Talk:A Royal Problem/@comment-27578467-20170719041327/@comment-27578467-20180220191348

I'm going to add one more thing less in the spirit of beating a topic or opposing opinion into the ground and more as an opportunity to practice writing and argument rhetoric, in something that probably should have started as a blog post but is now just the tail end of a comment string.

I think this is more what I had in mind about Celestia's experience: hers is a position of delegating others to perform a host of duties impossible for one individual to do alone. In other words, she's been in the business of relying on other people for a very long time and as such likely understands how important those people are. She apparently understands the need for a scribe, a scheduling advisor (Kibitz from Micro-Series no. 10), a captain of the guard, guards in general, someone to manage the Crystal Empire, and we assume countless others (such as the delegates from the various provinces as shown in Princess Spike). As someone whose job it is to delegate the expertise of specific tutors to specific students in need, I've quickly come to recognize how important their abilities are and how grateful I am for them, as I certainly could not work with so many students on so many different topics so efficiently without them. To me the writers have solidly established this same understanding as being a pretty natural pillar of her character for most of the show, so her seeming lack of such here comes across as quite out of character. I would say this change began to appear in season six and so it shouldn't feel so strange, but since I haven't watched those episodes nearly as much as the first five seasons it stills feels pretty jarring.