Mechanical Ape wrote:Oh, I missed that Dash had lost a wing in the Sombra-verse, I thought she'd just armored it up.
Since "Flim & Flam own everything" falls short of the other dystopias (dystopiae?), here's me brainstorming some better, by which I of course mean worse, scenarios:
- The Tantabus has, indeed, done its worst.
- Sunset Shimmer-pocalypse!
- Equestria covered in Discord's thorny vines.
- Ahuizotl-pocalypse!
- Greedy Spike the size of a continent.
- Nobody stopped the bats.
- Equestrian royalty crushed by ice cloud at Equestria Games; civil war in progress.
- Parasprite-pocalypse! Although the deserted world we saw could've been this for all we know.
- Siren-pocalypse!
- A civilization destroyed by newspaper gossip.
- Enchanted Rarity made everything! fabulous!
- Equestria covered in dragon smoke for 100 years, which has also made it a comfortable hangout for migrating dragons ...
- Trixie-pocalypse! No wheels.
- All Smooze, all the time.
- Wait, how did Mane-iac escape to the real world?!
- Diamond Dogs enslave everypony. Er, somehow.
- Way too many Pinkie Pies.
- Perpetually un-wrapped-up winter world, with the Windigoes in full force.
- Diamond Tiara-pocalypse!
The sheer number of potentail apocalyptic threats Equestria faces rivals even G1 Pony
Some respect to Celestia for getting most of them at least, if we believe she had to say, stop Nightmare Moon in the Sombra storyline, etc.
I'm not sure if I should say I like it, say I thought it was just a tad too mature and violent for the intended audience, or if the pace and storytelling was just a bit off. The AUs we saw were fascinating in there own way, as bad as they were, they added so many tidbits that left me wondering, like in the NM timeline, how did Rarity become Nightmare Moon's designer, and why was she suddenly anti dragon? I sort of wanted them fleshed out but...that really wasn't the point of the episode.
The "I could do better!" annoying would be fanfic side of me sort of wishes Twilight spent much of the episode dealing with a single bad timeline, say with Nightmare Moon in a war with Sombra and Chrysalis, with each side about to release Discord and Tirek respectively and end everything in a nuclear war analogy and whoop I just went super dark there

Actually, I was strangely attached to the idea of Discord not being affected by the time changes and being the key to fixing it. Just imagine an ending where Celestia returns, Luna frees herself from NM, the Mane 6 actually get together again (complete with AU non-alicorn no friends Twilight) and seems to end with a good 'starting point' for a new timeline before Twilight gets history put right.
Anyways, Starlight's problem being mundane doesn't really bug me. I can see a small incident putting her down the path of developing her philosophy, and from there, you start a town, get really invested in it, and then it is taken away. It's less that one lost friendship equals her justifying destroying the world, more, one lost friendship sending a person down a bad path.
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