Celestia · 4:18pm Jun 24th, 2015
A few things have been going on with me lately and oddly they have to do with Celestia. I'm sure by know most people know I don't like Celestia. I have made that clear in my author notes and that I have a problem writing characters I honestly don't like. It's something that I am working on and I hope in my future works I can avoid. I have to say I was disoppointed with Cadence and Celestia in Princess Spike (I believe Luna was making sure Twilight was having pleasant dreams).
However, recently I watched Silver Quills video on Celestia and it gave me something to think about. About her living in the moment and trying to teach others to do so as well. Not a bad thing and maybe if the show would show more of that instead of her always sitting on the throne and making Twilight do all the work I might like her again. But one thing was mentioned that I fully disagree with: her dreams. So Celestia's dreams show her the future from time to time and she plans accordingly. Oh GOD Celestia, you are a horrible planner. I think your track record speaks for itself with things like the Canterlot wedding and Tirek.
I do have some positive things to say about her *gasp* and it comes from friendship is magic. In the last one, I have nothing but good things to say about her which is...something that hasn't happened in so long. The first thing is the surity for the changelings: guards belonging to both princesses, a barrier spell, and a lot more. This shows that Celestia is taking the situation very seriously. And the flashback shows her taking on the bug queen and winning. Again: why can't she be more like this?! She'll never be Luna level awesome but she won't be in my hate catagory anylonger.
on my opinion celestia is the kind of ruler that plays chess with the lives of her subjects in order to bring to largest benefit to equestria with the minimal effort
Haven't seen 'Princess Spike' yet, but based on what you said I will refute the horrible planner statement for the sake of argument.
Depending on the style of future sight, Celestial might be seeing a self-fufilling prophecy, in which Her attempts at changing the future she saw actually cements it. In which case she could do theoretically nothing to change the future as any action on her part (or inaction as the case may be) will only further cement the outcome. This theory can be backed up canonically, because we discovered that the Equestrians do have a time-travel spell, and when Twilight attempted to change the past, she actually ensured that future event.
Alternatively, Celestial might be seeing a future event and be fully capable of preventing that exact event from happening, however she doesn't expect what that change does. For instance, without the shield over Canterlot during the wedding, the Changelings might have infiltrated and won with an overwhelming victory, and Celestia halted this by placing the sheild. In response, Chrysalis attempted to take the city by a different approach, capturing Cadence and enslaving Shining Armor so he would drop the sheild, which she would never had had to do if Celestial never placed the sheild in the first place.