Shiek927

A wonderful post - no question about it. For me, I simply want to be able to enjoy this movie for it's own merits. If there is a silver lining to be found, I want to find it. I don't want to immediately write off this movie because it wasn't Lauren's vision. I also don't want to blast any of the good people behind it, who are also greatly responsible for FiM in the first place (the hate Meghan Mccarthy has gotten has been *ridiculous* - I'm happy Faust defended her on 4chan though). I simply want to try to enjoy a good movie, and I don't know if it's good because I haven't seen it yet. I don't want to dislike it because of all the behind-the-scenes drama which isn't worthwhile. I want to dislike this movie if it turns out to be a bad movie, *that is it*. I don't want to dislike it because of my own ego.

It's a well-written article, but the title is wrong: this wasn't why *we* need Equestria Girls, but why Hasbro apparently needs it (money). If the point of this was to convince me why the fandom needs Equestria Girls, I wasn't convinced.

Here's an interesting question: will they still have the same names? Perhaps "Rainbow Dash" is just her affectionate nick-name, while "Snips and Snails" are just what bullies call them. It makes sense, though I'm not sure how much I like it anyway. I wouldn't be surprised if the movie goes that route.

What I think will end up happening, is that Twilight with this guy in the human world, eventually leave, and try to spark something with him back in Equestria, perhaps by lightly teasing him about something only he is supposed to know (like something important to him that he confided to her).

I find that the older you get, the less and less you care about what people think about you: not in the way you do as a teenager, but genuinely. You're through with feeling overly self-conscious or scrutinized for your interests, and you become more open with the things you love. If you can't be free to enjoy and do the things you love, then when will you be able too?

Isn't kind of a stretch to call her a villain? We don't know *anything* about her. Undoubtedly she'll be the antagonist, but It's a step higher to call her a "villain": that's territory you'd only really reserve for people like Discord or Chrysalis who commit actions that are threatening to, well, everyone. I don't believe at all she'll go that far: she'll just be more like the majority of antagonists in the show who are there to create conflict, but not necessarily bad people (or at least, as bad as a straight-up villain like Discord). You wouldn't put Gilda and Discord in the same category, they aren't even close I'm not really going to go off-the-wall with speculating on her, because there is only so much you can infer from what we saw, and odds are that the trailer misdirected all sorts of stuff. Unlike Trixie and Twilight, you can argue that their is a much more personal contrast between them, right down to similar names (Twilight Sparkle, Sunset Shimmer). Here's hoping she's nice, or at least reforms in the end: her toy is too sweet for her to stay bad