What's so complicated about Twilight's character that only Lauren Faust could capture properly? Not a single writer could capture the same kind of nuance Faust gave her.
>>43056636because faust wrote down her personality and knew how she would act while the nu-writers shat down by haskike did not care about watching the show and made up shit on the spot
Twilight had no consistent character in early Fim, she was different in every episode of season 1
>>43056640haha! i laugh! i laugh!
>>43056644She was basically designed as a vehicle for plotlines which meant longterm characterization was always going to be tough.
>>43056640MY FWUARKING HERO
purple plot
>>43056636Twilight Sparkle has by far one of the most unique. She's both a extremely straight-laced stickler, and extremely neurotic. This combination of traits is usually not seen in overachieving nerdy characters such as Twilight. For comparison, Moondancer's traits are much more in line with what is usually seen in this type of character.Because the combination of a highly neurotic and obedient to rules is so unusual, it ends up producing this specific kind of emotional expression that is quite easy to flatten, pair that with deadline constraints and you'll have only episodes written by Faust that perfectly balance her neuroticism with her obedience.But Faust is in a league of her own when it comes to writing talent. Now, a writer who doesn't fully inhabit the tension between Twilight's competence, straight-lacedness, and anxiety will ALWAYS end up defaulting to one of them. So in some episodes she'll be a boring leader, in others a neurotic retard, and in others a jobsworth rule abiding suckup.
>>43056678>one of the most unique characterizations in TV history*This folks is why you should proofread your posts!
>>43056678I wrote this like a retard but my point still stands! Please bear my half-asleep writing
>>43056678For someone who cares a lot about rules, she's very willing to break them if it benefits her.
>>43056681proofreading is for lib*rals
>>43056636IMO it's just because Faust and her mother were nerds of similar make + caliber, and the other writers were not + a lot of them just didn't actually watch the show>>43056678>Obedient to rulesCelestia's pet birdMakes no effort to make friends even when ordered toBreaks into a place she has permission to be inProlly a bunch of other stuff escaping me. She seems to follow her own general idea of doing the right thing>>43056651She has plenty of character and is pretty much the only member of the Mane 6 that had real room to grow from the start of the show. Everyone else was already pretty accomplished or set. Plus her flaws and general nature does make her ripe for character exploration IMO.I do think aggrandizing her too much really set the trajectory of her character in the completely wrong direction, though. Starting from ACW and especially onwards from the Crystal Empire (S3)A lot of this aggrandization I'd say comes from it being a 20 minute long kids show that was discouraged from multi-episode plots and the fact that she's the one with strong magic. Magic itself becomes the thing writers can explain anything away with - like helping Applejack harvest all those apples after Applebuck Season. I don't think they really meaned to put her on a pedestal there, they just needed a way to wrap up the episode. That sort of stuff just snowballs, especially as the writers move away from the initial genuinely creative basis that magic had in S1? Twilight and other unicorns weren't slinging around energy bolts, and Twilight knew '36' magic tricks, including weird shit like growing moustaches or whatever. Feels really different in presentation in comparison to later seasons. To exemplify this, eventually unicorns just started shooting magic lasers out of their horns.I'm not going to proofread this, I was just rambling. So apologies in advance for any confusion. It makes me sad she was done so dirty - random note, I liked Twilight a lot in Dragonshy.
>>43056743>I don't think they really meaned to put her on a pedestal there, they just needed a way to wrap up the episode.They actually did, the original premise was explicitly a conflict between Applejack and Twilight where magic can handle the apples way faster and better than Applejack but Applejack's pride won't let her change away from her bad tradition. This is one of several examples of where changes from Faust's original vision were actually positive.>>43056743>Feels really different in presentation in comparison to later seasons. To exemplify this, eventually unicorns just started shooting magic lasers out of their horns.I have to assume it was never a hard-and-fast rule given it got dropped the moment she left, but Faust seemed to like the idea of magic never being used to directly cause harm. They should've stuck with that, it made the magic far more interesting.
>>43056636she's purple
>>43056963was she behind the bit of '87 and the slaughter of those foals?
>>43056636Because Twilight is her selfinsert.
>>43056636She writes her opinions as the moral of every episode, so people consider her the most complex and developed character, when she's really leeching off of characterization that happens to her five friends. If Hasbro kept their "Dear Princess Celestia" mandate and shoehorned her everywhere like in Fall Weather Friends, she would still be considered nuanced.
>>43056636First of all that's not true. Watch EQG 1. Second of all she's not complicated, she's just a heroine.
>>43056636Twilight was designed as the audience surrogate. She was an archetype of a nerd, created by half nerd, half tomboy, and made to be a heroine, just like >>43057376 said, and the main character of the show, just like >>43057217 said.>>43056644>>43056651This could be said about every member of the Mane 6.
>>43056743What if Twilight get iPad?
To make a character feel real and engage the audience, they need to be selfish and always have their own goals and desires. Faust was a genius at directing this within the bounds of an educational show meant to teach kids good values. Twilight Sparkle is the pure embodiment of this principle. In the Ticket Master you see Twilight being self interested and self serving through the act of giving. She has her own solipsistic world view of how things should be done and what makes someone worthy of the ticket. She's both relatable because we empathize with her being harassed by her friends, but she's also likable because she's trying to do something good. There's a feeling of reality and true friendship here. Twilight is lovingly and dramatically fending them these selfish ponies. This isn't a fake world where ponies are perfect kind, selfless beings. It's a real world where ponies are self serving like us BUT they're so incredibly wholesome, with a toothlessness in their desires that it makes us fall in love.The later seasons divorced these two concepts. On the one hand you now had boring characters who were genuinely selfless and unrealistically didn't care about their own interests. And on the other, you had modern cynical characters that no longer fit the educational bounds of a show trying to teach kids good values and were just there to be as funny and engaging as possible.
>>43057735You're a fucking retard and you don't know what the word "selfish" means. Also you can't be loving and selfish at the same time.
>>43057695What?
>>43056636That is even more the case for Pinkie Pie. Her canon ended when Faust left because they clearly replaced her with a doppelganger.
>>43056678>Faust is in a league of her own when it comes to writing talent.Creative world building and characters. But her writing is not excellent. Consider the first 2 eps. I like them but they are far from kino.
>>43056638fpbp
>>43058131>charactersFaust was a rainbowfag and sucked on her marecock throw out season 1. Her Pinkie pie though was great in first 2 seasons.
