How Rainbow Rocks will affect The Misadventures of Sunset Shimmers (No Spoilers - Chillax!) · 4:27pm Sep 28th, 2014
So I just got done watching Rainbow Rocks, and thought I'd let you all know how it's gonna play into The Misadventures of Sunset Shimmers. Short answer is: it won't.
Since its reveal I knew I'd have to either incorporate it or not, depending on the world/character building that Hasbro would use to make the movie work. Sadly, the world development they've added is pretty hard to work around what I have planned, unless I make this sorta midway between EQG and RR. Unfortunately, the character development makes this impossible. Characters have been established in RR that were established differently in Misadventures, and Sunset Shimmers character especially, as well as how others act around her, are vastly different to what I've already got down and plan to build further.
So sadly, Rainbow Rocks will have no influence on The Misadventures of Sunset Shimmers. You'll just have to consider it an AU... of an AU. The comic annual last year that shows Sunset Shimmer's backstory was great and I was easily able to work that into my plans (in fact it made what I already had planned before writing even greater!), but this movie is simply too much of a gamechanger. That said, I do have plans for another story based in the EQG world that I may or may not be able to encorporate RR canon into. That of course will have to wait until I'm feeling better.
Now as for the movie itself, if you haven't seen it, I recommend it. 8/10. Good solid plot, fun characters, sorta okay villains, didn't end abruptly or outstay its welcome. It was nothing spectacular, but it was a fun watch and I'd certainly buy the DVD to support it. Just... fuck off Flash, okay? It's obvious you're only there to fulfil a 'romantic plot point' qouta -_-
SPOILER BELOW (okay, so I couldn't resist writing ONE spoiler, but at least I tagged it! ><;; ):
Only gripe was that Sunset Shimmer essentially became a 'fanfic cliché Trixie', in that she's so overwhelmed by her guilt her whole personality performed a 180. I don't mind characters trying to act more friendly towards others or changing sides, but you can do that without rewritting who they are and why we love them to begin with.
So Flash still doesn't get much development?
Hasbro you had a chance to quell some of Flash Sentry hate and you wasted it "shakes head slowly"
Boy, I hope Twilight doesn't. If she did, that would cement their love.
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I'm pretty sure they don't care for him, tbh. I mean, they already said once they don't want romantic interests for the M6, and the sheer forcefulness of this romantic subplot just reeks of contractual obligation. Not to mention how (mercifully) short his scenes are, as if they don't WANT him to have any spotlight or to be remembered.
If not... then whoever's in charge of writing Flash's characters and scenes is terrible
Okay, this isn't related to the blog, but did anyone see the ending of Rainbow Rocks?
Head cannon confirmed: Either spin-off or another Equestria Girls movie.
2490441 Well glad to hear his scenes are short at least. He was one of my main worries about the movie.
And you make a great point about how the movie wrote Sunset Shimmer. I mean, within the plot of Rainbow Rocks I loved the part she played and the pains she had the go through and especially the sheer feeling of triumph that everyone in the theater can feel emanating from her at the story's climax, but yes, she is entirely different from Equestria Girls's Sunset Shimmer, and that feels quite a bit off. "Fan-fic cliché Trixie"-type character "reformations" are often real dealbreakers to me in evaluating a story; now that I think about it, I'm surprised it didn't bother me more than it did when I was watching Rainbow Rocks.
(Oh, and by the way—have you ever thought about submitting a story to EqD? I just feel like "Sonata Dusk Goes to School" is too frickin' good to be sitting where it is with under a thousand views; it absolutely deserves more exposure!)
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I'm done with trying to get onto EQD until they remove their whole bias policy when it comes to evaluating fics
2492115 I have a feeling it going to be more of a sequel that leads up to a spin-off. I actually made my friend sit through the credits to see it.
I agree, Sunset's personality felt forced. They should have shown some previews of her immediately after the first film so that we could see some development like how we saw Discord reform from "Keep Calm & Flutter On" to "Twilight's Kingdom"