Talk:The Cutie Re-Mark - Part 2/@comment-26944486-20151201163600/@comment-53539-20151202150342

Am I the only one who picked up on that Twilight had to discuss the best course of dealing with Glimmer before they truly "befriended her". This was the first time the friends did that for a pony.

The way I see her redemption is, they had no choice this time. With Discord, they had a choice, he could have stayed stoned forever. With Glimmer they couldn't just let her be on her merry way. If they let her go nothing changed. Sunset was redeemed but had to turn to friendship for protection, and because she didn't mean for anything that happened to her to have gone that far. Gilda, was never so much a villain as she was was ignorant to anything else due to her culture. Diamond Tiara was fed up with being bossed around by her mother, so her going over to the "good side" was a rebellion against her family. (note; I still maintain in that last scene when she ran to the school house, had her mother not come out and told her off for being with the CMC, she would have told how much of a failure Pipsqueak was and would not have changed at all).

This was a friendship out of necessity, she was a powerful unicorn with talent on par with pre-alicorn Twilight, one who gave Alicorn Twilight a run for her money in the process. So I kinda accepted this time, the rush was not to let her stale. If Glimmer had simply gone on her merry way, she would have been left alone again. And it wouldn't be long before she'd consider what Twilight said was wrong because nothing would have changed.