@Background Pony #0710  
Okay… but in a world where the sun and moon are moved by sapient beings, how would 800 years of intense sunlight in one area not affect the rest of the world?

Maybe Ahuizotl wanted to reactivate an ancient spa or sauna.
 
Then again, he should put the rings back together and lend them to the province of Whinnysota.
 
March Gustysnows: “Still cold here, don’tcha know.”

@Background Pony #A412  
I was with you until you said “entitled” and knew you were just buzzwording at this point.

@Background Pony #A412  
Thanks Jim.  
Too bad literally anyone could write a better season at this point.

I mean, the entire point of the episode was that we only ever had Daring Do’s word to go on that what Ahuizotl was doing was wrong. There’s literally nothing that can prove what he was doing here wasn’t exclusively limited to Tenochtitlan as an attempt to stop treasure thieves from stealing any more artifacts.
 
No but go on, please continue with all of your cringey neckbeard conspiracy theories about how the writers actively hate the show and have never seen a single episode and are out to ruin it on purpose by changing the oh-so-sacred canon of a D-tier recurring character, or how a bunch of entitled fanboys with literally no writing experience whatsoever are somehow “better” at it. JFC.

“Just kinda write whatever and we’ll find a way to jam it in there somewhere, Nicole.”

@Background Pony #39E0  
And yet when I point out how bad a Spike episode written by Josh Haber screws up the continuity, I’m branded as a heretic.

Continuity can be a bitch sometimes

@Background Pony #DF34
 
And yet, Daring escaping the “deathtraps” was to the point of being a cliche given their ineffectiveness.
 
Perhaps in hindsight, Ahiuzotl was trying to scare Daring off.

Read that as “800 years of unrelenting, sweltering heat that will keep outsiders from plundering the valley I protect” after this episode.

I begin to understand why everyone is so upset that they rehabilitate every villain of the show, with Caballeron I don’t see so much trouble (Maybe now that he and Daring work together fans can ship) but the problem was to make Ahuizotl look like a good guy, who is not bad but does his job to protect the jungle and its artifacts that Daring and Caballeron steal, and worse part that he used an artifact that prevents him from lying, the problem is that in his previous appearance he proved to be a villain by wanting to use Scorchero’s rings to condemn the world to 800 years of intense heat, which would clearly destroy the jungle that is supposed to protect, and this was not a version of Daring Do since the Mane six were right there.
 
It is incredible that even in a successful show like MLP continuity problems also occur, reason why the new scriptwriters also pay attention to old episodes.

Can’t we force writers to actually watch the show before attempting an episode?
 
They clearly don’t want to do that of their own volition.

There’s no need to bother with trying to make up explanations for this. Just call it what it is. An asinine retcon.

Okay, but even head canoning your way past that, he still took waaaaaaay too much pleasure in leaving Daring Do to a painful death.

It wouldn’t be the first time some writer took things in a different direction without ever checking the source material.

@Background Pony #A3B3  
He’s doing to protect his job. What more do you want?

@Background Pony #D65B  
I like how you brought up actual lines from actual episodes and everyone is calling you out on headcanon.

@Background Pony #D65B  
Okay, but how does that explain why he’s doing any of that in the first place?
 
 
@ThomasFan45  
That doesn’t make the writing less dumb. In fact it makes it more so because fans have to put in so much effort to explain what writers didn’t bother to.

This is amazing there are still people who will cling to and protect the dumbest idea spawned in the show, that doesn’t make any sense, breaking any logic established in previous seasons.  
This way you only show how you love writers and how you hate MLP:FiM.

@Background Pony #D65B  
Exactly.
 
A well thought-out theory or headcanon can justify even the dumbest writing decision.

@Background Pony #2A2C
 
Makes sense.
 
If y’all recheck the transcript for Daring Don’t: the magic rings, the dark tower, control of the Fortress of Talacon, etc. was all limited to Tenochtitlan.
 
“You’re dooming the valley to eight centuries of unrelenting heat!”
 
“You know what’s at stake here! Ahuizotl has sought control of the Tenochtitlan Basin since book three!”
 
Now we know his motivation for doing so.

@Background Pony #2A2C  
Or maybe the ‘other guardian creatures’ he mentioned made him do it to prevent anymore artifacts from going missing.

Probably went through extreme measures to make sure nopony stole the artifacts would’ve made sense.

 
This hurt my brain