Winter Storm

I would have loved to see a Twilight who did choose her own path rather than one who accepted their role as chosen by Celestia.

I admit I very much miss the unicorn Twilight, I'd even take the early alicorn Twilight. To me the whole series can be grouped into three categories of quality depending on season and the character interaction and behavior reflects that. Season 8-9 Twilight is a lot more "boring" to me than the earlier seasons.

I must admit I am increasingly concerned that Hasbro will go out of their way to ruin G5 for most audiences out of spite for the brony community. I think they've written us off as a source of bad PR and not worth the money in our pockets.

I wouldn't be interested if they weren't ponies either. For some reason I just found the G4 characters and their design irresistible.

I am somewhat disappointed even though she wasn't my favorite character. I think some limited connections with G4 would be a good thing for G5. I actually like that early supposedly leaked concept art of the Mane Six in G5, the one with Twilight as an earth pony and hopefully her staying that way instead of Celestia making her an alicorn and giving her a whole kingdom. I'm a bit worried some writers will go out of their way to do things just out of spite for bronies and our general weirdness.

She seemed to get taller when she was first made an alicorn by Celestia, but I don't think she grew at all between the rest of the seasons, until the epilogue where she was somehow Celestia's size. Did that later increase to full alicorn size happen all at once? Did she achieve something for it to happen? Does she get the power to make alicorns too now? There are a lot of unanswered questions.

I think Twilight Sparkle was selected by Celestia when she was a filly and made a long term project. Part of that involved assigning Cadance to be her babysitter which would be quite a privilege for Twilight's family. Twilight's parents clearly already had status in Equestrian society just to get her into Celestia's unicorn kindergarten. Surely Celestia can't teach every young unicorn and being selected must be a high honor. I think Shining Armor's later marriage to princess Cadance was more a "reward" to their family than anything else. It also gave Twilight a reason to help Cadance seize the Crystal Empire which also served as one of Celestia's tests of Twilight. That's two gryphons with one stone. All of this makes me severely question Celestia's judgement regardless of Twilight's qualities. In a way it wasn't exactly fair to Twilight who never got to choose her own path in life. Its just a very biased way of selecting a successor. Yet perhaps it's realistic to what might historically occur in our world if a king couldn't have a natural-born heir yet still had the opportunity to groom a successor.