Talk:The Cutie Map - Part 2/@comment-26281156-20150405180744/@comment-4531340-20150405223949

Yeah, she seemed more like a cult leader and the village ponies were her cult followers, more than anything (at least, to me)

Speaking of which, I was honestly kind of shocked at how dark and realistic the brainwashing was portrayed (now granted, it was played a lot lighter than I've seen in other media, but still quite dark for this show)... which kind of made me disappointed when the ponies just seemed to shake off their brainwashing with no lasting side effects. Oh well, ya can't win 'em all.