Talk:Princess Celestia/@comment-30321234-20161025160454/@comment-24908786-20161110133201

They took a big risk having the finale focus on Starlight and her team of reformed villains compared to how previous ones had the Mane Six saving the day whenever the Royal Family were in trouble because of the villain.

They raised the ante here by having the Mane Six be held hostage as well as the Royal Family this time around. Hopefully, it is only a one-time deal, but I would not put it past the writers to keep making the Royal Family the ones in need of rescuing in most season premieres/finales.

Celestia really got the short end of the stick in To Where and Back Again after helping save the Crystal Empire back in The Crystalling and getting her own Crystal Pony form out of it. She's nothing more than exposition and the MLP version of Princess Peach lately in the series...