Sci-Twi: Love Her Or Hate Her?

[Starlight Serenade 3,668]

Recently re-watched EQG and Sci-Twi is still one of my favorites

[ZiggWheelsManning 11,500]

I'll have to catch up on those specials to see if I can love her.  

[tomatopotato 126]

In my opinion, she's a 4.

The reason I say so is because of the decisions she makes. The Equestrian Twilight is obviously at the center of her friend group, and whenever any of the other 5 have any dispute, Twilight usually gets involved and helps. Equestrian Twilight thinks friendship is a waste of time and she doesn't change until she meets the other 5. After that, she goes all in on friendship and goes from being aggressive to being a really, really nice pony. At least, that's how FiM works.

In EQG.......things are a bit different. You'll notice that humane Twilight is introduced similar to the way Equestrian Twilight is portrayed in Season 1, Episode 1. However, humane Twilight takes a bit of time to adapt. After accepting that friendship is important in Friendship Games, she has anxiety about screwing things up again in Legend of Everfree. Then, you'll notice that she tends to act slightly aggressive instead of instantly changing like Equestrian Twilight. She gets a little mad in Magical Movie Night and yells at humane Rainbow Dash in Spring Breakdown—which isn't something that Equestrian Twilight would do. I can't think of more examples off the top of my head, but if you analyze Sci Twi in all of the films, you'll notice that she can act a little more aggressive than Equestrian Twilight. Considering how critical of a role Twilight plays in both, I feel like that shouldn't exist, which is why I think that she shouldn't be in the center as much.

[FocusedGleam 4]

Its been a while since I saw any of it, but my opinion is kind of the same as EQS Twilight: she kind of stops being SciTwi since she stops really doing science. In her introductions, she was the only human to actually figure out magic. That is a groundbreaking discovery, and demonstrates an internal drive and curiosity. And then she just completely loses it. And then she is not only never shown actively investigating or studying the phenomena that she encounters, and is often actively afraid of even touching it. Just like with pony Twilight, it seems that a bright young scholar essentially ends up losing all of that aspect of her characterization, but its compounded by my general dislike of EQG's decisions in general.

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