By the way, that Hamadryad guy? He’s completely insane. He has said multiple times, 100% seriously, that Twilight should die to “make the world of the show right again.”

@Background Pony  
Twilight has an Electroencephalograph. However, she’s no neurosurgeon.

@Mayojar77  
My grandfather had oscilloscopes and other electrical testing equipment; he was an engineer, not a scientist.

@Googl9  
I’m not saying that because she’s intellectual, she must be a scientist.  
I’m saying that because she has sophisticated equipment most intellectuals will never see in real life, then she must be a scientist.
 
 
@Niggoslav_Krawczyk  
Pity how executives don’t like having their favourite characters turn out to be wrong, or that might actually make me hopeful for Twilight.

@Googl9  
Since we cannot edit our comment, let me rephrase my simile. Saying Twilight is a scientist because she is an intellectual is like saying I am a cellist because I am a musician. You have no idea what instrument I play, so you cannot make that guess. Sure, Twi seems to take scientific approaches in some cases, but that does not mean she is a scientist

@Mayojar77  
I think it proves Twilight is basically just the opposite of Star Swirl her idol. Star Swirl actually got bogged down in being scientific and eschewed companionship to be a studyholic, so while he showed good work, it took forever and non-scientific ‘solutions’ such as “this is powered by friendship” completely eluded him. Twilight would be the kind of scientist that batters through roadblocks to produce results, even if the battering winds up skewing or outright crapfucking the results, similar to certain ‘conservation sciences’ or studies about x food/superfruit being da bestest shit evr for you. She’s liable to be agenda-driven and wish to attain results no matter the cost.
 
If it’s actually intended to come off that way it’d be kind of neat since that would show them both ignoring the obvious and more efficiently productive middle ground.

@Mayojar77 are several flaws in your argument. First, you assume that because Twilight is an intellectual, she is also a scientist, and that is like saying that because one is a musician they can play any instrument. Second, your examples of Twi’s “failings” are weak because of the surrounding circumstances. You claim she should have researched other spells before trying, yet why would she go to the trouble of doing that when she has a perfectly workable spell right in front of her. it was only after she experimented that she found it too much work to do several times. In the “Swarm of the Century” she was under extreme deadline while the little monsters were eating everyone out of house and home, she did not have time to study them in a lab. Not saying you cannot hate a character, but your justifications for the hate make you seem shallow. Just say you hate her and leave it at that

@Background Pony  
because of Celestia’s reaction to the instances she’s seen or read about, it can be assumed that Twilight does this all the time.

@Mayojar77  
Those sounds like the idiot ball has been jumping around.

@MagnificentTrixie  
‘No True Scotsman’? I think I’ve heard of that. Seriously, I can hate a character if I want to, especially when that character constantly does things that their supposed character shouldn’t do.
 
For example, In ‘The Sonic Rainboom’, Twilight only bothered to look for an alternative to the wing-making spell after she already wasted energy on the spell. In ‘Swarm Of The Century’, she didn’t bother to test the spell on an individual parasprite under laboratory conditions and went straight to applying it to a large scale. In ‘Feeling Pinkie Keen’, she exhibited the scientific method for the first and last time when such a thing was counterproductive to her goal, which was to find the cause of the Pinkie Sense. Do these sound like the actions of an actual scientist?

@Urishima  
XD

Maybe you should DEFRIEND him…

@Mayojar77
 
It’s called the “No True Scotsman” fallacy. It’s a piece of shit and I immediately distance myself from anyone who uses it.

Still, he brings up an excellent point. Why can’t I hate Twilight Sparkle? She’s not the only character there, and I personally don’t like so-called intellectuals who violate the scientific method when dealing with unknown forces.

@RIG  
Because you touch yourself at night.

Epic troll. This guy deserves a medal.

why…why this type of posts are allowed?

wat

I agreed with Marty until I realized he got trolled into a crater the size of Manhattan.