JCKane

Thanks for all the welcomes. And yeah, Starlight's my favorite Pony Admitedly, when I originally was doing my first marathon of the series (a year or 2 ago) I was debating on which Pony was my favorite. While I do like all the Mane 6 characters I was trying to narrow them down to 1 tbh. Which, I'd have to say, Rarity and I think AppleJack were the only ones that I didn't really consider to much. Don't get me wrong, I like both of them just they didn't have the uh... quality/personality that I was looking for. Fluttershy I think I considered for a bit too, forget why I changed my mind. :/ Twilight Sparkle, Pinkie Pie, and Rainbow Dash were pretty top and I enjoyed all three of them. But I think Twilight really takes the spot when it comes to which is my favorite of the Mane 6.

Oh, forgot to mention I did include the EG Movies/specials in my marathon. Granted I didn't watch them in their timelined order (as I just paused in Season 6 I believe to watch them) Also it's kind of funny. MLP: FIM is probably the first series where I could literally turn around and start watching it again, as soon as I finish watching it. Seriously, the first time I watched the season (season 1-5/6) I started watching season 1 again after I finished Oh, I also wanted to mention, I'd say my first interest in the series (aside again the popularness of it and seeing it on Netflix) was back when I was a kid, I seen the My Little Pony Movie refered to as "Escape to Crystal Castle" Which I think it's pretty cool how many characters were taken from that movie (seriously, didn't even realize the main villain was used too... until I looked it up.)

Hello. As I said above, I'm new and I'm fresh off finishing a MLP: FIM Marathon. Watched episode 1 all the way up to the MLP movie (and 3 episodes of Season 8). My favorite character in the series would have to be Starlight Glimmer. (Sunset Shimmer would have to be my 2nd favorite). Uh, not fully sure what else to say. So uh... hi! :)

Not sure how old this topic is but I wanted to comment on this as yesterday I finally got to watch the MLP Movie and I found this aspect a little disappointing about it. Fair warning, I'm assuming everyone has seen up to Season 7's finale (and I'll be mentioning something on Season 8 ep 1) and all the Equitria girls movies and the 3 (or 4) specials (particularly Mirror Magic) With the spoiler warning out of the way, first of all I wanted to address something from an earlier post. Granted it happened most likely before Season 8 Episode 1 came out but I still wanted to make note. But in that particular episode it made it pretty clear that the Movie takes place between Season 7 and Season 8. Now on to the main topic at hand. You see, I honestly was a bit disappointed in Starlight only getting a brief cameo in the story as she's currently my favorite character. Admittedly, I'm perfectly fine with her taking a backseat and not even going on the main quest with the others just what bugs me is the fact that it makes no sense as to why she didn't get involved in some way. I mean they could of easily added a background scene or something of her getting captured or something but in a way I was thinking of it and tbh I think they should of done one of the following imo. 1) Removed her cameo entirely or at least shifted her cameo to after the day was saved. Because putting it where they did I just find caused more issue than it helped as it doesn't make any sense that a powerful pony such as Starlight didn't get involved at all. Not to mention her friends were in danger, so seriously. With this one, you could at the VERY least assume that Starlight was simply not there. Like I'll admit, I seen Equistria Girls special: Mirror Magic before I seen the movie and from what Starlight mentioned, I assumed that it took place during the movie. But for those who don't know. Starlight takes a trip to the EG dimension in that special and based on what Starlight said about "The girls are away solving an issue" personally I think it would of worked well for why Starlight wasn't there and that's what I had assumed. But sadly if you go by more what she said and then the movie, well she's obviously not referring to the movie. (unless she was but if so she did a really bad job at referring to it.) Plus at the end of Mirror Magic, she was told she could stay a few more days, which while it's possible there was a few days time skip to reget the friendship festival back in place, it was assumed it took a few hours. But alas, it wouldn't work but still you could assume that Starlight was away and thus simply didn't know what was going on... had they removed/moved her cameo. 2) Now, I get the fact that adjusting the movie may have been difficult as the story was in more production from before Starlight really became a good pony. But there was a spot in the movie that would of not only given her a 'role' in the movie but also explain why she wasn't more of a help. And it wouldn't require any real adjustments to the script. Anyways, in the scene where Storm King's minions first show up to the festival and started to capture the Princess'. Now when the 'magic ball' (dunno it's name) was going for Twilight, Twilight was saved at the last moment by Dopey (that's her name right?). Personally, this would of been a great place to add Starlight. As in have it where it was Starlight who saved Twilight instead of Dopey. Wouldn't of been to much of an adjustment, she didn't even have to say anything tbh, and the psycho-out (audience and tempest thinking she got Twilight) didn't even last very long, as in she realized it pretty fast. I think it would of been funny for a one-liner similar to in the episode Triple Threat where Ember kept confusing Starlight with Twilight (you're a purple pony with purple hair and with star cutie marks with shiny things ) But not required of course . Anyways, this would of been a good spot to of added Starlight without even needing really any adjustment to the script and small adjustment to the animation. So yeah, that's my oppinions of what they should of done. But I would also like to make another note of why the Pillar's of Light didn't do anything, (aside for them not being introduced until literally the last episode before the movie) Simply put, they were traveling and thus not even there at the festival to know what happened. Not to mention in the Movie's time.. the events lasted I'd say a maximum of 48 hours (if that) so while StarSwirl could of just teleported there, really it's more than possible they didn't even hear about it until it was already over. You could of even made the same excuse for Starlight... if she wasn't literally there... which if the EG special WAS her reasoning, could of simply been she was told off camera or something to head back to Ponyville to deliver the journal. And she can also teleport long distances so wouldn't of been an issue there.