Talk:The Times They Are a Changeling/@comment-27078261-20160814205019/@comment-4531340-20160816224913

@Spook: I disagree - her intent was not to cause those things, but rather to deprive Princess Twilight of her friends, just as she had lost hers. I mean, perhaps some might consider her still deserving of some punishment (probably not that extreme, though), but I am not one of them - for one thing, she genuinely saw the error of her ways once Twilight showed her and was able to get through to her, and for another, Twilight (as a princess of Equestria - with all the authority that entails, I would imagine) decided to take her on as a pupil, and teach her about the magic of friendship (better to reform her, so she can then go out into the world and perform good acts, than to just lock her up and waste such potential).

Also, I disagree with your assessment of Discord - sure, he may have seemed harmless in Keep Calm and Flutter On, but what we see of him in The Cutie Re-Mark (as well as in The Return of Harmony), in addition to what Celestia says about him, indicated that, given the opportunity, he would not be so harmless. I also disagree that his reformation took place over several episodes - no, he went from being "dangerous entity that needs to be contained in stone" to "helpful, if unreliable, trickster" in the span of Keep Calm and Flutter On - further episodes just reinforced this personality (of course, there was the relapse in Twilight's Kingdom, and true, that helped him to shed some of the "unreliable" traits, though I still think the reformation - if you can even call it that [King Phelous actually has a good point there] - took place in one episode).