During the events of The Cutie Re-Mark, Starlight Glimmer’s entire character is flushed down the toilet. All of that build-up towards figuring out why she was doing all of what she was doing was made nonsensical from how childish and unbelievable her actual backstory was.
It isn’t made much better during the last few minutes of part two, where she completely gives up on her entire goal at the drop of a hat, gets forgiven of all of her crimes without any real logic, and is even put into the main cast as an important character. I’m sorry to say it, but that made me feel nothing but hatred for her.
During the events of The Cutie Re-Mark, Starlight Glimmer’s entire character is flushed down the toilet. All of that build-up towards figuring out why she was doing all of what she was doing was made nonsensical from how childish and unbelievable her actual backstory was.I’ve always been baffled by the whole “her background is unbelievable” argument. We didn’t get much information with the finale, but they really fleshed it out in Season 6 and it makes sense. She had crippling self-doubt, difficulty learning magic as a child, and her one real friend suddenly up and abandoned her. No wonder she stopped trusting anyone. Her town was an attempt to deal with her own fear that people would just leave her, by using cult tactics to make sure they wouldn’t. The whole cutie mark thing was just her own mental gymnastics to justify it.It isn’t made much better during the last few minutes of part two, where she completely gives up on her entire goal at the drop of a hat, gets forgiven of all of her crimes without any real logic, and is even put into the main cast as an important character. I’m sorry to say it, but that made me feel nothing but hatred for her.Really? I mean, her goal at that point was really to get back at Twilight. Once she realized that was actually going to make things worse… she still considered going through with it. She had to be talked down, and convinced to take a chance by trusting the person she’d been trying to destroy. I don’t call that “at the drop of a hat.”The ending montage was a rushed resolution… but it’s a montage. She wasn’t reformed instantly, it’s meant to depict her trying to improve over time. And then we got Season 6, to actually see her try (and sometimes fail) to be better.As for being forgiven… it’s Equestria. Despite what she did, forgiveness is pretty much their go-to for dealing with problems. It’s only people who refuse to reform & keep trying to hurt others that get locked away.
The ending montage was a rushed resolution… but it’s a montage. She wasn’t reformed instantly, it’s meant to depict her trying to improve over time.
The ending montage was a rushed resolution… but it’s a montage. She wasn’t reformed instantly, it’s meant to depict her trying to improve over time.It doesn’t really change the fact that she received forgiveness and redemption much quicker than Discord, while also doing far less to earn it. (And by that I mean, well, pretty much nothing.)
On top of that, the montage irks me because it’s twice been used as an extremely lazy way to imply a positive relationship with Starlight and the Remane 5. And yet, there isn’t really any reason to believe she has any respect for them. That she still doesn’t see them like she sees pretty much everyone else: as tools that exist to serve her whenever she needs it.
@Masque RaccoonIn the context of the season five finale being as rushed as it was, Starlight’s backstory didn’t make any sense until season six, when people were already preparing to burn Starlight at the stake. THey took way too long to come up with the actual reasoning behind her backstory, when it would’ve been far more relevant to actually include it when it was most mandatory. Instead, Josh Haber decided it would be ‘more fun’ to waste almost the entire finale on fanservice for what few fans there were of previous villains, so they wasted all the time that they had to explain her backstory.
Also, to the people who assume Starlight is going to become an alicorn, I’m almost entirely certain that the team of whatever writers are left WOULD NOT DARE to do that. We have enough as is with the five we have now, we don’t need another one running around, macking a practical mockery of the series lore, and it definitely shouldn’t be Starlight Glimmer either since there’s NO WAY she can be trusted with such power.
I’m 99% sure that’s what they have planned for her
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