Unpopular opinion time

@Jades  

 
This.

@Meso Echo  
I always like it when Twilight acts like her old self. I think that’s one of the reasons I didn’t mind What About Discord?: Twilight felt like S1-S2 Twilight to me. I agree with what’s been said for the most part. While I (still) like Twilight, I think the writers should tone down her preachiness a bit. Make her more mature, but still socially awkward and bookish at heart. It’d be more believable than the direction the writers have been trying to go in for the past two seasons or so.
 
@Meso Echo  
Wait: AJ’s voice was different in S1?
 
@Villain Pony  
Let the discussion run its course.

@Crystal Neighybánya  
Applejack’s voice in season 1 was basically Rainbow Dash with a southern accent (which kinda makes sense as both are voiced by the same actress).

 
Big fucking deal.
 
And no, Sweetie Belle doesn’t have “a mean streak a mile wide” or “issues”. Not even a little. “For Whom The Sweetie Belle Tolls” was the first episode to show her being particularly cruel, and she got over that pretty quick.

Starlight Glimmer has a decent backstory and villain origin.

@Itsthinking  
I hope her backstory will be explored more in Season 6.

@Itsthinking
 
Her backsorry would be been decent if they didn’t frame it the way they did.

@Itsthinking  
At least she isn’t some sort of 1000 year old ancient abomination for once in the show.

@Jades  
A cutie mark “stole her boyfriend”

@ToskiHero
 
This is hilariously enough one of the least problems I had with her backstory. I had more of a problem with her reaction and how it killed any potential for sympathy.

I find the Tantabus as garbage a concept as the Nightmare Forces in sheer execution.

@Itsthinking  
“Waaah! My best friend left me after he got his Cutie Mark, now I’m evil!”
 
Yup. Sounds like a solid backstory to me.
 
@Jades  
They should’ve saved her backstory for a future episode or not given her a backstory at all.
 
@ToskiHero  
Pretty much.

(looks at topic title)  
You know, so that at least one of us does.

There are clearly things that seem more unpopular from others’ perspective.

@Crystal Neighybánya  
Better than “Wah, I DESERVE TO BE AN ALICORN PRINCESS NOW, I’M GONNA LEAVE TO A RANDOM HUMAN WORLD BECAUSE YOU DON’T GIVE ME WHAT I WANT.”

@Itsthinking  
I take it you like Glimmer cause she told Twilight to shut up?

@Crystal Neighybánya  
That’s what won me over at first.

@Crystal Neighybánya  
Kind of. But also because she had an actual good plan to get her revenge even if she was wrong about how she was “wronged.”

@PonyPon  
To be fair, you like almost anything as long as something bad happens to her.
 
 
@Crystal Neighybánya  
That the 12th doctor your thinking of.

@Itsthinking
 
Shimmer wasn’t really that thought out though huh? No amount of backstory was going to save that.

@ice1517  
I won’t deny that.

@PonyPon  
@Itsthinking  
Am I the only one who thinks liking a character because they dislike a character you dislike is a stupid reason to like a character?

@Crystal Neighybánya  
I don’t dislike Twilight. I like her a lot. I also like Glimmer because she’s a great foil and for once actually had an evil plan that made sense even if the trigger for it was rather weak.

@Crystal Neighybánya  
Might be.
 
I certainly don’t like her now, if that’s any solace.

@Crystal Neighybánya
 
That’s one of the worries I actually have about Glimmer in the premiere. She seemed like a Twilight haters wet dream and looked a little too idealized. Said fears were proven true in the finale.