Talk:Episodes, films, and shorts/@comment-26973802-20131022180514/@comment-26973802-20131024025805

...from the sound of things there WILL be a new villain. I guess I underestimated the writers when given the chance to work to their full potential.

I think the Nightmare Moon thing is still a flashback, except Celestia isn't sending Twilight into it, Twilight enters it while "discovering the secret of the Elements of Harmony". Because this new villain wants to destroy everything, Nightmare Moon wanted to take over Equestria, bring in eternal night, and, according to Lauren Faust, "usher in an era of evil". Which would put this villain on the same level as Chrysalis, because she's out to cause destruction, feeding off love is how she gets the power to do it. King Sombra was more evil but he didn't intend to destroy Equestria, just enslave the Crystal Empire and kill or trap anypony who could be a threat to him.