S06:E21 - Every Little Thing She Does

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Starlight is so overpowered given her background. Twilight was the student of Celestia, she’s an alicorn, and seemingly worked pretty hard to get as proficient as she is at magic. Meanwhile Starlight just that natural talent, she’s really built different. You can really see it with the little friendly duel at the start.

That said, good episode. I feel like it really highlights Starlight’s internal struggles with trying to overcome her past as a crazy manipulator who just used a spell to make everything go her way. Her character flaws really make her likable to me.

Edited January 20, 2024 by Iforgotmybrain

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YouTube upload of the episode:

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A subtle and nuanced send up of the Sorcerer's Apprentice, without the brooms and the well, but still plenty of water. 

DOOMGUY and Pinkie Pie are a known inter-franchise ship, but I have something a little less...undead cannibal in mind for Starlight Glimmer.

If Corvus had Starlight Glimmer by his side throughout all of Shadow of the Serpent Riders, the game would have one setting, piece of cake.  

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On 2024-01-20 at 8:18 AM, Iforgotmybrain said:

That said, good episode. I feel like it really highlights Starlight’s internal struggles with trying to overcome her past as a crazy manipulator who just used a spell to make everything go her way. Her character flaws really make her likable to me.

The problem with this episode is Starlight Glimmer was never given therapy for this after the fact. I think this is what Twilight Sparkle and Princess Celestia should have arranged for Starlight Glimmer given the circumstances as what she did in the episode Every Little Thing She Does was not cool, I don't hate her, I do empathize with her internal struggles, there is a clear desire to reform in this episode that many of the critics overlook, but unfortunately, her fear of not succeeding clouded her judgement, this is reasonable grounds for Twilight Sparkle to order medical intervention for Starlight. While it is important to recognize the severity of crimes, it is also important to recognize the importance of internal struggles and its affect on behavior, it is entirely possible past traumas could be affecting Starlight Glimmer's ability to behave proper, all the more reason for her to be taken to a psychiatric ward in my opinion.

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How they could have done psychiatric wards for rehabilitation of villains in MLP FIM is something like Arkham Asylum from Batman

except a system that actually works, and not a revolving door for sadists to repeat their crimes again and again, my biggest problem with DC is for the sake of a recurring villain, they almost never commit to rehabilitation, what's even worse is because of the incompetence of authorities, convicts escape, their justice system is useless and that is also true for DCAU. It may make for an entertaining story for some folks, but the truth is, that kind of writing is flawed and almost makes heroes look like jerks, though it is not entirely their fault villains kill repeatedly, but I am getting off topic here, I only used this as an analogy of psychiatric wards gone wrong in fiction.