Talk:Episodes, films, and shorts/@comment-26863109-20141025044846/@comment-26973802-20141027050918

Here is what they could have done. With a new villain or with Chrysalis if she wasn't so dead.

Present day villain damages the Tree of Harmony, either by casting some sort of curse, physically attacking it, or creating the Plunderseeds in the present day. Provides conflict to the Mane 6 as they go into the Everfree Forest in Part 2. At the end, either Discord fights villain as a distraction (but screws around until villain attacks Fluttershy) or Rainbow Dash and the others fight villain until Twilight returns the Elements of Harmony to the tree, destroying the villain.

Instead, the Plunderseeds were created by Discord, the villain of Season 2, 1000 years ago and somehow the tree's magic has blocked them until now, did they ever say why the magic suddenly chose this moment to disappear? Without the Elements it remained for a thousand years, after all. Also, they did a completely pointless scene of the other Mane 5 sending Twilight away, which I'm sure was done for no reason other than to fill the 22 episode quota. Nightmare Moon was easily the highlight of this episode.

When they decided to reboot a G1 villain, look how successful that was.