Talk:My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (comics)/@comment-27578467-20191108083254

The Cosmos story arc helped me refine an issue I have with the later writing, which I may write more about in blog form at some point. In brief I found the detail about Discord's nonviolent disposition actively and needlessly limiting to his character. I thought the show did a fantastic job of subtly suggesting his true intentions and leaving it up to the audience to triangulate his actual motivations, at least in the first five seasons. By outright saying that he had no harmful intent and going into specific detail about his previous actions, I feel like they're tearing down the expertly-built enigmatic nature of his character; in other words, I found they way they characterize him in this arc to be relatively bland compared to the earlier seasons of the show, and this entirely because of all the exposition they push about him.

This is the same issue I bring up in my incredible ratings blog about how Campfire Tales needlessly and reductively recaps the themes of Sleepless in Ponyville.