Talk:The Lost Treasure of Griffonstone/@comment-7345250-20150523220408/@comment-7345250-20150524084049

Good grief. You're missing the ruddy point.

Cindy Morrow, the writer, intended to portray Gilda in a bad light in Griffon the Brush Off.

Amy Keating Rogers, a different writer, has now portrayed Gilda in a more positive light.

Whether Gilda was good or bad is irrelevant. She was supposed to be a jerk in Morrow's story, and the Mane Six were supposed to be the souls who realize she is not really their friend. And for crying out loud, Gilda is a thief and a menace in her first appearance! She is a rogue and a terrific one at that, just as Morrow intended.

Rogers, however, drastically tones down the original Gilda and fails to capture the character that Morrow introduced in Season 1. Whereas she was once a bully, here she is a mildly irritable tightwad in a sea of greedier tightwads. A shadow of her former self.

And don't give me that "The real message of the episode is X" baloney. The real message is whatever the letter to Celestia says. The real message is what the writer intends and explicitly states at the end of the episode, not what you want to hear in accordance with your headcanon. Those letters are a core element of Season 1 for a reason.