Talk:Starlight Glimmer/@comment-26313058-20160307002807/@comment-23858349-20160312002605

I'm not sure you understand how diverse people can be. "Pathetic" to you is somebody else's life. Moon Dancer and Starlight Glimmer both do seem to have serious mental issues.

Fluttershy must be pathetic to you as well because she has serious social anxiety issues and can't go out of her house for fear of certain things and is too afraid to sing in front of ponies. Is she pathetic?

Pinkie Pie's emotional happiness depends on whether or not her friends are happy. She has displayed amounts of Bipolar Disorder and downright Schizophrenia. Is she also pathetic?

Twilight Sparkle has dealt with heavy depression in the past and is also prone to be paranoid over certain things and is overly obsessed with checklists. Pathetic?

Applejack's brain turns off when family enters it. Bad character?

Now picture how far all the above characters have grown through the seasons. Twilight went mad and caused Ponyville to be eaten by creatures, made them want a doll and tried to solve a problem by "disaster-proofing" it. Fluttershy has grown too from being too afraid to even say her name to another pony to competing in the Equestria Games. Pinkie Pie literally went insane.

MLP has a long history of exaggerating its plots and character conflicts because of the time constraints of fitting them into 22 minutes. What we're seeing with Moon Dancer and Starlight Glimmer are new arcs. These characters are "pathetic" now, but they'll grow eventually to be great characters, just like Sunset Shimmer did.