Fic idea based on finale. · 8:49pm Nov 29th, 2015
So, after that, I had a bit of a think, and got an idea for a fic based on the finale - though it diverges from it at some point, obviously. Pretty basic idea/thoughts though.
Starlight never seemed to have gone back to the present. In here, she would, after she defeats Twi or Twi gives up or something. But when she returns, it's the terrible futures Twi saw. She escapes back to that point in time she'd been to often (rainboom), each time doing something a little different to distract Dash and co. After all, she still wants to deny Twi's future. But each time she goes back, the futures still happen.
She eventually makes the connection that twi and co stopped those other events. She wonders why in some futures, NMM or someone else is missing - finds out that, at some point, a different group of ponies stops the big bads that aren't shown in that timeline. This frustrates her, rolling her eyes at the coincidence. Something like 'Pfft. So Twilight is replaceable. Whatever." Those groups never end up as important as the m6 though, hence failing at future threats.
She sees that happen each time until that final future. She doesn't know what happens with that one as it's completely new - but skips back in time until she finds out. She goes there repeatedly, trying to find/see where that group of friends is that'll stop that cataclysm from happening.
But it never does.
She loops again and takes it upon herself to stop that event - looping several times as her attempts fail, until she lets random ponies help her - forging a friendship along the way.
And once that big bad is stopped, it hits her - friendship really did save the day, as it always has. She realizes Twilight's friendship was indeed that important.
Then goes back one final time to put things right again.
Not gonna be writing this, but if someone wants a crack at it, be my guest!
This right here is one of the reasons the episode was all kinds of eh. Starlight has been stalking them for the entire season and knows them so well that she knows their cutie mark origin story and friendship connection but doesn't know that they saved the world (as a group) multiple times over? This puts the hilarity in everyone saying that Starlight wasn't so bad, she is either insane fixating on destroying Twilight and Friends consequences be damned or she does know the likely outcome and doesn't care.
Definitely something. I mean, Starlight didn't know that the Mane 6 stopped threats that were just as bad as she was? Wow, she's been in the dark for quite a while.
I like it!
Ha, it seems like we both wanted to rewrite the finale in a blog post. The fact that I've seen so many people try to rewrite it and make it better probably doesn't say anything good. Decent episode, but it could've been so much better.