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She had made several mistakes in A Canterlot Wedding (namely, not brainwashing Twilight when they were alone together), but I can’t fault her for not foreseeing Cadance and Shining doing some ass-pull deus ex machina attack together.
OtherFritz
Lunar Champion - Led the charge of major battles for the New Lunar Republic, bringing swift and crushing defeat to the forces of the Solar Empire (April Fools 2023).

In Treue fest
@AC97  
I’m afraid I can’t agree. Firstly, her plan required her to go along with Chrysalis’ plan, which means she must accept the same flawed assumptions that made it unworkable. While that isn’t necessarily her fault at first, she should’ve known that she can’t just take the elements after extracting so much information from Pinkie and adjusted her plan accordingly.
 
Another thing to consider is that Chrysalis sees the clones as disposable. She’s not going in herself, therefore she doesn’t need to worry if collecting the elements proves more dangerous than she anticipates. For Clone Twilight, if retrieving the elements proves impossible, her life is on the line, either from the elements’ defences or from Chrysalis disposing of them.
 
Her lack of subtlety also does her few favours. She conspires with the rest of the clones while Chrysalis is watching, then loudly and unnecessarily declares her intention to betray her while she’s in earshot less than a minute later. If she didn’t somehow exceed Chrysalis in raw magical power, she wouldn’t have lived to regret it, if only for a few more seconds.
 
Also, as you have noted, it’s entirely possible that the clones were ultimately impossible to control. However, Clone Twilight seemed to believe it was possible and that she could be the one to do it. While I can’t say for certain how much she influenced their later actions, the fact that she blames them for “ruin[ing] everything” seems to suggest that she couldn’t.
 
In summary, Clone Twilight should’ve learned enough from Pinkie to know that Chrysalis’ plan, and thus her plan, was doomed from the start. At that point, it would’ve been better just to run, which would’ve dramatically increased her odds of survival, let alone achieving some unspecified malicious aim. She could’ve taken the other clones with her if she still believed she could control them, though that may have presented it’s own difficulties.
AC97
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).
Non-Fungible Trixie -
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition

@OtherFritz
 
That’s just it: she was alive for less than a day, and she was already doing so well. She came across as someone who’s less prone to making mistakes out of egotism than Chrysalis. Hell, she was playing Chrysalis like a harp by preying on her desires.
 
But yes, the other evil clones were useless. I don’t know if you could stop them from being self-destructive, because they were of questionable sapience, since you could argue they couldn’t think about why they acted a certain way.
OtherFritz
Lunar Champion - Led the charge of major battles for the New Lunar Republic, bringing swift and crushing defeat to the forces of the Solar Empire (April Fools 2023).

In Treue fest
Of course. Since changelings become more powerful by consuming love, there is clearly no reason not to think that a pony could repel her entire invasion instantly with an unrelated form of love-based magic. Clearly anyone could have seen that coming.
 
@AC97  
Equestria probably is too, seeing as an egomaniac that isn’t as smart as she thinks she is (not that I don’t think she possesses above average intelligence) is likely to be something that’s ultimately easier to deal with than Mean Twilight would be…
 
I think you may be overestimating Clone Twilight. Her plan was severely flawed and she undermines it further by accidentally revealing her betrayal to Chrysalis, she failed to curb the other clones’ compulsive malicious and self-destructive behaviour and she lacks a great deal of basic knowledge about the world on account of having been alive for less than a day.
AC97
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).
Non-Fungible Trixie -
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition

Not to mention that one way or another, she started a chain of events that caused her defeat by leading Twilight to Cadance (doesn’t matter if she was trying to goad Twilight into killing her or something, it still went poorly), had the cave she threw the two of them in guarded with brainwashed bridesmaids, and she herself was surprised she could defeat Celestia with the temporary power boost she got from Shining Armor’s love, which it would’ve probably been smarter to engage Celestia by temporarily retreating and dogpiling her with her hive in that case, or something… and of course, doing nothing to restrain Twilight, caught up in her song as she was, which caused her own defeat, aside from having her back turned at a critical moment until it was too late.
 
She was really lucky she didn’t bite it in The Mean Six at the hooves of Mean Twilight, and Equestria probably is too, seeing as an egomaniac that isn’t as smart as she thinks she is (not that I don’t think she possesses above average intelligence) is likely to be something that’s ultimately easier to deal with than Mean Twilight would be… well, except for the part where Chrysalis is willing to work with other villains. That is a complication or three.