Talk:Friendship is Magic, part 1/@comment-25559529-20170731013226/@comment-25559529-20170808043450

@Herculine

To an extent, I agree that three episodes in a season between the opener and finale are a pretty compressed time to show Starlight's progression before she needs to save the world, but the issues I have with it is how friendship is not treated as a simple social thing like it was when Twilight experienced it.

I mean, there's a whopping checklist to reunite with Sunburst (Twilight's decision, not Starlight's). This... is dumb. There's a reason why Celestia never had a deadline for Twilight's friendship reports. (i.e. moments of friendship can't be manufactured) This isn't a healthy way to introduce a somewhat psychopathic and socially out of touch person like Starlight to friendship.

As for No Second Prances, like I said, it kind of came close, but putting a deadline on it (and the purpose of the dinner) is also out of the realm of established characterization for Twilight. Aside, from that and trying to redirect Starlight to specific people to be friends with, Twilight didn't actually do anything wrong that time.

Then in ELTSD, there is once again a deadline. What's wrong with Pinkie/Rainbow/ANYONE going "Hey, Starlight want to help me with this activity that just so happens to do with my schtick/archetype?" Why does it need to be a "friendship lesson"?