A Moment with Trixie · 10:17pm Apr 30th, 2016
Warning: Spoilers from the latest episode, No Second Prances, abound. Proceed with caution.
This is an extrapolation from my comment in the Episode Discussion because I have a lot to say about this. I said that the episode's greatest strength and biggest weakness was how it played with my expectations. I already explained in the comment how this is a weakness, but now I want to get into how it's a strength. Because I think we learned a lot more about Trixie Lulamoon in this episode than in any other.
To recap, I was never sure what was on Trixie's mind until the very end. There were times when she was sympathetic, but there were also times she seemed to be manipulating Starlight into abandoning Twilight. So, I kept wondering what her game was. Did she honestly want Starlight to be her friend? Or was she cooking up some nefarious scheme?
Little did I know that both answers were correct. Trixie actually did want to have her cake and eat it, too. Her thought process basically boiled down to this: "I genuinely empathize with you, Starlight. Let's be best friends. Oh, and can I also use our friendship to get back at my biggest rival? Kthanx!"
Honestly, what did Trixie expect to happen? Did she think Starlight (or anypony, for that matter) would be okay with this? Truth be told, I have to wonder if she was thinking this through at all. In fact, it's heavily implied that she did want to be Starlight's friend, but when she saw a chance to get petty revenge against Twilight, her ego got in the way. And that in turn leads me to believe that she has a bit of an ego problem.
"Really? You made a whole blog post just to tell us that?" I hear you groan. "Trixie has a big ego; what a shock. This isn't news to us, you helmet-wearing weirdo."
Yes, yes. We all know Trixie's massive ego has been established since Season 1. But it's not just a character flaw in the sense that "Oh, she has a big ego; she needs to come off her high horse." It actually appears to be a deep, psychological problem that's preventing her from engaging with others properly and leading a healthy, well-rounded life. Even when she tries to be nice, her sense of self-importance keeps looking for opportunities to make herself greater and more powerful at the same time. As I've said many times, I'm no psychoanalyst. I don't even know what I'd call this other than egomania. But I do believe she needs to see Dr. Wolf. Especially since she almost committed suicide over this whole fiasco.
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Anyone else notice that some aspects of this show seem to be getting darker and darker with every season? 
I've noticed that as well.
And I also feel kind of uncomfortable that despite her flaws and ego, I ended up relating to Trixie the most in this episode, namely due to her emotional struggles in regards to friendship. Personally found the episode to be a mixed bag, as the first half was much better than the second, but yeah. It was definitely something.
MLP is definitly getting more...mature? Maybe thats why it's getting darker
I think it started to get darker somewhere around mid-Season 5 and only getting more noticeable as time went on.