spoiler Do you think Cozy Glow was supposed to be a straight-up "twist"?

[gingerninja666 487]

This has been on my mind for a little bit. I've seen some people roll their eyes because they thought it was "obvious" that Cozy Glow was evil.

My question is: Was that intentional?

Was Cozy Glow's reveal as a villain supposed to be a thing you wouldn't see coming? Or was she supposed to look suspicious to the audience the entire time?

Because I'm inclined to think the latter. They seemed to be having fun with just how suspicious and overly sacharine she was. I thought the mystery of Cozy wasn't "Is she up to no good?" It was "What's her angle?" The biggest twist for me was that she wasn't revealed to be working with Neighsay.

[TBD 17,228]

Well anything that got to do with  a cute innocent  little girl with curly hairs is a typical indication that they're evil. 

But then again MLP is already predictable even before this. 

[Thrond 3,257]

She was slightly weird in "Marks for the Effort," really weird in all of her cameos, and I think by "What Lies Beneath" you were supposed to get the hint, because that episode doesn't even try to hide that she's up to no good. 

[Lord Valtasar 12,685]

she was supposed to be a twist for the characters in the show, but we,as viewers weren't supposed to be surprised by it, at least i don't think we were, i actually thought she'd end up being a Chrysalis puppet tbh, or even a changeling herself(maybe one that happened to be out of the hive during the reformation)

[Misty Shadow 7,084]

I actually think the twist was decently done. If you look through the progress from episode to episode with the hints, you see a pattern. Marks for Effort and Friendship University had very slight foreshadowing of her actually being evil, then What Lies Beneath made it clear she had an ulterior agenda, but only slightly foreshadowed her being evil, as what she was planning could have been for "the greater good". Then there's definite foreshadowing in the finale, where it's not obvious right away that Neighsay is a decoy main antagonist and that Cozy Glow is just following orders, but by following the hints in the episode, you can tell that Cozy Glow has set everything up and is the true villain. I personally don't think that the twist was badly written or constructed, I just feel that some people went in with a bias after the twist had been spoiled for them. 

[EpicEnergy 22,074]

There is a large amount of foreshadowing that Cozy is up to something, so I think it was intended that the audience had suspicions about her but not that she was completely evil.

[Will Guide 21,325]

1 hour ago, CloudMistDragon said:

I actually think the twist was decently done. If you look through the progress from episode to episode with the hints, you see a pattern. Marks for Effort and Friendship University had very slight foreshadowing of her actually being evil, then What Lies Beneath made it clear she had an ulterior agenda, but only slightly foreshadowed her being evil, as what she was planning could have been for "the greater good". Then there's definite foreshadowing in the finale, where it's not obvious right away that Neighsay is a decoy main antagonist and that Cozy Glow is just following orders, but by following the hints in the episode, you can tell that Cozy Glow has set everything up and is the true villain. I personally don't think that the twist was badly written or constructed, I just feel that some people went in with a bias after the twist had been spoiled for them. 

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Her being a jerk was obvious. But how far she was willing to go, to the point of destroying all magic was the real twist in my eyes.

Like I said, I thought Neighsay was going to be the Final Boss of the Season and Cozy would have a Heel-Face Turn to help our heroes stop him, but no. Her actions were sooooo much worse than Neighsay could ever be. And the icing on the cake is that she's shown absolutely no remose for her selfish actions.

[Steve Piranha 28,778]

I actually think her being the villain was done a little subtle, but most of us knew of Cozy’s evil intentions due to the leaked synopses of the season even before we even knew what she looked like

[Esoteric 142]

I always felt that Cozy Glow was always a bit too nice and sweet, even for MLP standards. It was kinda obvious to me that she was just putting on an act, and I was half-right when she manipulated the Student 6 to doubt their friendships in What Lies Beneath. Her turning out to be evil wasn't all too big of a shock, but I think it was well done.

[Midnight Solace 5,129]

Yeah, she was meant to be a baddie but the show didn't reveal it at first. Also, there's the fact that she's just a filly.

[Sepul-Coloratura 756]

Actually, If it turned out that she wasn't evil at all, It would have been a great twist.