Just a Thought: MLP S5 E1-2

SPOILERS AHEAD!

Dear Princess Celestia,

Today I learned that, yes, this show IS capable of a level of horror higher than Queen Chrysalis. Also, is it wrong that I want to smother Starlight Glimmer with a pillow stuffed with her own hypocrisy?

Sincerely,
You're excited, yet enraged fan, Xain Russell

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After nearly a year, MLP: FiM is back, and has hit the ground running with arguably the scariest thing I have ever seen from this show. Chrysalis and the Changelings were terrifying, but more in an implicit way. Very little of their disturbing nature was showed to the audience, but in 'Cutie Markless' the disturbingness is shoved right in your face and I will admit that I actually felt uncomfortable at some points.

But if there's one thing that really got my emotions to run high, it was our villain, Starlight Glimmer. On the one hand, I like that we got a villain who wasn't a big scary monster with a unique design. I liked that she was just a regular pony that just so happened to find one really powerful spell. Like Sombra, it felt like a breath of fresh air, and it proved once again that a villain doesn't need to be loud and bombastic to be intimidating. That being said, I HATE THIS BITCH MORE THAN ANYTHING! This character is representative of just about everything I could possibly hate in terms of a person's system of belief. I vouch for the right to let people believe whatever they want to believe, but when someone's belief system ends up harming others physically and or mentally, that person basically forfits the right to have anyone take those beliefs seriously. Worse yet is when their hypocrits about it.

Starlight Glimmer basically started a straight up cult, one that put forward a very damaging ideology. And I know this show has had plot lines before about "Deep inside we're all the same," (See: Equestria Girls) but in those instances it was more "We're different, but our differences shouldn't keep us from working together and being friends." Here though, they basically force this way of thinking on others, even trying to brainwash them. They threaten each other with solotude and being marked as a reprobate for even daring to think they should be different, to strive to be something special. It's cruel, it's frightening, and it reminds me an aweful lot of stories about people's up bringing in school and church, where trying to question those above you and having an original thought got you slamed and rediculed. So yeah, "This Town" is horrible, its leader is a monster, and if it weren't for the fact that the towns people ended up saving the day in the end I would have said the place needed to be burnt to the ground.

There's another thing I liked: the mane 6 don't defeat Starlight Glimmer, the town's people do. They were all just background ponies and yet when the chips were down and our heroines needed help, they stepped up and proved that even in every crowd of faceless extras, there are plenty of heroes who could just as likely stand up to evil as the mane 6 will.

And speaking of the mane 6, well not much has changed, which is just the way I like it. But what I REALLY like is that the spotlight wasn't on Twilight this time. Everyone got a chance to shine in this episode, and it's been a while since we've seen that when such important matters are at stake. I've said in the past that while I do like Twilight Sparkle, I feel that when it comes to the season openers and closers she get's way too much attention. I know she's supposed to be the focus character of the show as a whole, but Twilight has reached the apex of her development, where as the other five still have a lot of places they could go in terms of their character. I want to see more of them, as well as all six of them as a group on equal footing... and not equal like Starlight Glimmer wanted them to be, but equal as individuales with different talents and personalities that complement each other.

All in All, I really loved this two parter, I want to kill Starlight Glimmer, and HUZZAH for the Background Ponies!

Comments

[ScottishPony]

Interesting points that I must agree with. I also really like the fact that Starlight didn't change in a coin flip, like Sunset Shimmer. She ran off in rage, still believing that her way is the only way which is right, and everyone else is stupid and blind, which I like. Monsters don't change in a day, so I won't be surprised if we see her controlling some of the events happening in this season, maybe to try and get back at them. But above all, I like her sneaky manipulation methods & how intelligent she is. Who knows, she might try the Sunset approach- begging for forgiveness, but when the Mane 6 think that she has changed, she does something which really hits them deep- probably Twilight in particular (maybe by stealing something precious to them- maybe one of Twilights most precious books, or maybe attempting to steal her crown again? I dunno.), since she probably believes that all of the things which have happened was Twilight's fault. It was her fault that her followers turned against her, it was her fault that she was outcast from the village, and it was her fault that she's having to wander a cold cavern alone; which will probably lead to her anger festering into a complete loathing of her and everything she stands for, so I actually hope we can see her again later in the season.

And I kinda want to see those 'background ponies' again, particularly Double Diamond and his friends. Also, is it bad that all I could think of when I saw their group hug at the end was 'Recasted'? They just look like such a fitting double to the Mane 6... No? Okay, I'll go to the corner now...

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