Talk:Star Swirl the Bearded/@comment-11461452-20170313040622/@comment-24245960-20170419191739

After making my most recent comment in the similar discussion on Discord's page, a thought occurred to me...

Maybe we're having a bit of tunnel vision here. We're assuming that Star Swirl needs an epic commanding voice in order to live up to his legendary status, in which case Patrick Stewart would indeed be among the most logical choices for his voice actor. However...

What if, before he actually became the larger-than-life legend of Equestrian history, Star Swirl was one of those wizards who, despite his obvious magical genius, was absent-minded, eccentric and perhaps even a bit timid? If he was in fact such a character, then a much more logical choice for his voice actor in my opinion would be René Auberjonois.