Season 7 Episode Discussion [Speculation, Discussion, Spoilers] (SPOILER YOUR LEAKS)

@PonyPon
Again, twilight is an introvert. We introverts don’t just doll out our personal information like pez.

“Hi! I’m twilight sparkle! My brother is shining armor captain of the royal guard! He’s dating my baby sitter princess cadence!”

See? Thats awkward as fuck.

@EotD

Star’s lines all indicate what her problem was.

Starlight Glimmer: And just like that, my friend was gone. His family recognized his magical talent and sent him off to Canterlot. I never saw him again.  

Spike: Well, why not?  

Starlight Glimmer: Because of his cutie mark! He got his, and I didn't! He moved on, and I didn't! I stayed here and never made another friend because I was too afraid another cutie mark would take them away, too!  

Twilight Sparkle: That's ridiculous. A cutie mark can't take your friends away.  

Starlight Glimmer: Not everypony's lucky enough to get her cutie mark at the same time as her friends!  

It really seems like her issues came from the timing of it all. Based on her flashback with Sunburst, she seemed completely unaware of how good she was with magic as a kid, since she assumed Sunburst was amazing, and whenever we saw her nonchalantly doing all this impressive magic without even registering what she’s doing, it looked like she thought she was just following Sun’s guidance.

@Hateot

I agree, but I’m also taking Starlight’s personality into account here. She honestly thought that he’d abandoned her, and season 6 reveals that he kinda did. Out of shame, he made no effort to contact her, and the whole thing left her too afraid to make any new friends.

Those moments where she was doing really powerful magic, she was doing them around sun and only after he demonstrated a spell or technique to her first, also they were always alone together. Since she herself honestly believed he was a powerful wizard, I can imagine her brushing off her own talents there as being due to how amazing he was as an instructor.

“When we were foals, Sunburst knew everything there was to know about magic. He always knew just what to do. And he was always there to help me. I guess it’s not surprising that Sunburst got his cutie mark in magic and… went off to Princess Celestia’s school.” Star is saying all of this sincerely while the episode shows clips of her clearly outpowering and overshadowing him.

Then after he left she never really showed off her magic until she discovered her cutie mark, and by then the damage was done and she thought he’d moved on.

“In these issues, Twilight and her friends are in pursuit of a mysterious new pony who’s erasing pieces of written history. As the issues play out, and we unravel the mystery surrounding this bandit — the answers are also teasing and tying into a big storyline in the upcoming season of the show. The “My Little Pony” team very kindly shared their stories and plans and opened up some opportunities for us to build into and out of what they have coming. Ultimately, we got to craft a really rich, fun, and ultimately meaningful story of our own — but they were kind enough to help us line everything up so that will hopefully be even more satisfying to fans of the show.”