I see a lot of the modern G4 fanbase say that Twilight's actions in the movie up through the point of her crashout are completely justified, that she was right to do everything she did, but I don't understand thinking this when the entire final act directly contradicts this line of thinking? Not just the fact that her friends inspired others to help and end up saving Twilight, but Twilight HERSELF is in the final moment once again offered a choice between seizing power and potentially ending the conflict, or helping a friend and inspiring them to help in return, and this time, she makes the correct choice, saving Tempest.The entire point of the movie and Twilight's necessary character growth seems to go completely over the heads of current MLP fans.
Saving a war criminal who was going to murder, subvert and enslave everything you held dear is contrived. It already happened with Starlight and it was bad then. The movie should've just involved her killing or imprisoning Tempest and Tempest accepting this instead of screaming into the abyss. Even corny 1980's animated movies involved the villain getting their just desserts.
>>43280289But Twilight realized that the Storm King’s plan needed everyone involved in it to succeed and taking away one of them made it fail.
>>43280289This is a reasonable take. I care much less about this, and more about the take that Twilight was totally based for yelling at her friends, using them, and attempting to steal a powerful artifact from a foreign people.
>>43280276Sounds like contrarianism for contrarianism's sake. In which garbage bin did you find this opinion?>>43280289>subvertWhat does this word do here? I mean, technically, fliping burgers may be described as subverting them, at least if you cue the intended meaning with a hand gesture, but it's not what people reach for this word for. When I think of subversion, what comes to mind first is a last-ditch self-defence against mental attacks: when a brainwashed slave or a robot programmed to do evil creatively reinterprets her orders in order to do good instead, that's my personal prototypical example of subversion. In FiM, there are three prototypical examples: s2 Discord (attempts to undermine virtue to weaken the elements; tactical reasons; case-by-case basis; loses to written word), s8e12 Cozy (attempts to misuse her talent for evil plotting to do a good thing - help the CMC join the school as they wanted; self-actualization reasons; simultaneous tactical use of deception against fate and against the procedure; wins, to an extent) and late Cozy (attempts to weaponize virtue; sincerely believes in her edgy interpretation; I don't remember her methods well; I don't remember if there was a clear singular reason for her failure). (There's also late Discord, but I sort of memory holed this wacky nonsense.) I don't think you have anything like that with Tempest. She says to Twilight that friendship failed them both to bond over the pain of it, but only when she believed she has already won.
>>43280276>crashoutI will kill you.
