by Fizzbuzz (?) » Sun Nov 29, 2015 3:56 am
Well, I just got to see this. I actually really liked it, too. Between this and Amending Fences, we've seen two drastically different ways that people can react when they've been wronged socially. In Moondancer's case, she became withdrawn and backed away from any sort of socialization, whereas here we saw someone who chose a more vengeful, more vindictive path in life. Given the circumstances, even though she's a magical unicorn, I can still sympathize with Starlight. She still feels like what a real human might do after making all the wrong choices in life, whereas past villains (a cursed princess consumed by her own jealousy, a god of chaos with absolutely no consideration for the desires of anyone other than himself, a magical parasite devoid of love, pure evil and shadow incarnated as a pony, and a literal centaur demon who escaped imprisonment in the underworld) have nearly all been too larger-than-life to feel relatable on any personal level.
The time travel didn't feel wrong to me. I mean, we know Equestria has heroes other than the Mane Six (see Daring Don't, for example). In these alternate timelines, is it not possible that some other pony or group of ponies was able to rise up and defeat some of these villains, but not all the same ones that Twilight and her friends defeated? That's how I saw it, at least, that in each of those timelines, they did not play out exactly the same as, but still perhaps initially similar to, the main timeline we all know and love. I'm still curious as to how that last world of death and emptiness came to be, though.
