Talk:Princess Twilight Sparkle - Part 2/@comment-26973802-20141105015506

Here's what they should have done differently:


 * Have the Plunderseeds created by a new villain in the present day.


 * Have everything in the episodes stay the same (especially the flashbacks) up until they enter the Everfree Forest. Instead of the whole cragodile fight, move the facehugger fight to this scene. One tries to jump on Twilight, Applejack captures it, they tie the rest of them up, then Twilight kills the facehugger that attacks Pinkie.


 * Ditch the whole pointless "sending Twilight away" scenario, which was clearly done just for time, and have them get to the Tree of Harmony right away, where the villain is waiting. If they want to give him an origin (assuming it is consistent with the male/female pattern), have him explain it here.


 * An epic fight scene. Maybe Mane 6 try to fight him, maybe Twilight shoots a blast at the villain which instead releases Luna and she fights him, maybe Discord comes along and doesn't do anything until the villain attacks Fluttershy, enraging him to fight the villain. (time that could have been spent on this was instead used for the "sending Twilight away" thing). Anyway, while villain is distracted fighting Discord or whoever, then Twilight returns the Elements of Harmony to the tree, destroying both villain and Plunderseeds.

Unless they decided to break the pattern, Twilight's Kingdom would then have to feature a female villain, and therefore not Tirek, but that doesn't mean Twilight can't have a huge epic battle with her. If they were eventually set on Tirek (as opposed to choosing him only because they were out of ideas for new villains), he could be reserved for the movie. Also there'd have to be a male villain of Rainbow Rocks.

This would of course also mean that the villain wouldn't be seen until the final confrontation, but when you think about it, we really didn't see that much of Nightmare Moon in Friendship is Magic, only appearing at the end of Part 1.