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The EOH and macguffins...


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So, anyways, I was thinking. The EOH have been a very core part of the show since day one in concepts at least; they were what brought the mane six together (it was even aknowledged in the S4 premiere). And they've been pretty much the only thing that the mane six have had at their disposal to fight villains with, since the mane six are pretty low in the weight class catagory compared to the Alicorn princesses, and rarity or pinkie aren't exactly the best ponies to send at a Chaos god or Changeling queen normally.



But its been quite some time in the show, and they've focused on the mane six's Elements alot in Season 4, in addition to retiring the EOH.
So, do you think they should keep focusing on the EOH and their concepts for adventure setups? Or do you think that it might be time to put them out to pasture for good in regards to how things like Rainbow power was activated by them more or less?


Would you like new macguffins that were basically the EOH all over again? Or would you like the EOH to fade out without new macguffins?
Or even would you like new macguffins that embody different concepts than the EOH?

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The EOH are not macguffins. Maybe you could argue they were in the pilot, but I would say no, since they actually played an active role in resolving the narrative, rather than simply being a driving force for the plot.

 

Also, we've already had replacements for the EOH: the rainbow power. Personally, I hope to not see that or anything else like it in the show. It's much more fun to see unique resolutions, like what we got in The Cutie Map. That is fresh and satisfying, while an EOH clone would be anything but.

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I've always kinda thought that the elements were sort of a metaphor, like if you have a friend (and are yourself a friend) that is loyal, generous, honest, kind, and invokes laughter then that friendship is magic. With that said, keep in mind that the mane six have only used the physical elements twice. So the cool necklaces with the jewels haven't really been that important since "the return of harmony" (and maybe in "keep calm and flutter on" when they used them to threaten Discord) The physical manifestion of the elements were important to the tree of harmony in protecting Equestria. But I think what we're supposed to take away from them giving the jewlery back to the tree (and in essence all the "key" episodes of season four) is that they don't need the jewlery because the real elements of harmony are inside easy of them. Each of the mane six are literary the element that they are associated with.

Like they say in the song "let the rainbow remind you" "when we come together/combine the light that shines within, there's nothing we can't do/ there's no battle we can't win. When we come together/ there will be a star to guide the way. it's in us everyday..."

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