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Alright time to vent a little, because I'm getting cross eyed just trying to wrap my head around this.


 
For the life of me I can't come up with a theory on how mindcontrolling people who are supposed to be your friends - or if not that, then atleast the friends of your teacher's - is going to be justified with out the one responsible for it taking a dip in the insanity lane or being a sociopath to begin with.


 
I understand that she's still supposed to be inexperienced about friendship. That she first needs to make those mistakes in brainwashing and reckless magic usage and then learn from them like Twilight once did. But here, the thing is she's already been told-


 
No, actually... she's told **herself** that this kind of thing is not okay: _*"…And I guess my first instinct shouldn’t be to magically command ponies to act the way I want them to?"_

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Incase the last season's resolution wasn't enough to convince her of that.


 
Or why couldn't she ask them for help and if she did, why wouldn't they help her if it was for Twilight's assignment? If for somereason they _*refused_* (because the plot needed them to be jerks to make the story work) I think that's how they're going to justify this in the end. I just can't figure out anything else that makes sense after she was first told the whole cult indoctrination thing was wrong and she then _*herself_* concluded that using invasive behavior affecting magic on others isn't cool in _*No Second Prances_*.


 
I just wish they don't let her off the hook in the end with a "you-meant-well" pat on the back or telling her that doing bad things and getting away with them is a-okay because "we've all done bad things of this caliber before, and in this contexact bsamef corntext." That would be just stupid.

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[@Mojo":](/1255467#comment_5444515
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It's just not easy to sympathize or love a character with a personality like that, if we're being told she's a hero that people are supposed to root for.

Alright time to vent a little, because I'm getting cross eyed just trying to wrap my head around this.

For the life of me I can't come up with a theory on how mindcontrolling people who are supposed to be your friends - or if not that, then atleast the friends of your teacher's - is going to be justified with out the one responsible for it taking a dip in the insanity lane or being a sociopath to begin with.

I understand that she's still supposed to be inexperienced about friendship. That she first needs to make those mistakes in brainwashing and reckless magic usage and then learn from them like Twilight once did. But here, the thing is she's already been told-

No, actually... she's told *herself* that this kind of thing is not okay: _"…And I guess my first instinct shouldn’t be to magically command ponies to act the way I want them to?"_

Incase the last season's resolution wasn't enough to convince her of that.

Or why couldn't she ask them for help and if she did, why wouldn't they help her if it was for Twilight's assignment? If for somereason they _refused_ (because the plot needed them to be jerks) I think that's how they're going to justify this in the end. I just can't figure out anything else that makes sense after she was first told the whole cult indoctrination thing was wrong and she then _herself_ concluded that using invasive behavior affecting magic on others isn't cool in _No Second Prances_.

I just wish they don't let her off the hook in the end with a "you-meant-well" pat on the back or telling her that doing bad things and getting awy with them is a-okay because "we've all done bad things of this caliber and in this context before." That would be just stupid.

"@Mojo":/1255467#comment_5444515
It's just not easy to sympathize or love a character with a personality like that, if we're being told she's a hero that people are supposed to root for.