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    Had Celestia punished Twilight in "Lesson Zero" what would it have been?

    in MLP:FiM Canon Discussion

    Does everyone really think Celestia would send Twilight back to Magic Kindergarten, or is that just a joke? Seriously, Twilight seems terrified of that as a punishment, to the point where it added to her insanity in that episode anyway. I don't think Celestia would do that to her, it seems like it was just Twilight being paranoid. Honestly, actually sending her back to Magic Kindergarten might just make her fear and paranoia worse in the future and cause more problems.

     

     I'd imagine something like being taken back to Canterlot...Temporarily for maybe some kind of extra magic ethics lessons, or some kind of community service or something.

    S06:E15 - 28 Pranks Later

    in Season 6 Discussion

    · Edited by Base

    Okay, I think I've pinpointed exactly what it is that bothers me. Exactly why Ponyville's prank feels so much worse.

     

     Compare it to the prank Dash pulled on Fluttershy. Sure, she really scared Fluttershy, but then she pulled the mask off and it was over. At the time Fluttershy thought she had run into a scary creature, but that was it. I felt really bad for Flutters here, and Dash continuing to laugh at her is pretty insensitive, yeah.

     

     Then comes Ponyville's big prank, and it's a similar scary one, but taken to the extreme. It's not just one monster, it's a lot of them. It's not just a random dragon thing, it's her best friends, and the whole town. It's not a random event, it's HER fault. As far as Dash know during the prank, she's caused serious harm to everypony she knows, and now they might be about to hurt her. She's not just feeling scared, she's probably feeling horrible guilt.

     

     It doesn't end quick either. It get's dragged on and on. Dash went too far, but her friends pushed it even further, too much in my opinion. Heck, I can imagine the whole scenario scaring Dash off from ever pulling a prank again, not just cause she doesn't want to be mean, but out of a huge fear of hurting anypony.

     

     Actually, that could make an interesting episode. Dash taking the lesson to heart so much she becomes overly sensitive around her friends, to the point of not acting like herself at all.

    • Brohoof 4

    S06:E15 - 28 Pranks Later

    in Season 6 Discussion

    I'm not sure how to feel here. I think giving Dash a taste of her own medicine in this case makes sense, I kinda doubt Rainbow would have learned any other way. But I can't help but feel it was taken too far.

     

    Her friends didn't just give back what they got. They escalated it even further, way further, to the point where it feels like they need to learn the lesson they were trying to teach her themselves. Maybe it's just me, but as someone who actually used to have a big fear of zombies as a kid, it felt too cruel. I ended up feeling way worse for Dash than anypony else, despite her being fine in the end.

     

     I think if it had been a double moral, with both sides learning not to take things too far, I would have liked it more.

    • Brohoof 1
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