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"The Cutie Re-Mark" First Impressions


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This was a hell of a lot better than I expected.

  1. Everything Twilight did to desperately try and fix everything makes so much sense. She tries to fight Starlight mentally and physically, but SG was so hellbent on revenge and the pain of her past, she'd do everything she can to stop it.
  2. Don't look at the fact that SG lost her only friend as the cause. Look at how she lost him. The second he got his mark, she never saw him again. In other words, if he never got that mark, everything will be completely different. She'd still be home. Sunburst won't go off to Canterlot. They'd still know each other. No cutie mark, no memories of her past.
     
    Like that, her actions, as evil as they were, feel plausible. Without the pain of individual cutie marks, then no one would have to feel the same pain as she did. No wonder why she concocted the spell of the equality mark.
  3. There are two great morals to the story.
     
    a. You can never change your past. You can only change your future. Starlight can't change what happened with her in the past, and thus she can't inflict the same pain on Twilight. But she can change how she goes about things. Restart viewing cutie marks and friendship altogether in a much more positive light and use it for good.
     
    b. One moment makes a difference. This calls back to a similar moral from Amending Fences: You might see the moment as inconsequential, but to others, it can make a really big impact for better or for worse. Twilight's decision to skip Moondancer's party helped change her for the better, but it changed MD for the worst. For Starlight, it's the same thing. Her one moment back home makes a big impact on her life, but she was so hellbent on revenge that she never stopped to think about how the one moment from Rainbow Dash changed everyone's lives around them. It'd make everyone's lives miserable, even herself.
  4. The way it ended may be a little cheesy, but it's the good kind. Starlight assumes that by changing the way the Mane Six would meet, Starlight won't have to have her village collapse. But she never foresaw how it'd hurt her, either. The only way for her to actually see it is to take Starlight to an apocalyptic future and then use this and how Starlight grew to being the mare she was to try to change her for the better.
     
    What happens here is way more fulfilling than Sunset Shimmer's. Sunset's whole character was reset, and you saw her redeem herself as a completely different character. Starlight never changed her character. Instead, she was convinced, and she willingly accepted Twilight's apprenticeship. As a result, Starlight's addition to the Mane Six (now Mane Seven or Mane Eight, if you count Spike) feels more genuine.


I'll need another viewing to gauge its quality, but right now, I'm loving The Cutie Re-Mark.

 


 

Source: S05:E25+26 - The Cutie Re-Mark

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My favor for this episode is lessening as I had issues with Starlight's obvious quick reformation, pacing issues in the 2nd act, the AU verses posing alot unanswered questions like how they came to be without the other earlier villains from doing their own crap beforehand, how white washed Starlight glimmer turn as a villain was considering it omitted the part where she had a scheme going with the mane 6's cutie marks in the premiere that is never brought up, and what was Starlight Glimmer going to do after her plan had succeeded and Twilight had vanished? Just continuing to go back to spite Twilight?

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Also, in the Starlight backstory, we have to realize that Starlight's a filly when it happened. Losing a friend had more impact since she'd probably unable to move on, thus the motivations in the first place.

 

What I liked the most, however is how Twilight "defeated" Starlight. Twilight knew that Starlight is "better" in magic (seen when Twilight got exhausted of continuous laser fight, while Starlight did it like a breeze), thus Twilight had to change Starlight's mind to stop her. Twilight changed the game by showing Starlight what happened in the future if RD's Sonic Rainboom never happened.

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I think the reformation scene just need more 5 minutes because it's too quick... At least it still better than EG 1 ending, but still cheesy as hell...

What will season 6 happen next? Too many thing has been accomplished, too many reformed enemies, too many doors are closed...

 

However, I know season 6 will go downhill because Barbie and My little pony will CO-EXIST from now on... season 6 will be another G3.5 *sarcasm*. I cant still get over that finale ending sequences(i thought Diamond Tiara reformation is the most scary thing in the show, but i was wrong). Villain reformation is scaring me, I just want villain to be defeat and everyone singing about it... Character development is scary...

 

I need to shoot some Barbie dolls right now...

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For me, this episode fell into more typical two-parter traps than "The Cutie Map" did, and really failed to capitalize on the presence of Starlight Glimmer enough. The quick 5-minute reformation at the end was nothing compared to the 40-odd minutes that could have been spent exploring the character's past and motivations instead of relative stalling by going into the alternate timelines and having Twilight be oblivious to time-travel concepts (exposition at the expense of character).

 

I agree with the morals and messages, although I feel they would have been much better expressed had the episode given more time to Starlight instead of Twilight and the Mane 6.

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