Talk:Sunset Shimmer/@comment-3410511-20150201154502

Do you think Sunset Shimmer is like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde? We all know she's always been bad, it's just the side of her that's most dominant. But when she put on Twilight's crown, she turn into a raging she-demon. She became more aggressive and ruthless. It's as though she was turned into Mr. Hyde, her "inner demon". But after she was defeated, it's as though Mr. Hyde was ripped out completely, and Sunset Shimmer (Dr. Jekyll) is more compassionate, friendly, and regretting. I know she's trying well to become a good person, but is ridding herself of her evil side a good thing? I believe her bad side had her confidence, her drive, and her cunning. She has been, as we say, "off-balance". The Magic of Friendship didn't turned her good, it ripped her in half.

It's like that episode of Star Trek, "The Enemey Within". A transporter malfunction splits Captain Kirk into two people – one good and one evil, and neither capable of functioning well separately. In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, all Jekyll ever did was finding ways of getting rid of Hyde. But I do think that was the right course to take. Instead Jekyll should have found a way to confronting Hyde, and settled on a to live with together in peace, only then Hyde would've learned to understand Jekyll's concern. For Hyde represents the wild and uncontrollable impulses and desires deep within every man's heart, while Jekyll represents to restrictions and moral knowledge of the human conscience.