Unpopular opinion time

@DragonBoi471
That was what I said… :V

@DragonBoi471
Agreed, just when I talk to most people their responses tend to be “Daybreaker? Who?” Before I post an image of her where they realize.

We need more Fallout Equestria art. Shido?

@Ponephilia
And Dyx?

Dyx in my opinion is a well don’t parody, but again more people seem to know Nyx than smoking biker filly .
As for Fallout Equestria art, there can never be too much

I mean, I doubt we were ever going to get Evil Celestia, or at the very least, see what would happen if she got Nightmare Moon and I don’t think the show needed it. Daybreaker was more or less a “What if?”. And really for as little screentime she had, they sure as hell made use out of it

@Kiryu-Chan
Without a doubt. Still a shame they effectively threw away a good design of a villain

@Ponephilia
Yeah it would have been nice to see more of her somehow.

I’d like to think it could be a way to show Celestia’s own insecurities. Perhaps growing up to deal with the responsibilities as a princess and if IDW is right, her ego when she started out.

@Cosmas-the-Explorer
I was just thinking that maybe if she was an entity for the Pony Of Shadows, that he would have played onto each pony’s fears while others would have guided each other to overcome their own. It might would have made that episode a bit better but what’s done is done

@Ponephilia
Yeah that would have awesome.

Amazing how that episode could look so cool with Pony of Shasows but be so underwhelming.

As well as Starlight being the only voice of reason.
Starlight: Don’t you think that something seems off about returning the Pillars?
Twilight: Omg I want to see Starswirl!
Surprised Pikachu face when returning the Pillars also brought back the reason why they willingly banished themselves

@Ponephilia
That episode sucked

@Mr.Myoozik
Agreed. Basically Nightmare Moon’s distain for ponies not liking the night but instead “muh feewings hurt because I am overlooked” (without an actually good reason)

@Ponephilia
I felt like I was watching a changeling pretwnd to be Twilight.

Twilight I feel is way to responsible and moral to do something like that because of her fangasm for Starswirl.

If anything I feel like Fluttershy or Starlight would be the ones to do this behind Twilight’s back. Not out of fangirlism but because they would think it would be kind to do so.

@Ponephilia
That and Twilight took a hit from the dumbass beam just so she can see her husbando

Just like in the movie (:
Speaking of which, did anyone see the initial problem in the movie to be rather weird, with how an entire invasion force was just able to take Equestria by surprise (besides heading to one of the most important Equestrian cities and having to get from the Storm Isles to the center of the kingdom)?

Who knows? Maybe it was a changeling (could explain why the Mane Six couldn’t defeat the Pony of Shadows by themselves).

But wait, if that’s the case, then where’s the real Twilight? X-Files theme

@Ponephilia
No, I never considered that to be an issue

@Ponephilia
In two episodes? Thought it should be longer.

@Ponephilia
And then there’s like evil evil versions in an alternate universe.

@Ponephilia
I may not like Ending of the End, but it’s what you said, what’s done is done.

@Cosmas-the-Explorer
What if Twilight also had no idea the Pillars intentionally did it to keep Stygian away?

@Ponephilia
Both the movie and Shadow Play were underwhelming for me.

The Movie particularly suffered from pacing issues, and from being placed as far forward in the timeline as it was. Fluttershy especially could’ve been captured in Canterlot, and absolutely nothing would’ve changed, for how few lines she had, and in fact it would’ve been cool if she’d managed to befriend multiple guards just from being nice to them, offscreen.

It also didn’t help that Twilight’s spell variety was seriously limited; Cadance was the only one to use a shield spell (or really, the only alicorn to act half-competently in that siege, because she didn’t know it wouldn’t work), and no one teleported when they logically can, to escape.

Shadow Play hardly pretended the problem couldn’t be solved in some way, just the right way to go about it. I think the latter had less logical holes in that regard.

80% of the movie was ultimately superfluous. Twilight and gang spend most of it trying to enlist the army of a allied nation to take on Storm King’s army, only to fail but still beat the Storm army anyway. After the Mane 6 fell off the waterfall they legit could’ve just climbed back up to Canterlot and won anyway, shaving a good 40 minutes off the movie.

I thought the movie was fine, not great and not terrible

I think Daybreaker was well utilized being literally not real from Starlight’s nightmare. Don’t get why people take Daybreaker so seriously when she’s only from a dream. Do people treat Evil Pie Hater Dash the same way as well?

I feel like the same thing happened to the Simpsons movie, they wanted to attract a new audience and it ended up being a strange mix of ideas & all pass quickly.