I don’t know what’s so hard about asking a question. Sounds pretty easy to me.

Also, what “overcoming differences” are you even talking about? The six them became friends with no issues in a day.

It seems more like they had to make up a reason later on the spot to justify them using the rainbow laser since them actually becoming friends was conflict free.

In their defense, stygian did steal all their stuff without asking. I’m not saying they should have judged him so quickly, but he didn’t Make things easy.

It was because despite their various differences they still managed to come together. Even more so since they were of completely different species. It’s not really lazy writing when similar circumstances resulted in the Mane 6 coming together.

Pretty sure people who don’t care when you suddenly aren’t around and are quick to assume the worst of you are not your friends.

Yeah, and the reason was because they were the main characters of that season. Even though the premiere is far from perfect, we at least got a real reason why the Mane 6 specifically were worthy by them being the six who examplify the six virtues that fuel the power of Harmony. However, there was no reason why the Tree chose the Student 6 over literally anyone else. And no, being better at friendship isn’t a real reason. It’s arbitrary and lazy writing.

How were the pillars shitty?

Not really, it was established that the tree of harmony choose the the student six for a reason, it wasn’t just random

Yeah, I don’t call a guy who didn’t know friendship even if it bit him the ass and a group of shitty friends being the source of the Elements of Harmony and the Tree of Harmony as pretty well done.

Nor was it when the very concept of the Elements was completely abandoned in Season 8, where literally just being friends is now enough to shoot rainbow lasers. Really makes the series premiere rather insignificant when we now know that Celestia could have grabbed literally any random group of friends to use the power of Harmony.