Talk:What About Discord?/@comment-23858349-20151108151302/@comment-10390252-20151108212815

@Impy,

He's thousands of years ago and a Sapient Aspect Spirit of one of the fundamental forces of the metaphysical universe. So, it is highly unlikely that there is anything about being a Princess or about equine behaviour that he doesn't know inside-out, especially as he is now becoming more familiar with friendship too.

However, and this is a big 'however', my problem is that he just wasn't written correctly. The whole episode seems to be based on a series of fiat revelations that Discord had always been planning 'x' and that he somehow had the other five's unwitting co-operation in doing so. It just doesn't scan right. It would have worked a lot better if he's been needing Twilight all the way through like in Three's A Crowd, encouraging her to act out her jealousy and admit that there is nothing wrong (thus coming across as a diabolical tempter) until the final reveal about the difference between having negative emotions and letting them control you.

My problem simply is that the episode was badly written and filled with padding in all the wrong places.