^ Twilight sounds like Celestia in that version.
Wylie wrote:Celestia isn't nearly the chessmaster everyone seems to want to think she is. She's wise, almost preternaturally so, but she's not
infallible. Which is why it kinda bugs me that everything that happens in these season-bookend adventures gets wrangled into All Just A Part Of Celestia's Master Plan™.
I guess the trouble with Chessmaster Celestia is that literally any happy ending turns into some insanely convoluted prophetic foresight.
Celestia sent Discord out, who failed, then sent Twilight out with an arbitrary restriction that didn't help her, but the day was saved because Discord backslid, Twilight wasn't captured with the others, her powers couldn't just be absorbed immediately, Discord was brought back in a bubble along with her friends, he was moved by her friendship,
and they didn't get trampled underfoot by Tirek while running off to unlock the box.
Or when Sombra showed up, why tell Twilight she had to do everything alone? Could she really foresee that Twilight would bring Spike, and she would choose the good of the kingdom over herself?
If Celestia has
that kind of freaky foresight, why would anyone ever attack Equestria? She'd have to be some kind of extradimensional supercomputer that calculates the optimal victory condition for every episode.
That idea that she has some sort of vague sense of fate or destiny is more appealing because she can still be wrong sometimes, even if the ponies ultimately succeed because she is good at picking competent underlings. And with a good poker face, she can still get away with pretending to be a pre-cog.