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Problem with Starlight is that she wasn't allowed to keep her cleverness or genre savviness or her silver tongued attitude. Most of what was kept was ignoranance to do doing a lot of semi awful things, while Villain Starlight was not SO much ignorant to what she was doing morally, she was just committed and spiteful.
In that sense, they sort of reintroduced Starlight's villainous traits as a reformed protagonist...backwards. Like the lack of good nice judgement is still there, but the personality behind has more naivete and less intelligence then the villain, the person herself, would have. Lot of disconnect.
Sunset went through several months of being looked down upon by everyone except the Humane 5 who slowly gave her tepid friendship, so its only natural the idea of EVIL themed schemes would be weakened after she saw her current inner self as a true demon instead of a predestined successor. She still comes up with innocnent or neutral schemes when she really wants something and shares her villain's temper when things make her really angry, like her memetic tongue lashing of Sci Twi. She isn't an angel. She still ambitiously confident in her own abilities, bold, and is used to taking care of things alone with a bunch of attitude like when she confronted the Dazzlings in the hallway.
I honestly never saw anything wrong with Sunset's reformed personality, she was someone confident enough in the world to be seen as someone like the 1000 year old Celestia chose as her first, and after her fall and redemption, its only natural she has an exceedingly healthy intelligence and charisma, even though her temper and frustration still gets out of control.
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Seems to me that having one element with such danger was a massive oversight from the originals. Not having anything to balance it easily leads to chaos, and it may be Twilight's own subservient nature that makes it less likely to happen to her when wielding it. Its like the Triforce having Wisdom and Courage being vague powers, but having the Triforce of Power be almost instant corruption. Seems that Sunset's existence was a way for harmony to balance things out, which is why many have theorized her element as either "balance" or "empathy".
Problem with Starlight is that she wasn't allowed to keep her cleverness or genre savviness or her silver tongued attitude. Most of what was kept was ignoran
In that sense, they sort of reintroduced Starlight's villainous traits as a reformed protagonist...backwards. Like the lack of good nice judgement is still there, but the personality behind has more naivete and less intelligence then the villain, the person herself, would have. Lot of disconnect.
Sunset went through several months of being looked down upon by everyone except the Humane 5 who slowly gave her tepid friendship, so its only natural the idea of EVIL themed schemes would be weakened after she saw her current inner self as a true demon instead of a predestined successor. She still comes up with innoc
I honestly never saw anything wrong with Sunset's reformed personality, she was someone confident enough in the world to be seen as someone like the 1000 year old Celestia chose as her first, and after her fall and redemption, its only natural she has an exceedingly healthy intelligence and charisma, even though her temper and frustration still gets out of control.
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Seems to me that having one element with such danger was a massive oversight from the originals. Not having anything to balance it easily leads to chaos, and it may be Twilight's own subservient nature that makes it less likely to happen to her when wielding it. Its like the Triforce having Wisdom and Courage being vague powers, but having the Triforce of Power be almost instant corruption. Seems that Sunset's existence was a way for harmony to balance things out, which is why many have theorized her element as either "balance" or "empathy".