Talk:The Cutie Re-Mark - Part 2/@comment-4905253-20151201063643/@comment-10390252-20151201095454

The odd thing is this: I've never seen that particular argument presented except as a strawman for the poster to knock down. No review I've seen said that redeeming Starlight was wrong. The only opinion I've seen is that forgiveness was given too easily and that her change of attitude and redemption should have been spread out more rather than just popping up seemingly from nowhere in the last reel of the episode.

The only person I've seen who's been agitating for Starlight to be punished is a fan-writer on FIMFiction who has largely hated on every major meta-plot development since Magical Mystery Cure and whom I'm increasingly sure is only still watching the show because he wants to have subjects about which he can write blogs about how he is so much smarter than the show's writers.

Personally, I'm on the record for saying that:


 * 1) Starlight's change of heart was too rushed;
 * 2) There needed to be some moment of redemption when Starlight proved beyond doubt that she had repented.

I also would have had only one alternate future rather than so many. Those just made the story scrappy and meant that none of the villains or their alternatate futures could be properly developed.