Talk:Magical Mystery Cure/@comment-76.182.111.223-20130214223132/@comment-15617-20130214231526

Basically really - the personalities and histories for all the characters are the same...their cutie mark/special talent, is apparently overwhelming compelling them, to do things counter.

However, here's the thing: happiness...obviously nobody is happy because they are doing things that truly aren't what they are "meant for", but they are doing it anyway....so what about Twilight?

As far as I can tell, she's happy - the whole idea of her being an Alicorn was her destiny feels iffy because she never portrayed the feelings the other friends are doing now.

We can debate how far we are supposed to interpret the cutie-marks, destiny, happiness and all sorts of things....and given the tone of the canon, it will all probably be simple and easy. However, even there, it does raise questions if Twilight was really 'meant' to do this all along (i.e. become a Princess) and her cutie mark is presumably representing that...because if the portrayal of the characters in this episode represent how a pony behaves when they are doing things counter to what they are meant for...then Twilight has certainly never shown any of the unhappiness the others do here.

Perhaps they'll take advantage of the whole Magic/Friendship duality...rather then her cutie-mark representing magical talent, it represents Friendship (just happening to have magic on the side), hence why she was never as bad as the others here...of course, even if she's destined to be a Princess of Friendship, that still leaves alot to be asked -- because even if she becomes super-happy when she becomes a Alicorn-Princess, she still never exhibited the sort of sorethumb unhappiness that the rest of the Mane 6 do here....even when she was by herself in Canterlot reading books -- oh sure, she's happier now, with her friends and probably will be even happier as a Princess....but again, she's never shown the sort of sore-thumb behavior the others are doing here if becoming a Princess was what she was meant for all along. Perhaps they'll go farther, again, in expressing that Twilight really was miserable and so on...but that's not how I ever perceived her - yes she's much happier and better now since she discovered the Magic of Friendship, but she was never as bad as the characters in this episode, if this is what being contrary to your destiny is like.

My prediction is that, really, the writers are going to gloss this all over -- I think really, the best bet is to just not think about it too hard, at least with regard to the canon...but of course, that's exactly what many don't want to do.