Talk:Twilight Sparkle/@comment-5002336-20140302154813/@comment-26973802-20140306234357

I know they're just fine with making new one-shot villains (the Mane-iac could have been a good two-part villain) but they could have done a lot better in Princess Twilight Sparkle. There seemed to be three purposes for this episode:

1.) Show Nightmare Moon and Discord's first defeats, as well as establishing Nightmare Moon to be as dark as Chrysalis and Sombra

2.) Show Discord as the "not-always-reliable ally"

3.) Begin the "Mystery box" arc

So, here's what they could have done: Introduced a villain character like Chrysalis and Sombra. Had him (keeping up the male/female pattern, since Sunset Shimmer was last main villain) damage the Tree of Harmony somehow. Thus causing the Everfree Forest invasion and creating vines like the Plunderseed Vines, including those facehuggers. Or, have new villain create the vines in present day. Twilight returns Elements to tree, it destroys both the vines and their master.

What told me they were out of new two-parter villains was a.) That instead of having a new villain create the vines, they had an old, currently-reformed villain create them in the past. b.) They never said why the tree's magic suddenly stopped repelling them after being active for a thousand years. I guess I was expecting another Chrysalis/Sombra, although Nightmare Moon played the part well in flashback