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5 hours ago, The Recherche said:

Still no Blu Ray edition, huh?

It’s pretty ridiculous that EG had Blu-ray releases but not the actual series. 

1 hour ago, King of Canterlot said:

Yay! I can't wait, actually, this is a really really good birthday gift for me! My birthday is in late October, I'll have to ask my mom if she'll be willing to get this for me as a gift! 

Too bad Glimmy isn't on the cover though, she's practically a part of the mane six now, actually they should be called the mane seven at this point with how far Glimmy has come 

Exactly! I use the term “Mane Seven” all the time now! Especially with S8 so far.

After months of waiting and nothing but 5 episode theme dvd’s, Shout Factory will at last be releasing S7 on dvd October 9th. Unfortunately, It looks like they will be using a similar design to the S6 dvd cover and Starlight will be snubbed once again. On the bright side, at least we will be able to add the Season Seven episodes to our collection just in time for Season Eight to end.

https://www.equestriadaily.com/2018/07/season-7-dvd-now-listed-on-amazon.html

I’m constantly depressed over the serious lack of Starlight merch.

Season 1 (don’t sue me.) The first Season isn’t bad, it’s just that everything that came after the first 2 Seasons is easily superior IMO. Seasons 5 and 7 are my favorites.

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Starlight has had a ton of growth lately. Her only real major screw up post-S6 was in “To Change a Changeling.” I also feel like she was a better villain than Sunset and she had a better reformation.

- Starlight interacting with the Mane 6 more (maybe getting her own throne and/or element?)

- Checking in on Griffonstone

- CMC episode outside of Ponyville

- DIAMOND TIARA IN ANY ROLE OTHER THAN A NON-SPEAKING ONE (seriously!)

- Fillydelphia, Baltimare, Vanhoover or Trottingham shown for the first time. 

-New villain.

- Sunset Shimmer appearance.

- Scootaloo's family.

- Spike, Discord or Zecora's origins.

I would say Starlight, but I consider her to be a main character at this point. Spike too. So probably the princesses.

6 hours ago, Hierok said:

This is the most logical, but I like to think Discord ruled the land before Tirek and such invaded it.

But The Pillars didn't know Discord and Starswirl was present in Tirek's flashback.

The movie was fantastic, I've already seen it twice! Nothing TOO groundbreaking, but amazing nonetheless.

It's even better if you watch it in theaters.

That finale was a rush of amazingness, I've already seen it 4 times. 

Can't wait to watch all 26 episodes of Season 8 next week when they leak in Zimbabwe.

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I can't believe this has been going on for 4 years!

Good thing they waited until the S8 premiere to bring her back instead of doing it in the S7 finale and having it feel like it's too soon.

Also, please don't let this be another "Starlight saves the Mane 6" plot. As much as I love Starlight, I would rather see her work WITH the Mane 6 to defeat a villain. Plus, if they keep having the Mane 6 get kidnapped offscreen and be damsels in distress, they won't feel like main characters anymore.

23 hours ago, Lambdadelta said:

Could be because her personalities are not entertaining enough for audiences, even Applejack, the straight man kind of characters still have much more hilarious moment than Starlight, i think you cant deny that. Could be because her personalities are not rich enough due to her limit screentime in S6,  the writers just love to exploit her dark past than her reformed personality, or she didnt have much background to show us why she become who she is, OR Mlp is cartoon and you need to have some exaggerating personalities to stand-out.

That's fan speculation, but i have in-universe proof that Starlight herself didnt live up to her full potentials, from her best friend, TRIXIE:

"Listen, I'd take that over the boring pony you were becoming any day. The Starlight I love is passionate, lively, and yeah, sometimes angry. Those are my favorite parts of you. That and the fact that you forgive me every time." - Trixie

Do i need to say more? Even Trixie realized that, she found the hidden good parts of Starlight that everypony could miss. I hope Starlight can take those words to heart and come out of her shell. It not like I am totally against the "Boring Protagonist go along with the amazing secondary character"... but still... Remember Discord tamed himself so much so he can please Fluttershy and he was nearly ceased from existence? Yeah, that why this thread was made.

 

The whole episode, no one complained about Twilight's flaws beside her ascension, that weird...

I think when Trixie said that she was talking about that episode specifically because Starlight bottled up her anger and was acting like nothing was wrong. Also, I feel like a lot of what you said mainly applies to Season 6, where as in Season 7, they fixed Starlight and made her more interesting. I still wish they would stop putting her in a class of her own and start having her work WITH the Mane 6 more.

It makes no sense at all when people say that Starlight Glimmer is a bland or flat character who lacks distinct traits. Whether you hate Starlight or love her, that is definitely far from the truth. I can live with people saying that she's a flawed character, but a bland character? That's an extremely silly thing to say.

Watch any of her episodes and you can clearly see that she has her own personality traits and interests that are different from the main six.

"You both look and act so much alike."

On 8/13/2017 at 3:04 AM, SaburoDaimando said:

Not exactly my idea.  Instead, they notice the pony with the equal sign on his/her flank, and said pony calls out Starlight for abandoning her mission of equality.  And when Starlight counters, even by calling herself a hypocrite in her belief, said pony continues to chew Starlight out, even going as far as to make her cry.

 

Edit: Also, if I was in charge of casting, I would cast Vic Mignogna as the voice of this pony, maybe have him flip out over being called small as a nod to Edward Elric on Fullmetal Alchemist.

That could work too.

Holy crap! What could've prompted Thorax to transform into bear and attack Ember? Do Dragons and Changelings have some sort of past issues we don't know about?

Also, more Starlight? Awesome! One of my hopes for Season 7 was for Starlight to appear in more episodes than Season 6. If you add this episode and a certain other upcoming episode, that makes 8 appearances for her in S7. Only 2 more for it to match S6 and we don't even know about the finale yet.

Sort of interesting, but I think it's more likely that said pony would practice magic and brainwash the village like Starlight used to. Maybe Twilight and Starlight would then get called by the map to stop him/her.

"Twilight Sparkle was better before she had wings!"

You know that was a line leftover from Larson's original script.

1 hour ago, AlexanderThrond said:

I understand why Starlight gets forgiven more than Discord, tbh. At least she's trying not to be a jerk.

Starlight's presence feels more pronounced than it is primarily because she's so separate from the main friend group. Makes Starlight's presence feel like it's taking the place of the mane six, even though she technically gets just as many episodes as the others. I always found her distance from the mane six interesting, though, so I'm not sure what you could do about the problem without losing something.

 

I feel like it would be good for both her fans and her haters if they made her fit in with the rest of the main cast more. As of right now, she either overshadows the Mane Six or she's completely forgotten about. The song at the end of the S5 finale made me excited for all the of the story possibilities they could have between her and the Mane Six, but so far, it's been disappointing. (Even though I like her episodes.)

The only part of Mare do Well that brought me joy was Rainbow forcefully walking Granny Smith across the street, only to get whacked in the face with her purse as Granny proclaims "I DIDN'T WANT TO CROSS THE STREET IN THE FIRST PLACE!"

6 minutes ago, CypherHoof said:

To be fair, there is almost certainly nothing they can do about Discord in the absence of the Elements (other than have Flutters look sad, which IS apparently effective)

After ELTSD and to a lesser extent All Bottled Up Starlight acknowledges she messed up and apologises, which is progress. In Royal Problem her eventual success is more a side effect of her own nightmare than of her actions,  but the rather excessive stress Twilight put her (allegedly former) pupil under is a contributing factor.

Starlight is learning, but slowly; she is still someplace between "loose cannon" and "sweating dynamite".

Sunset by contrast appears to have grown into a well adjusted and integrated member of the EqG team, their gradual drift to being a team of Magical Girls notwithstanding.

I agree. Like, I always say, if the writers give us stories about Starlight interacting and working WITH the Mane 6, her character will become much better as a result.

On 8/10/2017 at 4:54 PM, MegaSean45 said:

CO-Story Editor! That means he's gonna be editing with someone else! Could be Vogel, could be Dubuc, could be the Lady Writers still! 

Or Meghan. I know. Wishful thinking.

This isn't too big of an issue for me. I like Haber as a writer and even though I had some issues with him as a story editor, It was only his first season as the SE and I trust his second will be better. (Meghan wasn't that good in S3 after all.) Plus, it seems like he won't be the only editor this time around.

17 hours ago, Lambdadelta said:

My complain about Starlight: IT'S NOT ENOUGH  Her evil charisma and manipulate vocabulary disappear for no reason, she is pretty good with manipulation for years, why become a awkward post-reformation villain? By a way, her habits still there and put in good use.

 

 

She still does manipulate others. Look at Every Little Thing She Does and Royal Problem.

It irritates me to no end when people act as if Starlight is the only one who gets off scott free without being punished. Look at Discord, he messes up and causes mischief ALL THE TIME and get's easily forgiven every time.