Talk:Friendship is Magic animated media/@comment-27578467-20170316032036/@comment-27578467-20170316043837

The 'diminished' personalities I think is a good point, but for me it still doesn't get very close to any sort of mind control. I mean, I think 'brainwashing' could be loosely used to describe how she lied about the nature of cutie marks and the fact that she had her own, but even that connection, in my opinion, is a bit far. I suppose the only reason this bothers me to any degree is that the writing since the end of season five has built important parts of Starlight's character arc around her being able to use direct mind control, which seems to me to be a pretty fantastic capability that came quite out of nowhere.