Talk:Twilight Sparkle/@comment-16424758-20130820211957/@comment-26973802-20130822050552

Look at the pattern of villains, lately. Nightmare Moon is a standard eternal darkness villain. Discord is a bit darker than her because of his corrupting the Mane 6. Chrysalis is way darker than him and more menacing than Nightmare Moon, and Sombra is darker still. Basically, the villains get darker each time. But movie villain Sunset Shimmer is no darker than Nightmare Moon. Sure, she tries to kill Twilight, but guess what, so did Nightmare Moon, at the cliff.

And from the looks of things, the villain of the Season 4 premier will be Nightmare Moon, most likely in a flashback sequence where Twilight will play the role of Celestia. See what I'm saying? They're running out of villains, can't come up with any darker than Sombra, except for the "BigBad" behind Nightmare Moon and Discord that they're probably saving for the end, which I'm guessing will either be the Season 4 finale, or a movie set after Season 4.

As to the money thing, remember half the fandom left when Twilight became an alicorn, so they won't be making as much money off MLP anymore. I'm sure Season 4 will be good, but I bet the majority will find it as "lame" as they thought Season 3 was.