I’ll just repost what Scyphi said on DA.
While I do understand your displeasure for how season 9 ended…I don’t feel like piling all the hate onto Celestia and Luna like this as a sort of “revenge” actually fixes the problems the finale had generated. It depends on how exactly you intend to proceed from here, of course, but you’re either going to just make the whole distraction with Celestia and Luna attempting to interfere here pretty much pointless to the greater story at best, or just make all those problems worst by also failing to learn the lesson here and making the same mistake punishing Celestia and Luna at worst.
Really, if this was all about calling out Celestia and Luna for that error in season 9, then there were better ways to do it than this. Personally, I think a far more effective way to achieve much the same points and still get you this major confrontation between them and Twilight like you’re doing here, would’ve been to not focus on the Mane 6’s attempts to reform the Terrible Trio at all, and instead kept the audience outside of the statue the whole time and focused on what Celestia and Luna were plotting in the meantime, give them the chance to give voice to their stances and justifications on the matter, let them have that chance to make their case to the audience before the audience can even know they were always wrong and that reformation actually was possible after all. It would’ve had so much more impact…than this fairly routine “we be reforming villains like we do y’all” schtick for most the comic then abruptly marred by Celestia and Luna veering waaaaay out of character to the point of exaggeration so suddenly and practically out of the blue it gives the reader whiplash…just to make a point or even, dare I say it, vent about how much another writer’s error irritates you so much.
I mean, I do get it–I have my own issues with the season 9 finale and would’ve also handled it differently myself.
But I feel this is so eager to vent that anger upon a perceived mistake that it’s failing to see it’s only repeating that same mistake itself in the process. So if that same mistake is only getting perpetuated…then what really has actually been “fixed” in the end?
I’m not sure how much more there’s to say on that front. The author’s mindset behind it has, more or less, reached its natural conclusion, and the rest is padding, icing on the cake.
I also find it pretty bad how the other five were dead silent up to that page, while the two of them were engaging in dialogue more apropos of a villain.