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It works for me best in something like Holidays Unwrapped where she’s also kinda rebellious and reckless. I would just transition to that mode a lot earlier, and focus on how it can bounce off the others. And I would pick maybe 2 of her many hobbies and flesh them out a little more. You misunderstand me; all of the main characters have annoyed me at one time or another. I forgive that easily. What I want is to empathize with her faults without just shifting blame. What is it like to blow up at things that don’t deserve it? Especially if you soon realize you screwed up. My Little Pony is best when it tells that kind of story, and it didn’t do so often enough. You put me in charge, Sci-Twi is a different character. “Twilight but she acts completely differently” never worked for me, sorry.

This makes me uncomfortable because Twilight was so young when she hatched the egg. I mean sure, that's a story you could tell, but it's sad to make a child be a parent. I actually like "Amending Fences" way less than "Forgotten Friendship." In fact, I recently rewatched "Forgotten Friendship," and it finally clicked with me, whereas "Amending Fences" has never worked for me at all. I get that "Forgotten Friendship" shows off how far Sunset has come, whereas I never cared about Twilight making up with Moondancer. You know, I actually like the Sunset and Celestia scene now, but somehow it still feels like a means to an end for me... I feel like it would have more weight if it were expanded, and if we got more onscreen of what it meant for both of them. It just seems like a big moment to me, so it's weird to think of this as something Sunset had just moved on from. My thought is that, as presented, Wallflower Blush is someone who Sunset Shimmer should have interacted with on a regular basis through the yearbook committee. At the start of "Forgotten Friendship" we see her quite rudely ignoring Wallflower, which just feels off to me. I believe the new Sunset Shimmer would attempt to befriend Wallflower Blush and make up with her. But based on Wallflower's backstory, it's also easy to assume that this was all just because Wallflower kept erasing memories, so that takes away from the idea that Sunset Shimmer is responsible for any of this. Which, fine, I get it now, Wallflower was depressed and lashing out, that's a good story. My problem is more that, as a story, it's thematically repetitive: it adds nothing. To be fair, though, since I skip everything between Friendship Games and "Forgotten Friendship" when rewatching, I'm okay with that now. I see it as a sort of coda. For a while I really didn't think she was capable of carrying a plot. She's my least favourite of the EqG seven. I said this before, but I think "Sunset's Backstage Pass" was on the right track; a story where Sunset's anger gets out of control and causes problems is the right idea. That specific special just told it in a way that I didn't find very funny or relatable. I also think the writers really needed to sit down and decide more precisely who they wanted Sunset to be from this point on; her interests feel nebulous and her one flaw doesn't have much depth.