Talk:Twilight Sparkle/@comment-26973802-20130401054610

OK maybe this has been answered before, but why is Twilight becoming an alicorn such a big deal? Some say it's because of more alicorns besides Celestia and Luna, some say it's because of her princess status (Twilight Princess!), at least there seem to be more who aren't raging about it now.

She won't have to leave her friends and her personality doesn't change, and she didn't seem to hate the transformation, nor did her friends. It was nothing but positive for her as far as we know. As opposed to... if I have to mention Tony's name one more time... and that's on top of killing some of my favorite characters

It was set in stone for quite a while and changing that plan wasn't one of the things they'd go out of their way to do for us. (Again, as opposed to 24 when they intended to bring a fan-favorite villain back in the final two seasons, but decided against it realizing how much we wanted her to return. And by no means do these 24 comparisons mean it's a bad show, quite the opposite despite all that)

Best I can gather is, fear of change. Which is ironic considering MLP is different than any other show in the world you can think of, and you sorta undergo a transformation when you watch it for the first time, usually for the better