Talk:My Little Pony Equestria Girls/@comment-4744245-20140404184500

Analyzing Sunset Shimmer's plan, I realize that, while flawed, she is very smart in carrying it out.

Considering what she was going to do, we can guess that her original plan was (as flawed as: Twilight just happens to be in the Crystal Empire the day the portal opens with her element of harmony), take the Crown with Twilight's Element of Magic, replace it with a fake lookalike, get back to Canterlot High, run for princess of the Fall Formal unopposed, put the Crown on, transform and control everyone at the dance (the whole school in the same room at the same time) and cross the portal with them as her personal army (how the hell she was going to beat Celestia, Luna and the whole Royal Guard is beyond me).

Now, let's see how Sunset Shimmer's adapts her plan as things happened: Fluttershy finds the crown and she takes it to Celestia, who gives it to Luna for safekeeping. This really puts no changes on Sunset Shimmer's plan.

Twilight crosses the portal, finds her and now tries to get the crown by running herself as Princess of the Fall Formal. Sunset Shimmer counters this by trying to make Twilight a laughing stock in school using that embarrasing YouTube video. The Human Mane 6, thanks to Rarity's plan, manage to turn this arround with the Cafeteria Song.

Sunset Shimmer then tries to frame Twilight for tearing down the school gym's decorations for the dance. She does scold Sinps and Snails for going overboard, because she needed the dance to happen (crown, mind control, army, crossing the portal). So we can determine that she wanted to have Twilight disqualified, run unopposed again, and be crowned at the dance per her original plan.

This is folied again by Flash Sentry finding the pictures as fakes.

After this fails, then and only then does Sunset Shimmer resorts to direct action such as stealing Spike and asking for the crown by force. And when that fails because of Twilight's determination, she fights Twilight for it and steals it.