Talk:No Second Prances/@comment-26423071-20160506104147/@comment-25399466-20160507023346

Well, there are may ways to explain Twilight's behaviour.First of all, her attitude is probably about the same she would have had knowing Starlight befriended with Discord. Cause she know he is reformed, but he had not been brainwashed. He is still Discord. He always have an hidden agenda, he is not very considerate of others, so he could be not the best choice to be Starlight's first friend.Same goes for Trixie. Twilight knows she is not really evil, but knows she is egotistical and ful of herself. Put her with someone who is slowly building a still frail confidence in friendship, and is easy to see a disaster waiting to happen.One could ask why Twilight seems to trust more Starlight than Trixie, while Starlight did far worse things in the past. About that point it had to be said that, while not undertanding Starlight's actions, for Twilight is easy to understand Starlight's motivations (not by chance, her first planned friendsip lesson is a copy of what Twilight did in "Amending Fences"). Instead, for Twilight is much harder to understand Trixie. The two are too different. She can't understand her boastfulness, her aggressiveness, and the fact that Trixie seemed to have something personal against her, whilem from her point of wiew, Twilight did nothing to her (I may be wrong, but we have yet to see a really envious Twilight. Is a character's trait practically absent in her).About Trixie's powers, we know the show is not so consistent. The Trixie of "Boast Busters" is, bar Twilight, the best unicorn mage we seen in five seasons, until "The Cutie Remark" (the Starlight of "The Cutie map" is really not so proficient. She only uses a single, peculiar spell). In the few seconds of "Boast Busters" in which we see Trixie using her real powers, she uses a variety of spells bested only by Discord in the same screentime. Whiile, in "No Second Prances", she uses only the most basic unicorn spells.For the sake of continuity however, it could be said that is never really stated that Trixie is incapable to use real magic. It's only stated that she is better than Twilight at using it "only when I wear a soul-sucking evil amulet" (nothing new here. We know from "Boast Busters" that Twilight is a more powerful mage than Trixie), that she is better than Twilight at stage magic (she even practically affirms to be the best living stage magician, since she puts only a performer of the past ahead of herself), and that she is not capable to teleport herself (again nothing new. If she had been, there would not have been the need of the smoke-bomb trick for her exits).One could even say that, thus not being able to teleport herself, she knows the teleport spell (as we seen her teleporting a bunch of flowers in "Boast Busters"), infact she doesn't seem surprised when Starlight teleport her.