Biggest pet peeve about this movie... no ship battle

[BornAgainBrony 2,395]

Yeah, yeah... I get it, MLP isn't a violent show, generally speaking. But a lot of stuff got blown up. Twilight got kicked around the hardest she's been since Tirek. They set up something incredible by bringing the airship fleet in near the beginning of the film, and then introduced us to a rebellious group of ex-pirates who also had an airship. Comeon... it could've been done without anyone being gratuitously killed. How in the world did the writers abandon an opportunity like that?