Talk:Twilight's Kingdom - Part 2/@comment-24092299-20140508003207

If the Rock Father summary is legitmate, the lesson is poor for several reasons.

1.) We already had this lesson. Princess Twilight Sparkle had a (3-minute) subplot about Twilight choosing between the responsibility of Equestria and her friends. Now it's basically the same thing, but with the word "fate" instead of "responsibility".

2.) The lesson is that sacrificing yourself for your friends is important. How does that give Twilight her key? Unlike the rest of the main 6, who got their key by demonstrating how important their Element is to them, Twilight does just the opposite, and chooses her friends over the magic. It seems kind of odd.

3.) How did her friends get captured in the first place? It would seem very likely that they would all stick together in these kinds of crises.

4.) The lesson is a really bad example. The thing I see in this "lesson" is that apparently, having friends is more important than saving the world. If she sacrificed her magic, that basically means that Tirek wins, because she had no idea that would make her key appear. Therefore, giving Tirek her magic and crushing Equestria's last hope to stop him is okay, because she would have been with her friends while Tirek is doing who-knows-what to the rest of the ponies with all of the magic in Equestria. Also, couldn't Tirek suck the magic out of the box?

I better not see problems like this in the actual episode, or my rating is going way down.