Nuke87654

I highly doubt the CMC's get their cutie marks in this episode considering all the building up they're doing with Cutie Marks this season. A season finale would be more appropriate. What concerns me is more of that it's another 'CMC's try to find their Cutie Marks' episode. The previous CMC episodes worked best moving away from that theme. This time they're facing a dangerous outlaw and hoping to cross off bounty hunting as their cutie mark. I'm hoping Braeburn and Little Strong Heart show up in this episode, and the episode tone is a very funny one as the idea of children trying to catch a deadly criminal is not going ring well with many folks.

It's sad to see that as a Celestia fan. Just a Celestia episode designed to flesh her character and write her better going forward out is all I ask ;-; as a disappointed fan of hers.

Our issue mainly stems with how post S2 Celestia's actions has been pretty idiotic when on screen. It's a troubling trend we're seeing with Celestia where we see her sitting around and let's Twilight solve something on her own despite telling her the importance of friendships that nearly doomed Twilight and the Crystal Empire to Sombra (Crystal Empire), trusts a dubious character over her far more trust worthy subjects she could've chosen and gives up all their remaining magic to their least experienced alicorn in Twilight and tells her to hide them (Twilight's Kingdom). It's what's so fun at being a fan for me and many others are though. Discussing materials and stuff with like minded peers for something we all care about because we want to see it being better.

But your post mainly relies on a past personal experience with how you're so bitter with people doing discussions about a character as you believe it is pointless and that creators aren't going to fix and solve the issues you present because they can't or don't want to. Here's mine, when I requested on a forum to do a balance change on a character because I didn't like how poor it was. Despite opposition from one of the game's top players, the balance team actually went ahead and fixed it to where I requested it. It ended up being an excellent balance fix that even the top player admitted it was a good change. Just because you had one bad experience suggesting a change to something you considered wrong doesn't mean everyone else will either. Finally, using it as a crux for why we can't discuss the problems one of the characters on the show doesn't make yourself look good in a topic designed specifically to discuss what problems she has. If you don't think it's bad enough, then argue why it isn't instead of essentially telling us a topic is pointless because you don't want us to discuss about a show as concerned fans.

Instead of discussing how it can be fixed? Not many are just going to tolerate what they're seeing Celestia doing in the recent episodes on the show and would like that to be changed in a more positive direction for her.

I would say to save her, the following need to occur. 1. They need to have her go and save the mane 6 and/or the kingdom in some capacity that doesn't put her on the sideline observing. Remind the audience that she can be a terrifying presence in battle when she is pissed off, and to especially stop whacking her with the worf bat just to jobber up a villain as it's not only a cheap way to treat a strong powered character, but it actually makes future villains look worse as nobody is going to take you beating up a weak character seriously. A lesser but good examples are Celestia's actions in Return of Harmony where as soon as the mane 6 were beaten by Discord, she immediately sent letters to Spike in a hail mary move to save them, or how Celestia tried but failed to defend her kingdom from Queen Chrysalis. 2. Dedicate an or episodes designed to build Celestia's character up. Princess Luna has an arc going on with the CMC's that is building her in a positive direction in character. Celestia needs something similar in that regard so we can start bonding with her and feel her as a more benevolent leader that watches and cares for her people that she was originally built up to be instead of a malicious fool. 3. Remember the Nightmare Moon backstory? How about we see through Celestia's perspective and actually see the pains she had to go through after banishing her sister. We'd like to imagine Luna suffering in her imprisonment but yet not alot are imagining of just what Celestia had to go through for banishing her sister. Dedicate an episode showing us of how much Celestia has suffered trying to save her sister and all the years and plans that failed but never gave up saving her sister as Lauren Faust had envisioned her doing. The love for Celestia in the fandom will go up expediently from it.