Unpopular opinion time

@Background Pony #11D7  
It’s those people who most need to be aware of what’s happened, I’d have thought.

Reforming Discord was the right choice and provided some great character development
 
 
said absolutely no one ever.

@Background Pony #B900  
Except, you know, most of his fans?
 
He’s too powerful to have as a recurring villain (at least without weakening him a lot) and De Lancie was on board.

@Background Pony #B900
 
So i’m nobody, then?
 
@Latecomer  

 
Which seems to be a consideration for a lot of villains’ reformations - if they can’t be beat, time to cooptate.

@Background Pony #B900
 
Except this nobody.

@Mildgyth  
Has some quite disturbing implications when compared to what happened to the powerless and cornered Cozy.

@Latecomer  
Okay, perhaps they should be made aware of the fact it happened as a precautionary measure, but I still think the traces of the actual content should be buried as much as possible for the sake of people waiting for an English release and is worried about encountering them.

@Background Pony #11D7  
Well yes. But it’s very hard for one person to stop another posting spoilers online.

@Latecomer  
He also seems too unpredictable and flippant to keep as an ally.

@PonyPon  
Do you mean in-universe, or from a meta perspective?

@Background Pony #B900
 
Hey, nobody here, him reforming kinda fits with him being a Q expy, kinda brings him on track to how that being was.

@Background Pony #B900  
His redemption was awesome, it was the episodes afterwards that were bad. And even then, Discord has some amazing appearances.

@GenericArchangel  
Any long-running character will have ups and downs. Which episodes are you thinking of here?

@GenericArchangel  
Discord doesn’t really have any episodes that I consider bad.
 
Only ones that come close are What about Discord and A Matter of Principals. Discordant Harmony is the best Discord episode if excluding Return of Harmony.

@Latecomer  
“Dungeons and Discords” and “A Matter of Principals” for the bad ones, and “Breakup Breakdown” and “The Beginning of the End” for the good ones.
 
@rdibp  
“Discordant Harmony” is okay. Never been a huge fan, but it’s for sure a good episode.

@GenericArchangel  
Dungeons and Discords is good. :/

Personally, apart from some outliers like Dungeons and Discords and Discordant Harmony, Discord got worse as time went on

@Prowl  
Season 9 has been pretty great to Discord so far.

@GenericArchangel  
Agree on MoP, but D&D was decent enough (by S6 standards). Now, What About Discord…
 
 
@Prowl  
The writing in general has mostly slipped - why should he be immune?

@GenericArchangel  
We can also put “Make New Friends But Keep Discord” in there cause I found his dilemma with Tree Hugger to be pretty relatable, even if he more or less forgot and neglected The Smooze throughout. Dungeons & Discords was really boring and unpopular opinion, but I hated him in The Beginning Of The End.

Is not that I have problems with he being reformed, but what bugs me is about how he remained as a powerful godly story-breaking character from the entire show.

@E-123  
Well weakening him might have helped, but I do think they mostly manage to write him out believably. (It helps that, unlike the Princesses, he is neither available nor responsible.)

@Latecomer  
Weaking him to have only 0.001% of his power in the end could have been a bit more interesting for his character.

@E-123  
I’d say that’s a bit much - he’s not as fun if he’s weaker than Twilight.

@Latecomer  
Thats just a saying. He would be weaked enough so he could live a more normal and comfy life with Fluttershy.