Talk:Cutie mark/@comment-69.135.212.112-20110618214359/@comment-98.92.217.120-20110628102716

This is what I keep thinking. The whole "you'll find your place in life eventually, it'll just happen on its own, you can't force it so don't try" seems really, really pat. Granted, this is a cartoon about a magical fantasy paradise, but if there really was some physical law in Equestria that made all stories end happily like that, then all the inhabitants look pretty silly for actually worrying about things like dragons and parasprites.

It would be interesting to see a story about an adult pony who's yet to discovered any special talent and eventually grown bitter and given up on themselves. Don't know if the show could handle that, though; even with a happy ending in the episode, and even with the moral being that it's never too late to find your purpose in life, the basic theme would be unavoidably dark.