Unpopular opinion time

@Mikey  
Everyone immediately liked her. They all go to help her and she’s all amazing to everyone. Just because she’s not perfect doesn’t mean everyone else didn’t immediately think she was great and shit. That’s my view of the first episodes. The fuckin’ pacing is garbage and makes her seem like she’s instantly attracting friends from all goddamn corners. Yes, Pinkie makes sense. Sure, AJ makes sense too in a rustic, courtesy overexaggerated way, and that’s fine. Rarity and Rainbow and Fluttershy have no reason to follow her except “Welp, that’s the magic purple pony that the plot is following, so here we go!”

@rdibp  
“Mary Sue” is an extremely subjective value judgement. One fan’s Mary Sue may be another fan’s awesome woman action hero. Someone at TvTropes observed that “Mary Sue” is actually the reaction that fans may have to a work that “is unduly favoring a character by changing other characters or the environment in inappropriate ways. When the audience calls “Mary Sue” on a character, the author has shattered their Willing Suspension of Disbelief.”

I think most of y’all get too emotional too easily.

@One Trick  
A Mary Sue is no way subjective. A Mary Sue is a character that’s given all the powers, absolutely no one hates, and have no troubles at all in life. Things that Twilight isn’t
 
Also TvTropes is shit. :P
 
@Josh103  
NO! You’re emotional!!! >:U

@One Trick  
Sorry but when people call Twi a Mary Sue it really gets under my skin.  
It feels like an attempt to demean her as a bad character with no redeeming qualities.

@rdibp  
TvTropes is amazing.

This is an accurate depiction of my mood right now  

@Chrys  
I guess the fan forums side of it I hate.

@Mikey  
Oh, she has redeeming qualities. I just don’t like her being the amazing super great hero of Equestria that she’s basically considered to be in the show. Y’know, her having the Princess babysitter, her brother being captain of the guard. She’s the reason everything always works out, with a rare exception because of plot.

@Mikey  
Lemme help ya there~  

@rdibp
 
Yeah, TV Tropes is fun to browse and sometimes edit, but… avoid the forums.

@One Trick  
Everything always works out because if the show were to have an ending where all the bad guys win, that would be really off putting for the show.

“Mary Sue.”

@One Trick  
How do I know you’re not trying to bait?  
Considering your about me says “Don’t take any opinion stuff I say too seriously, I like messing around with what I feel are funny things to be a contrarian about.”

@Zeb
 
Lol xD

@Mikey  
Seems like someone knows how to check people’s profiles before getting incoherently mad. I’m very happy to see that.

So, this has been fun, but I have to say something:
 

The jig is up.

@One Trick  

 
Well you did a pretty good job. :P

@One Trick  
Oh….  
I’m sorry :x  
I get real defensive about this shit.

@One Trick  
You gotta try better than that.

@Mikey  
[Pokes Mikey with the “Twilight is worst pony” stick.]
 

REAL opinions:
 
Flash Sentry is actually overpushed and over emphasized in the movies, and I’m glad that Sci-Twi kinda sorta indirectly rejected him. I feel like Flash and Sunset should be friends, but that he shouldn’t be with any of the main characters just because it doesn’t feel natural to have his relationship stuff on screen anymore.
 
I wish Twilight had been a little slower to fix so many problems, but I understand that to begin with, the show’s pacing wasn’t really designed around it. So whatever.
 
Gilda, Trixie and Starlight have good development throughout their episodes. I won’t get into it because this is for _un_popular opinions.
 
I wish Sombra had gotten more screen time or felt like a real threat.
 
Rarity is still very egocentric, and I hate that a ton of her earlier episodes (not all, but many) were about her doing a lot of things for herself and it happening to work out in the end, like when she went to Canterlot and threw a week away without learning anything because it worked out in the end without anyone getting mad. With that said, “Art of the Dress” and “Green Isn’t Your Color” are fantastic season 1 episodes with her.
 
I’ll probably think of some more opinions later. You guys have fun lambasting me for these ones! I’ll be sure to keep my discussion friendly!

@Josh103  
I didn’t want Mikey to lose his shit too much longer, so I called it off early. Was hoping I’d get more people to trigger off of me, but it seems only a handful are around for the time being!

@One Trick  
So you still don’t like Sweet and Elite? :C