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"[@Brass Beau":](/forums/pony/topics/unpopular-opinion-time?post_id=4931884#post_4931884
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In the end though, it'd depend on who's writing it, really. If it were Meghan McCarthy writing it, I'd give her at least an 80% chance of winning... unless she liked Cadance enough to let her win/contribute enough to win, which I think she does like her as a character, since she had a decent showing in episodes she wrote/the Movie.
(I don't think we ever got a concrete answer for shields blocking mind control)
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[@Terminal Red":](/forums/pony/topics/unpopular-opinion-time?post_id=4931885#post_4931885
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You're probably right, she likely did make up that plan on the spot after transforming, for the reasons you said.
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[@Vivace":](/forums/pony/topics/unpopular-opinion-time?post_id=4931977#post_4931977
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EQG's lore was... always kinda lacking, between the Memory Stone being the only Equestrian magical artifact to get an explanation for how it got there, and the things like "some of the Storm King's stolen magic leaked into that world" (for something apropos to Spring Breakdown). It would be one thing if the alternate portal we saw was in Canterlot or something, where the storm was (which granted, they mentioned the possibility of there being even more), but it seemed to be in the Everfree or some other wooded area close to Ponyville.
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Generally you probably get more out of Equestria Girls if you're invested in the characters over lore and such, which there isn't anything wrong with, mind you.
[@Sadrai":](/forums/pony/topics/unpopular-opinion-time?post_id=4932266#post_4932266
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Amusingly, Starlight actually pulled a Boast Busters/Snips in To Change a Changeling, if you think about it, with the "lure Maulwurf so Pharynx can defeat it" plan being_*very_* similar to what Snips' plan was all the way back in S1, they just went wrong in different ways.
...Trixie didn't pick up on that being eerily similar because she admits she never learned from history in multiple episodes (that writer for A Horse Shoe-In, for having written only_*that_* episode in the series, really _*nailed_* the characters, between Big Mac, Trixie, Starlight, Spoiled Rich, and so on).
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> Trixie: So you messed up. Big deal. [hushed] Don't you ever tell another pony I said this, but even Trixie's made mistakes. [giggles] I know! The trick is to just move on and pretend they never happened.[/bq]
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> Trixie: In the Pre-Equestia Era, year thirteen twenty-two, Abraxius the Bold did... [muttering] ...ooh, a bunch of boring stuff... [muttering] ...for a really long time. Okay, I know history is important, but I never learned any of it, and look how I turned out.[/bq]
In the end though, it'd depend on who's writing it, really. If it were Meghan McCarthy writing it, I'd give her at least an 80% chance of winning... unless she liked Cadance enough to let her win/contribute enough to win, which I think she does like her as a character, since she had a decent showing in episodes she wrote/the Movie.
(I don't think we ever got a concrete answer for shields blocking mind control)
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[@Terminal Red
You're probably right, she likely did make up that plan on the spot after transforming, for the reasons you said.
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[@Vivace
EQG's lore was... always kinda lacking, between the Memory Stone being the only Equestrian magical artifact to get an explanation for how it got there, and the things like "some of the Storm King's stolen magic leaked into that world" (for something apropos to Spring Breakdown). It would be one thing if the alternate portal we saw was in Canterlot or something, where the storm was (which granted, they mentioned the possibility of there being even more), but it seemed to be in the Everfree or some other wooded area close to Ponyville.
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Generally you probably get more out of Equestria Girls if you're invested in the characters over lore and such, which there isn't anything wrong with, mind you.
[@Sadrai
Amusingly, Starlight actually pulled a Boast Busters/Snips in To Change a Changeling, if you think about it, with the "lure Maulwurf so Pharynx can defeat it" plan being
...Trixie didn't pick up on that being eerily similar because she admits she never learned from history in multiple episodes (that writer for A Horse Shoe-In, for having written only
[bq]
> Trixie: So you messed up. Big deal. [hushed] Don't you ever tell another pony I said this, but even Trixie's made mistakes. [giggles] I know! The trick is to just move on and pretend they never happened.
[bq]
> Trixie: In the Pre-Equestia Era, year thirteen twenty-two, Abraxius the Bold did... [muttering] ...ooh, a bunch of boring stuff... [muttering] ...for a really long time. Okay, I know history is important, but I never learned any of it, and look how I turned out.