here is: The world isn't fair. Justice is not distributed equally.