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@09MurphyM  
Which still leaves the stupid problem of her not lifitng a hoof as a town is raided in front of her face and her friends are smashed through walls.
 
Just write her out in some way and it’d be fine. Have her be with Spike is a very very easy one.
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@Jarkes  
Understanding why something is bad does not make it better.
 
 
@Philweasel  
A well written story doesn’t require the reader to make excuses for it.
 
Being presumptuous has left you confused. Twilight not using her abilities fully has repeatedly frustrated me on the show. I just haven’t brought it up here because that’s not the topic of the thread.
 
 
@09MurphyM  
There was nothing they could say that would excuse Twilight standing idly by while her friends and the townsfolk were terrorized by the bulls. Then, as a final slap in the face, it was the bulls damaging a building that finally made Twilight act and that was after the bulls set fire to a barn!
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Okay, I guess.
@kleptomage  
The really infuriating part was how the bulls were turned into goofy and incompetent dumbasses on the next issue so the story and the c-c-c-lever plot twist about the law-abiding Twilight suddenly resorting to kidnapping and impersonation could work. Also, all of them are locked inside of a tiny wodden shack despite the previous issue showing them tearing apart entire buildings without any effort.  
Just make her eat a local delicacy and have an allergic reaction that disables her magic so she is forced to use her wits against the bulls’s brawns and this way you don’t even need to write her off.
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A well written story doesn’t require the reader to make excuses for it.
Being presumptuous has left you confused. Twilight not using her abilities fully has repeatedly frustrated me on the show. I just haven’t brought it up here because that’s not the topic of the thread.
 
I think the limits of her abilities are fairly well established at this point. I haven’t so much explained the plotholes as described what actually happens in the show.
 
Simply put, this comic is pretty accurate to the internal logic of the whole franchise, and if you don’t like that… well I’m not sure what to say to you. You might want to think Twilight’s an invincible archmage who can solve conflicts with a burst of magic, but she really isn’t. She’s pretty low powered on the fiction scale, and generally solves problems with friendship.
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Okay, I guess.
@09MurphyM  
And then she used her magic to immediately appoint herself as the judge, jury and executioner on the issue where the 3 unicorns stole Rainbow Dash’s wings, remember?  
They stole RD’s wings so Twi took their magic from them claiming they didn’t deserve it.
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@09MurphyM
And then she used her magic to immediately appoint herself as the judge, jury and executioner on the issue where the 3 unicorns stole Rainbow Dash’s wings, remember?
They stole RD’s wings so Twi took their magic from them claiming they didn’t deserve it.
 
Honestly I don’t really consider that issue canon. It was written by a transformers writers, it’s the only time she’s even touched pony, and it’s a really strange and out of genre issue in general. I really enjoyed it, but admit the characterization and tone is totally off.
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@Philweasel
 
>Transformers writer
 
That explains why one of the villainous pegasi is called “Decepticolt…”
 
Seriously, that just made me wince.
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Friend of mine is livetweeting the Micro Series and he just got done with Luna’s micro, and he made an interesting observation that it’s almost kind of a prototype for A Royal Problem.
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@Jarkes  
I remember wondering if that was supposed to be some sort of comment on them being TG or the like. Because I couldn’t think of a single other reason why they’d have such a odd for this series name.
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@soundtea
we know that Starswirl would probably test positive on a Chrysalis paternity test (referring to his blood).
 
Now I would love to see a story/comics issue/episode where everyone finds out that the returned Starswirl is technically the father/ancestor of all Changelings. Complete with the old grouch getting swarmed by excited Changelings yelling, “DADDY!” and Chrysalis showing up to hit him with a lawsuit for 1000+ years of unpaid child support.
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@soundtea
“Manehattan Mysteries”, “Don’t You Forget About Us”, “Ponyville Days”, “Ponymania XXIX”, “Rainbow Dash’s Very Bad Day”, “A Pinkie Pie Story That Pinkie Pie Kinda Sorta Remembers”, “Wings Over Yakyakistan” (shut up) and “Apinkalypse Now” I all really enjoyed.“Root of the Problem” had major issues, but also had some fantastic moments in between.
 
I also love “Ponyville Days”, “Wings Over Yak Yakistan” and “Root of the Problem”.
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Okay, I guess.
Well, the Sugar Prohibition comic was yet another story where Ponyville (minus Twilight) drink from the cretin juice so everything could happen.  
The art was nice, but it’s sad to see it wasted on such an awful story.
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@Anonycat
 
The title itself just reeks of “We’re so out of ideas, let’s go with something that goes against the very theme of the show”.
 
I’d pass, but of course I’m gonna support my local comic store… ughh.
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@Background Pony #57F2  
The funny thing is, either he’s buying and reading them the moment they come out (which considering he hates them would be super weird), or he’s judging them based on the three preview pages available (which kinda invalidates any opinion).
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@EotD  
Yeah, but that involves effort none the less. He downloaded and watched the season 8 leaks as well I seemed to recall.
 
I’m just saying, he seems more enthusiastic about this stuff than me, and I like it. I don’t get around to reading the comics for weeks sometimes.
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Some of IDW’s most ardent followers are the people who hate them the most. Same for the episodes - people who swear they hate the show so much they will never watch the show again are always there, telling us what was wrong with the show, and attributing to the creators and fans of the show whatever evil intent is necessary to justify spreading their fowl mood
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