Talk:My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Friendship Games/@comment-7345250-20150927162625/@comment-10390252-20150927172501

Wow, I actually disagree with almost everything you said in the 'bad' and 'ugly' categories. This post isn't intended to be an attack on you. I'm just trying to illustrate how our understandings of the same aspects of the film differ.

Seriously? You don't understand how an ostracised, marginalised and bullied 16-year-old girl could have a psychotic episode when suddenly given the powers of a petty god?

Try to understand the character of Sunset Shimmer. Everything she has done wrong in her life has been about her need to be the top and the best. This is something that she's still confronting in many ways so it's easy to see how she might be might be bent out of shape by having everyone relying on her and (in her own eyes) failing to live up to that. Given her more aggressive nature, losing her temper with Twilight's painful naivette and unworldly irresponsibility was quite in-character.

When you consider the underlying message of the MLP franchse and think about the character of Twilight Sparkle more carefully, you can understand why, at the climax, the sorta-antagonist would value an extended hand of sisterhood above all the power and position in the world.

But... yeah, the Shadowcolts are mostly wasted, primarily due to run time issues. I certainly hope that we see more of the Shadowbolts in the future. Similarly, the songs don't match those of Rainbow Rocks (although it would have been an enormous task to do so).