Talk:Starlight Glimmer/@comment-10390252-20151129081305

Personally, I have no problem with a redeemed Starlight Glimmer. Frankly, that was always seriously on the cards for such an obviusly pony villain. The problem I have is the manner in which it was done. Whilst a re-watch has assured me that Twilight's speech to her wasn't as bad as I initially felt, the climax still felt incomplete somehow. It didn't show why a mare who had resisted every previous plea, including one backed up by a vision of a devastated future, would suddenly respond to empathy at that moment.

Then there is Jim Miller's promised 'new paradigm'. That worries me. That worries me a lot. I've got a horrible feeling that we're going to have a Pokémon-style 'reset'. In other words, whatever we get in Season 6, it is only going to tangentially be 'Friendship is Magic'. It would be closer to 'Friendship is Magic mk.2' with a new cast and the current cast reduced to supporting roles.

Now, don't get me wrong. A whole new show with new characters might work; this strategy essentially saved the Pokémon animé, after all. However, it would be hard blow for those of us who love the existing cast and don't think that the storytelling or characteristion in Season 5 is in any way 'stale'.

No, I wouldn't have a problem with Starlight Glimmer being in the background, maybe as the driver of the problem of the week in a few episodes (perhaps needing some advice about something at Equaltown). From the start, I've loved the fan idea of Starlight going back to Equealtown and the secondary charcters from The Cutie Map becoming her combination of new best friends and probation officers (she was so close to Double Diamond that I suspect that the fans would very quickly start shipping them). Heck, I'd even have no problem with a few episodes where the Mane Cast are near-absent and it is entirely focussed on events at Equaltown.

However, one thing I'd really have a hard time accepting is Starlight Glimmer based in Ponyville and becoming the focus character with all the other characters being reduced to just supporting her story.