What if Twilight Looks at her "Destiny" in a Different Light?

[Nature's Spell 526]

Twilight has moved beyond being simply Celestia's student and is now a student of life.

 

To go where you will go

To see what you will see

To find what you will be

For it's time for you to fulfill your destiny

 

Those lyrics prove that her journey has only begun. She showed all the Elements, but added Leadership and because of that she became a princess. The wings are just the outward expression of her well earned princessship. Her friends knew as far back as Boast Busters how powerful, and special, Twilight was. If they accepted her I don't see why we can't accept her too.

 

As far as the others, and their destiny, the interaction between their cutie mark and what they do is complex. Rainbow loves racing, dreams of being a wonderbolt, but her role is being the best weather patrol pony and as she says she'll never keep Ponyville hanging.

Edited May 1, 2013 by Nature Spell

[True Rarity 1,240]

It might be difficult to ever accept this change if you're too focused on how you wanted it to go. Nothing wrong with predictions and expectations, but don't let it interfere with the story being told. I watched the entire series just taking things as they unfolded and enjoying what was done. During my re-runs of many episodes, everything seems to fall together beautifully.

 

Magical Mystery Cure is without a doubt my favorite episode. Setting aside the incredible songs, it brought together many elements of the story and carved a path into wonderful new territory.

You're right.

And if that's your opinion, that's fine with me.

I guess it's so difficult to change my mind because I was certain she would stop being a princess in the Season 4 premiere.

But I don't know what's going to happen.

I knew Twilight was going to become a princess before I'd even see one episode of the show.

Even before I saw it happen, I didn't quite like it.

So now my heart is set on something else.

But all this debate has softened me.

Even though I still don't like the fact that she's a princess now, I'm certain the writers will make this work.

 

Twilight has moved beyond being simply Celestia's student and is now a student of life.

 

To go where you will go

To see what you will see

To find what you will be

For it's time for you to fulfill your destiny

 

Those lyrics prove that her journey has only begun. She showed all the Elements, but added Leadership and because of that she became a princess. The wings are just the outward expression of her well earned princessship. Her friends knew as far back as Boast Busters how powerful, and special, Twilight. If they accepted it I don't see why we can't too.

You have a good point.

I repeat, I'm sure whatever the writers have in mind will be satisfactory.

But the biggest reason I don't like her transition to princesshood is because the show won't ever be the same.

Wasn't the point to teach children about friendship?

Twilight learned her friendship lessons in ways we can relate to them. Now that she's a princess, she may not be able to do things the same way. 

[Nature's Spell 526]

You're right.

And if that's your opinion, that's fine with me.

I guess it's so difficult to change my mind because I was certain she would stop being a princess in the Season 4 premiere.

But I don't know what's going to happen.

I knew Twilight was going to become a princess before I'd even see one episode of the show.

Even before I saw it happen, I didn't quite like it.

So now my heart is set on something else.

But all this debate has softened me.

Even though I still don't like the fact that she's a princess now, I'm certain the writers will make this work.

 

You have a good point.

I repeat, I'm sure whatever the writers have in mind will be satisfactory.

But the biggest reason I don't like her transition to princesshood is because the show won't ever be the same.

Wasn't the point to teach children about friendship?

Twilight learned her friendship lessons in ways we can relate to them. Now that she's a princess, she may not be able to do things the same way.

I'm not sure that Frienship is all the show tries to teach, and even if it is, change is life and thus part of friendship too. Seeing that friends change is healthy. My daughter is in the demographic and she is learning that sometimes painful lesson all too well. Not that it must be painful.

[True Rarity 1,240]

I'm not sure that Frienship is all the show tries to teach, and even if it is, change is life and thus part of friendship too. Seeing that friends change is healthy. My daughter is in the demographic and she is learning that sometimes painful lesson all too well. Not that it must be painful.

You're also right.

And I'm willing to accept that the show teaches more than friendship.

But isn't friendship the MAIN reason?

How can they call the show "Friendship is Magic" if they stop teaching about friendship?

Edited May 1, 2013 by True Rarity

[Nature's Spell 526]

You're also right.

And I'm willing to accept that the show teaches more than friendship.

But isn't friendship the MAIN reason?

How can they call the show "Friendship is Magic" if they stop teaching about friendship?

You need to define what Frienship means to you because for me nothing that happened, or will happen, changes the Magic of Frienship. What does friendship mean to you?

[True Rarity 1,240]

You need to define what Frienship means to you because for me nothing that happened, or will happen, changes the Magic of Frienship. What does friendship mean to you?

Friendship, to me, means the harmony between two or more.

It means love, consideration, compassion, kindness, humor... pretty much the Elements of Harmony.

Harmony is friendship in my eyes.

I've experienced one too many girls who weren't loyal enough to be a true friend.

Don't get me wrong. I still know that Twilight is fully capable of maintaining her friendship while she's a princess.

But it won't be the same.

Will she continue her studies?

I think her studies are what's teaching us about friendship in the first place.

All those letters to Celestia.

No more letters while she's a princess... 

[Nature's Spell 526]

I agree with you about friendship, but my 38 years on this earth have proven many times it's very hard to find, takes work and can be very messy and painful.

 

I think it will be different but not worse. I expect the recap, the letter, will still exist in some form. Twilight may be the one getting the letters, and as I said, she has plenty to learn. Maybe even more now.

Edited May 1, 2013 by Nature Spell

[True Rarity 1,240]

I agree with you about friendship, but my 38 years on this earth have proven many times it's very hard to find, takes work and can be very messy and painful.

 

I think it will be different but not worse. I expect the end cap the letter will still exist in some form. Twilight may be the one getting the letters and as I said she has plenty to learn. Maybe even more now.

I'll admit it will be different.

I'll also admit that the writers can keep it from worsening.

But if Twilight's doing nothing but getting letters, how can her position in the Mane 6 maintain itself? She'd be like Celestia: mentioned in every episode, but almost unimportant to the show.

[Nature's Spell 526]

I'll admit it will be different.

I'll also admit that the writers can keep it from worsening.

But if Twilight's doing nothing but getting letters, how can her position in the Mane 6 maintain itself? She'd be like Celestia: mentioned in every episode, but almost unimportant to the show.

The "letter" is a metaphor and it does not have to be literal. It could just be a discussion and I expect Twilight to be much more actively involved in the discussion.. We need to be patient and see how it unfolds.

[True Rarity 1,240]

The "letter" is a metaphor and it does not have to be literal. It could just be a discussion and I expect Twilight to be much more actively involved in the discussion.. We need to be patient and see how it unfolds.

Once again, you're right.

But even if Twilight sends letters back and forth, I don't know how she can still be completely active in the show.

But, like you said, we should wait for the Season 4 premiere.

[Metemponychosis 1,262]

I think a cutie mark is a representation of a certain talent. That talent isn't something you control, it's something you have because it's tied to your innate being. Rarity for example, loves beauty and fashion, and what is more beautiful than gems? It also ties into their elements in the case of the main six. Rarity generously gives what is most important to her. Dresses, and fashion, by giving this to them she in essence gives up a piece of her soul, there for making her the essence of generosity.

 

Rainbow Dash's cutie mark has a could with a lightening bolt on it. That doesn't solely represent racing. Sure lightening is fast, but why the cloud? Yes, lightening technically starts in the cloud but the ground is a huge factor in lightening strikes too... so why isn't the ground also featured? What we do know is we see RD cloudbusting... a lot and there just so happens to be a cloud on her flank? In fact, racing or speed being her talent may not be her special gift but may tie into something larger. Bare with me, it's been shown the Wonder Bolts help out in time of crises perhaps THIS is who RD is destined to be. Maybe her talent is controlling extreme weather situations and being one of the best weather ponies of all time. It could be right now she's just so caught up in the glamour of wanting to be the best flier in Equestria, that she hasn't realized her true potential and the windows being the best flier could open to help other ponies. This would make sense, since RD is steadily learning to be less self absorbed and cocky as the series goes on. I'm not saying she won't be great and fast and a Wonder Bolt, but maybe she has a bigger purpose than being a show pony.

 

 

 

Lastly, even if this is their destiny, does that mean Twilight doesn't deserve it? True that if we're accepting that this is a predetermined universe she couldn't have avoided this path... but she does have free will doesn't she? Even if she doesn't, Twilight did the hard work and years of study most other foals didn't want to do. So does she still deserve it? Just as much as she ever did I suppose. It isn't like she knew this was where she was going and just sat back and enjoyed the ride. Twilight has risked life and limb to get where she is. She's saved the world how many times?!

 

What we know about Starswirl is very limited. It could be he was on this same path but since every pony has free will, he chose to deny his calling and not make friends. Or maybe since there was no danger for Starswirl to combat with the elements of harmony he did not see the purpose of embracing them and went back to his study. If Starswirl ever died, he probably died incomplete and unhappy because he didn't fulfill his destiny or he died totally satisfied because his destiny was not to become an alicorn or a prince, but just to study magic. Either way Twilight cannot be blamed for someone else's destiny, which she cannot control.

 

Cutie marks are first presented to us as a sort of symbol that a pony has understood what is it that makes him/her special, and this symbol is a graphic representation of this understanding. This makes sense for Rarity for some reasons: she was trying to make the costumes for the school presentation, she was trying to make them more beautiful and while doing so she found her "special spell" to find gems. Makes perfect sense. It also makes sense for Applejack, Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy (which got her cutie mark as she fell to the ground and understood that she loved the little animals). Rainbow Dash is different. She found her passion racing those other ponies. how do you make the leap between racing to working the weather, which is shown as her "main talent" because it's what Rarity started doing.

 

This would be perfect if cutie marks represented their destinies (as in what they they are good doing because of their talents, and consequentially, the things they would be happy doing).  Unless it's implied that Rainbow is supposed to work the weather because she is a pegasus.

 

Now, this is the same problem with Twilight Sparkle. Her talent is magic. She found her passion when she saw Princess Celestia raising the sun, even if her cutie mark manifested only when she passed the test later (because she actually DID magic?) how do you make the leap from "talented in magic" to "destined to rule". Unless of course the term "princess" means something completely different. I mean, I get the feeling that the idea is that a Princess should be a pony that understands the great power in Equestria, "Friendship", AND be proficient in magic, because it's implied that Starswirl failed in the first, but not the second. Where does this leave Cadance? We can assume that Celestia and Luna understand friendship because they wielded the Elements in the past, but Cadance's understanding is of love. Most likely romantic love. (The Pony Aphrodite... XD )  This is why I made that joke about Applejack and the Magic of Apples. So, a pony becomes ready to be an alicorn when it gains a profound understanding of it's talents?

 

It doesn't add up, IMO, and it's what's hurting my appreciation of this idea of Twilight becoming a princess.

 

Now, this whole destiny thing. A friend told me that "destiny" is different from "fate". The second being a fixed line of events that cannot be escaped. And the first is more like a potential that must be reached through personal effort. English is not my first language, so, I'd like to know if this definition is ok with you. Keeping in mind that we are talking about "destiny" here.

[Mint_Melody 91]

I'm not sure that Friendship is all the show tries to teach, and even if it is, change is life and thus part of friendship too. Seeing that friends change is healthy. My daughter is in the demographic and she is learning that sometimes painful lesson all too well. Not that it must be painful.

 

Have any of you ever read a book called, "The Witch Must Die"? The author talks about something he calls 'splitting' where in a young child's very early development they learn to split the bad from the good. I think this is transferable to MLP. Like a fairy tale, even when the show does not present a very good outright moral (A Canterlot Wedding has been accused of this) it helps children identify between good and evil and subliminally enforces that if you embrace good (or the elements are harmony) you will be successful. 

 

The show encompasses so much more than just friendship, it teaches empathy and understanding. It's fair to say Luna and Twilight aren't friends, they most certainly weren't at the beginning of Luna Eclipsed, but Twilight humanized Luna and chose to see things through her eyes and since she is the protagonist whom kids are supposed to connect with, it gives them a chance to experience empathy and know it's a good thing. Hell, even most adults could learn to embrace lessons like this. Friendship is Magic, is a horrible title in my opinion, because the show does cover so much more than just making friends. Everything from good and bad to problem solving and empathizing. The show is genius because it manages to do all of this in a way that isn't over baring but at the same time really relatable and fun, yet you always come away with a good idea of what it was trying to teach.

 

Cutie marks are first presented to us as a sort of symbol that a pony has understood what is it that makes him/her special, and this symbol is a graphic representation of this understanding. This makes sense for Rarity for some reasons: she was trying to make the costumes for the school presentation, she was trying to make them more beautiful and while doing so she found her "special spell" to find gems. Makes perfect sense. It also makes sense for Applejack, Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy (which got her cutie mark as she fell to the ground and understood that she loved the little animals). Rainbow Dash is different. She found her passion racing those other ponies. how do you make the leap between racing to working the weather, which is shown as her "main talent" because it's what Rarity started doing.

 

This would be perfect if cutie marks represented their destinies (as in what they they are good doing because of their talents, and consequentially, the things they would be happy doing).  Unless it's implied that Rainbow is supposed to work the weather because she is a pegasus.

 

Now, this is the same problem with Twilight Sparkle. Her talent is magic. She found her passion when she saw Princess Celestia raising the sun, even if her cutie mark manifested only when she passed the test later (because she actually DID magic?) how do you make the leap from "talented in magic" to "destined to rule". Unless of course the term "princess" means something completely different. I mean, I get the feeling that the idea is that a Princess should be a pony that understands the great power in Equestria, "Friendship", AND be proficient in magic, because it's implied that Starswirl failed in the first, but not the second. Where does this leave Cadance? We can assume that Celestia and Luna understand friendship because they wielded the Elements in the past, but Cadance's understanding is of love. Most likely romantic love. (The Pony Aphrodite... XD )  This is why I made that joke about Applejack and the Magic of Apples. So, a pony becomes ready to be an alicorn when it gains a profound understanding of it's talents?

 

It doesn't add up, IMO, and it's what's hurting my appreciation of this idea of Twilight becoming a princess.

 

Now, this whole destiny thing. A friend told me that "destiny" is different from "fate". The second being a fixed line of events that cannot be escaped. And the first is more like a potential that must be reached through personal effort. English is not my first language, so, I'd like to know if this definition is ok with you. Keeping in mind that we are talking about "destiny" here.

 I couldn't find a way to make two quotes in one post, so I'm just posting twice.

 

I can make the leap about RD because of her personality. She's always been shown to be a little self centered and she often misses what is important. Sleepless in Ponyville, and what ever that episode she got a pet was called show this trait in her. Rainbow's destiny IMO is to be the greatest flier in Equestria, something she discovered by racing but hasn't fully realized the potential of. If her special talent was racing, why not a cutie mark of a race track or something like that? Her astounding ability to fly could help many ponies in crises, but she may not be mature enough to understand this completely. She's caught up in the beauty of being a Wonder Bolt, and hasn't accepted the responsibility and weight she would then hold. I believe flying is her special talent, not just racing, and I believe she will use that to help other ponies in a great way.

 

And I could contend a cutie mark showing up when a pony realizes it's destiny because of Twilight. Her destiny is to be an alicorn princess, but she didn't realize that. Along her journey she's never thought, "I'm going to be a princess one day" all she knows is part of her destiny until Celestia reveals it to her in Magical Mystery Cure. 

 

Also you're right, I cannot make the leap of powerful in magic makes a princess, I can make the leap that understanding the elements of harmony and having the personality and special talent that can help many ponies in many ways makes you an alicorn and a princess. You can't just have magic, and you can't just have friends. It's a special combination of traits and personal study that opens to door to becoming an alicorn. Yes it's Twilight's destiny, but many things had to line up for it to be that way (I'm not sure if I wrote that out coherently, I'm doing two things at once, tell me if I need to fix it).

 

Honestly, I have NO idea about Cadence. I can only assume she is the goddess of love and she is an alicorn because it isn't any particular kind of love, but all kinds of it. It's shown no one else can create love in Hearts and Hooves day, only obsession but Cadence can apparently repair true love. Idk, I don't get the need for her, or the crystal empire as a whole.

 

Am I making any sense? I don't feel like I am right now. I promise, no more multi-tasking XD

Edited May 1, 2013 by Mint_Melody

[Starlight Sky 374]

Twilight has moved beyond being simply Celestia's student and is now a student of life.

 

To go where you will go

To see what you will see

To find what you will be

For it's time for you to fulfill your destiny

 

Those lyrics prove that her journey has only begun. She showed all the Elements, but added Leadership and because of that she became a princess. The wings are just the outward expression of her well earned princessship. Her friends knew as far back as Boast Busters how powerful, and special, Twilight was. If they accepted her I don't see why we can't accept her too.

 

As far as the others, and their destiny, the interaction between their cutie mark and what they do is complex. Rainbow loves racing, dreams of being a wonderbolt, but her role is being the best weather patrol pony and as she says she'll never keep Ponyville hanging.

 

Definitely agree with you there, Nature Spell. Celestia's ballad seems to give a general idea of how season four will play out. Twilight will likely journey throughout Equestria (accompanied by her friends) to learn about the needs of the other ponies and how she can help them. 

 

The show isn't losing it's focus on friendship at all. These royal duties can be generalized as mass acts of friendship since they're for the betterment of ponydom. Another way of looking at it: MAGIC = FRIENDSHIP = ALICORN. Therefore, we have simply entered a new level of FRIENDSHIP.

 

Plus, Twilight's hot minute held a good amount of foreshadowing and some future scenes as well. Everything is going to be just fine come together really well.

Edited May 1, 2013 by Starlight Sky

[Metemponychosis 1,262]

Have any of you ever read a book called, "The Witch Must Die"? The author talks about something he calls 'splitting' where in a young child's very early development they learn to split the bad from the good. I think this is transferable to MLP. Like a fairy tale, even when the show does not present a very good outright moral (A Canterlot Wedding has been accused of this) it helps children identify between good and evil and subliminally enforces that if you embrace good (or the elements are harmony) you will be successful. 

 

The show encompasses so much more than just friendship, it teaches empathy and understanding. It's fair to say Luna and Twilight aren't friends, they most certainly weren't at the beginning of Luna Eclipsed, but Twilight humanized Luna and chose to see things through her eyes and since she is the protagonist whom kids are supposed to connect with, it gives them a chance to experience empathy and know it's a good thing. Hell, even most adults could learn to embrace lessons like this. Friendship is Magic, is a horrible title in my opinion, because the show does cover so much more than just making friends. Everything from good and bad to problem solving and empathizing. The show is genius because it manages to do all of this in a way that isn't over baring but at the same time really relatable and fun, yet you always come away with a good idea of what it was trying to teach.

 

 I couldn't find a way to make two quotes in one post, so I'm just posting twice.

 

I can make the leap about RD because of her personality. She's always been shown to be a little self centered and she often misses what is important. Sleepless in Ponyville, and what ever that episode she got a pet was called show this trait in her. Rainbow's destiny IMO is to be the greatest flier in Equestria, something she discovered by racing but hasn't fully realized the potential of. If her special talent was racing, why not a cutie mark of a race track or something like that? Her astounding ability to fly could help many ponies in crises, but she may not be mature enough to understand this completely. She's caught up in the beauty of being a Wonder Bolt, and hasn't accepted the responsibility and weight she would then hold. I believe flying is her special talent, not just racing, and I believe she will use that to help other ponies in a great way.

 

And I could contend a cutie mark showing up when a pony realizes it's destiny because of Twilight. Her destiny is to be an alicorn princess, but she didn't realize that. Along her journey she's never thought, "I'm going to be a princess one day" all she knows is part of her destiny until Celestia reveals it to her in Magical Mystery Cure. 

 

Also you're right, I cannot make the leap of powerful in magic makes a princess, I can make the leap that understanding the elements of harmony and having the personality and special talent that can help many ponies in many ways makes you an alicorn and a princess. You can't just have magic, and you can't just have friends. It's a special combination of traits and personal study that opens to door to becoming an alicorn. Yes it's Twilight's destiny, but many things had to line up for it to be that way (I'm not sure if I wrote that out coherently, I'm doing two things at once, tell me if I need to fix it).

 

Honestly, I have NO idea about Cadence. I can only assume she is the goddess of love and she is an alicorn because it isn't any particular kind of love, but all kinds of it. It's shown no one else can create love in Hearts and Hooves day, only obsession but Cadence can apparently repair true love. Idk, I don't get the need for her, or the crystal empire as a whole.

 

Am I making any sense? I don't feel like I am right now. I promise, no more multi-tasking XD

Yes, you are making sense.

 

I guess that the last episode makes your interpretation way more valid than mine. If cutie marks represent a destiny and, in order to achieve this destiny, they need to make the right choices and work towards a goal to fulfill; and the cutie marks are gained when they do something that sets them on the right path, regardless of the fact that they understand or not this destiny, the season finale makes a lot more sense. Beautiful.

 

Cadance is just weird. XD Good thing the fans liked her so much.

 

Thanks for the talk.

[Windswift 2]

Honestly, I'm less concerned with the ZOMG she's a Princess thing than I am with the fact that apparently Alicorns can live thousands of years without changing.

 

I figure, Twilight can be a Princess anywhere, she doesn't have to be in Canterlot, or Ponyville or even the Crystal Empire, just where her friends are.

 

My concern is her friends. The normal ponies/pegasi/unicorns. Who are already growing up, and maybe a bit away from each other, starting with Rainbow Dash going away to Wonderbolt camp. They're gonna get old, and they're going to have families, and eventually die.

 

While Twilight, being an Alicorn, might have the same extended lifespan as Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, who have lived Thousands. Of. Years. How good are you going to be as a Princess talented at Magic as it's represented by Friendship {even her cutiemark rather shows this, I think. Six Stars surrounding the big star that is magic} when you know that, every time you make a friend, that friend is going to grow old and die?

 

As to the other question, of Rainbow Dash's major talent being weather or flying or whatever, I think they would have done better to give Fluttershy RB's cutiemark, because RB is all about the daring tricks and flying fast and stuff. The weather stuff is just the only part of what RB does that Rarity could emulate. The rest would still be equally stymied by each other's jobs/talents.

[Dolphanatic 298]

On a side note, her reaction, "Is there a book about being a princess I should read?", shows she's still the same "adorkable" Twilight. The hot minute's have only supported my belief that the writers will do the show justice make this season the best.

 

Uggh! That line was totally tacked on last minute. And don't even get me started with this whole "Adorkable" thing. As for the Hot Minute, you can tell that the wings were just slapped on with very little effort (they hardly move at all).

[Starlight Sky 374]

Uggh! That line was totally tacked on last minute. And don't even get me started with this whole "Adorkable" thing. As for the Hot Minute, you can tell that the wings were just slapped on with very little effort (they hardly move at all).

 

That line comes across quite naturally to me; saying it's "tacked" on without any real reason doesn't help your case.

 

"Adorkable" is a popular term among some Twilight fans. I just used it to say that Twilight's is still the same wonderful character.

 

Her attempts at flight appear fine. In regards to the positioning of her wings during the Hot Minute, I'm writing it off to her lack of aptitude to maneuver them well. Even if it is an animation flaw, such a minor thing doesn't bother me. It really isn't too concerning; especially when it's only for the Hot Minute videos.

[Dolphanatic 298]

That line comes across quite naturally to me; saying it's "tacked" on without any real reason doesn't help your case.

The writers were probably thinking "Wait, doesn't twilight like books? Okay, let's have her ask if there's a book for that." All sarcasm put aside, by the time

, it was obvious how out of character she had become. Simply throwing in a laugh line about "if there was a book for that" does not change the fact that this episode butchered her character.

[Nature's Spell 526]

The writers were probably thinking "Wait, doesn't twilight like books? Okay, let's have her ask if there's a book for that." All sarcasm put aside, by the time

, it was obvious how out of character she had become. Simply throwing in a laugh line about "if there was a book for that" does not change the fact that this episode butchered her character.

I'm sorry but there isn't one "Twilight" or any character for that matter. Each writer puts a slightly different spin on the characters and we all have our own prejudices and like certain character traits. Personally I loved the line, but I also loved the whole episode.

[duidamasterXD 9,627]

The writers were probably thinking "Wait, doesn't twilight like books? Okay, let's have her ask if there's a book for that." All sarcasm put aside, by the time

, it was obvious how out of character she had become. Simply throwing in a laugh line about "if there was a book for that" does not change the fact that this episode butchered her character.

Actually, Twilight has a bit of a habit of tempting fate, saying things like "At least it can't get any worse." and such, so I don't really view that as being OOC behavior for her. I'm expecting for things to go drastically wrong in the next few episodes. Can't get away with singing about how wonderful everything will be after all

[Starlight Sky 374]

The writers were probably thinking "Wait, doesn't twilight like books? Okay, let's have her ask if there's a book for that." All sarcasm put aside, by the time

, it was obvious how out of character she had become. Simply throwing in a laugh line about "if there was a book for that" does not change the fact that this episode butchered her character.

 

Let's slow it down with the accusations. Making those type of "connections" (the authors probably thought/did this because of this and not for any real reason) will make anything seem worthless. How about, it was written into the episode because it suits her character and has humor to quell fears of dramatic change which many still harbor. Don't get so caught up in your own predictions/expectations that you fail to enjoy the story being told.

 

Next off, Twilight's character has developed beautifully as the series progressed. Magical Mystery Cure brings liquid pride to my eyes from the audio alone. Twilight has reached a new level in her studies on friendship and demonstrated the ability of a true leader. There hasn't been any abrupt change in her character. If that isn't evident, I recommend re-watching THE ENTIRE BUCKING SERIES the first two episodes of season 3 (..at least).

 

Lastly, Morning in Ponyville served as foreshadowing to disaster (and a great revelation/lesson). It REALLY isn't out of character to sing that song either. Again, you should WATCH THE ENTIRE SERIES review more episodes (S3 E1+2 does well for this, too).

Edited May 30, 2013 by Starlight Sky

[username1 1]

Well she seemed happy about it in the season 3 finale and why wouldn't she want to be a princess anyways? Plus it seems kind of silly to take the wings away now. 

[WishingtotheStars 15]

I really think Hasbro needs to change her back the way she was before. I mean some people are getting mad and loosing interest in the show. Which means less money for Hasbro.

[Scootalove 10,689]

I don't think it would make sense to remove the wings now. A lot of the fans were complaining about her becoming an alicorn but, it wouldn't really be very smart to remove the wings now when she just became an Alicorn Princess.