Talk:Discord/@comment-25559529-20161218190956/@comment-27578467-20161221090704

One possible explanation for the difference in our perspectives is that the latest season seems to be more contemporary with modern animation (like, within the last few years) compared to earlier seasons, and you seem more attuned to the style than me; in other words, I think I mis-read a lot of the dialogue just because I'm not used to how writers write these days. The last era of cartoons that I was jiving with was around the early days of Ed Edd and Eddy, and of course common parlance has changed a bit since then. Either way, I actually thought your explanation of Discord's line made sense, just in a context I didn't instinctively read when I watched the episode.

I suppose my deal with Discord's motivation is less of him being OOC (again for the reasons you point out) and more with the straightforwardness of it. It's not like him vowing to move heaven and earth to save Fluttershy would be out line, but it just seems pretty flat compared to how he's portrayed in other episodes, where it's made apparent there's a set of more selfish motives under the surface.