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That's pretty much what happens in the finale of season 5, though.

Just to be clear, the fact that a single person opened of a pony themed cafe doesn't prove anything regarding the shows popularity in Japan. Espically not since the cafe in question were more inspired by the previous generations. I mean, do we talk about pony in any specific country much? For example, I don't recall any topics about "Pony in Sweden" or "Pony in Germany".

Whilst I fail to see why that's a bad thing, I don't think that's true. There's plenty of room open for discussion. One can, for example, discuss why I'm wrong and how sad episode is totally an accurate representation of Equestria under Nightmare Moons rule.

I get that it's not very fun, but not everything is. Cool, let's analyze what we see then. Isn't it fairly likely that the other villains simply never appared in Nightmare Moons reality? Like, it's an alternate timeline so multiple events could differ from the normal timeline. This could mean that the CMC never met, and therefore couldn't fight in front of Discord Statue, thus not triggering the event that de-petrified Discord. As for Chrysalis, the changelings were mainly after a food source and maybe Equestria wasn't just as filled with love under Nightmare Moon as it was in the normal timeline. This in turn could mean that the changelings simply didn't think that Equestria would be worth taking over. As for Sombra, maybe Cadance were able to find the Crystal heart in time or something. Tirek could have slipped on a rock and broken his neck. In short, there are other reasons other than Nightmare Moon as for why her rule was so peaceful. I disagree, the whole scenario is flawed to such an extent that you can't ignore it. The idea that the alternate timeline in question gives any form of insight into how rule under Nightmare Moon would have been just doesn't work when you consider the giant plotholes in the story. My point is that we shouldn't take Nightmare Moon's timeline at face value, especially not anything revolving around other villains. If we shouldn't talk about the alternate timeline in Nightmare Moon won, stop using it as evidence of how much of a threat she is. As fun as arguing about a cartoon show is, I'm not gonna waste 18 minuets of my life to do so.

I'm sorry, but I don't really understand what any of that has to do with what I said. Edit: Also, my point still stands. Regardless of how much you read into Nightmare Moons timeline, it shouldn't be taken as proof that Nightmare Moon can deal with threats like Discord, Tirek, etc. As I pointed out previously, even in the Flim and Flam timeline, none of the other villains were around so either the writers wanted to show what the world would look like if [Insert villain here] had won and simply didn't care about how little sense it made that none of the other villains were around, or Flim and Flam were able to deal with the likes of Discord or Tirek. I know which of those scenarios sounds more likely to me. This is also helped by the fact that Luna appears in the Discord timeline, which shows that Celestia was able to defeat her even without the elements of harmony.

Yeah, can you just summarize his point for me? I'm too lazy to watch the entire video.

Let's say I buy that explination, but what about the war with Sombra? Or Chrysalis? Or Nightmare Moon? Or Discord? Did all of them suddenly grow bored and walked away, letting Flim and Flam walk in and take over?

But is that a result of the actions of Nightmare Moon, or shitty writing? IMO, the argument that Nightmare Moons is a threat because she was able to defeat the other villains fall apart the second you remember that all the different timeline we saw in that episode only included one villain. Like, unless you wanna argue that Flim and Flam were somehow able to defeat Tirek, you shouldn't take that episode at face value.

Honestly, I think the reason Nightmare Moons timeline was so peaceful were less because of anything Nightmare Moons did, and more because the writers wanted to show what Equestria would look like under her rule. After all, all the different timeline we were showed in that episode only focused on one of the villains.

Personally, I think Celestia is more popular. Not only does Celestia actually rule over Equestria unlike Luna who seems to function more as therapist, she kept it safe from treaths for a thousands years whilst Luna were nearly reasonable for it's destruction not once, but twice. Didn't that particular tradition start less out of respect and more out of fear?

No, male characters dominate practically every other half decent show so it's a bit refreshing to watch something with only female main characters What's the difference between this and "SJW" diversity?

Personally, I think that the show should have ended after season six.

Personally, I'd prefer it if Spitfire ended up with Rainbow.

I don't really see the point of it myself, but that's mostly because I think a convention focused entirely on a single show is a bit silly.