Viewing last 25 versions of comment by MegaAnimationFan on image #2791467

MegaAnimationFan
Elements of Harmony - Had an OC in the 2022 Community Collab
Twinkling Balloon - Took part in the 2021 community collab.
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2020) - Took part in the 2020 Community Collab
Artist -

[@TOMNICE](/images/2791467#comment_9971256)
> It is a show literally teaching morals about love and friendship. Yet the finale decided to throw it out of the window. Of course people are mad about it.

To be fair that WAS kind of the moral of the finale. That friendship will prevail over the darkness even when all hope is lost as long as everyone bands together to put a stop to it. Because the only reason why the villains won is because the magic of friendship was lost and no one trusted each other for a while. It wasn't until they were reminded of unity is when they were able to triumph over evil. So with that in mind the moral isn't lost and is still there it's just not going the "everyone is friends now" kind of ending that lets face it would be kind of a bad moral to teach because a LOT of bad people simply don't want to change even if it's as clear as day that they're wrong or sometimes they're even proud of being terrible people for some insane reason. And I think it's clear that the three baddies here are suppose to be those kind of people


[@Macaroni C-Pony](/images/2791467#comment_9971403)
Maybe the show writers were tired of literally everyone complaining about "too many reformed villains" constantly and ignoring the nuances in said reformations, so they just kind of went back to just "defeating the bad guy" route that they've done in seasons 2 3 and 4. And to be fair they did show them almost had a change of heart earlier in the season and actively reject it deeming friendship as some type of "disease" in Chrysalis's own words with the other two agreeing. I think the heroes trying to reach out just for them to reject it again would be redundant and it was already kind of made clear that they had no intention of making a turn around even after defeated, especially Chrysalis (whom btw Starlight tried to reach out to her way back in season 6 because of her own experience paralleling Chrysalis's to an extent and she literally smacked her hoof away). Maybe Cozy Glow and Tirek could be a special case but they have a habit of manipulating others to act like they mean well just to backstab at the end every single time. The only reason they didn't do it to each other is because not backstabbing each other was the only way to get what they want. I dunno I think the show made it very clear that these three are beyond saving without bashing you over the head with it

I do kind of find it odd that after so much complaining and even shit talking the show over reforming villains so often, people still take an complain even when the writers finally take that to heart and do the opposite. It's like do y'all want villains to reform in this world or not?

WOW that was a wall of text, but I'm just trying to add a different perspective on this whole thing and show that there was thought put into the whole "chucking the villains" choice
No reason given
Edited by MegaAnimationFan