I would include backstory for important characters in the FiM show. How did Discord come to be? Who are the two sisters' parents? What does Starlight Glimmer's cutie mark mean? How did Cadance become an alicorn (addressed in a book but never on the show)
I would not have made Celestia and Luna retire. In my opinion, Twilight Sparkle should be princess of friendship not princess of everything.
I would cut out every single ship tease for Fluttercord.
One thing I’ve never understood about Queen Chrysalis is the fact that whenever she wanted revenge she focused all her efforts on Starlight Glimmer and completely overlooked Thorax. Thorax was just as much a part of defeating Chrysalis as Starlight was and Chrysalis even said he was a traitor in her eyes. I would have loved an episode where Chrysalis challenged Thorax.Taking this show wayy too seriously in the spoiler.
Thinking about the movie...
I think the movie was too spread out to be worthwhile. I don't mind it focusing on a few ponies. Baby Lickety Split's arc could have been more meaningful if we could start off with a few instances of her messing up in various areas building up frustration, with people comparing her to another pony, say...Baby Crumpet? That sounds good. Perhaps have something hinting towards the Smooze early on, such as BLS learning about it in school or something. She can ruin the show as normal with Spike in tow, and then leaves. Baby Crumpet is praised for her performance meanwhile. Maybe Baby Crumpet does something innocent but it starts a domino effect that leads to the Smooze being unleashed.One thing I’ve never understood about Queen Chrysalis is the fact that whenever she wanted revenge she focused all her efforts on Starlight Glimmer and completely overlooked Thorax. Thorax was just as much a part of defeating Chrysalis as Starlight was and Chrysalis even said he was a traitor in her eyes. I would have loved an episode where Chrysalis challenged Thorax.Taking this show wayy too seriously in the spoiler.SpoilerThorax is not a very confrontational guy, as we can see by his hestitation to return to the hive when Chrysalis captured the mane 6+princesses and everyone knew the only way to get them out was to go into the hive. Chrysalis clearly knew he had left previously, but had deduced that he was too cowardly to overturn the hive. Starlight Glimmer took on a lead role in that adventure and instructed Thorax to give Chrysalis all of his love and share, and her speech (not Thorax's, unless I'm misremembering) was the one to motivate the other changelings to transform and become docile. Due to her leader role, I could completely understand Chrysalis pushing Thorax aside. It doesn't even seem like she wants her hive back, it just seems like at the end of the series she was after revenge.
I do think an episode where Chrysalis and Thorax go head to head. It would be cooler if half of the changelings turned good and the other half turn bad, but now we're setting up a war season.
Thinking about the movie...
I think the movie was too spread out to be worthwhile. I don't mind it focusing on a few ponies. Baby Lickety Split's arc could have been more meaningful if we could start off with a few instances of her messing up in various areas building up frustration, with people comparing her to another pony, say...Baby Crumpet? That sounds good. Perhaps have something hinting towards the Smooze early on, such as BLS learning about it in school or something. She can ruin the show as normal with Spike in tow, and then leaves. Baby Crumpet is praised for her performance meanwhile. Maybe Baby Crumpet does something innocent but it starts a domino effect that leads to the Smooze being unleashed.
The subject has come up before - specifically in regards to EQG - but Pinkie Pie never does have to do anything/change/explain and everyone else has to adjust to her/is made to look/feel like they didn't understand her when actually she's been a nuisance. Perhaps because she's meant to be funny (she's never once done anything I've laughed at, so I guess I don't see that side of her), but she gets away with everything and never learns any of the lessons the others have drummed into them.
Thinking specifically of I think the last groundhog dayesque EQG special where Sunset suffered for Pinkie's ineptitude but ended up being made out as the bad guy while Pinkie never apologised or even seemed to understand she'd screwed up everything. The message was garbled because Pinkie has some kind of moral immunity in contrast to the other characters.
I wouldn't have forced her into random friendships with random characters either - the show should have focused on her rebuilding her friendship with Sunburst in my opinion.
I need to watch the Maude/Starlight episode, but I found her friendship with Trixie forced, as the episode forced Trixie into suddenly being an actual villain, when she was never one, so the whole episode seemed like a big continuity error to me. They even acknowledge that the one time she was a villain was when she wasn't even in control of her actions, and then ignore it.
Might not be your taste but Trixie is def not the villain of the episode, Twilight is way more unlikeable. Girl invited the Cranky donkey, Muffin and DJ to a dinner with Celestia just to not have Trixie there. How low can someone sink? :lol:
I would change almost everything related to Daring Do. I don't mind Daring Do being a real pony but I don't think all the adventures and enemies should have been real too. It's one of the few MLP episodes that I actually stopped watching in the middle.Yes, absolutely, I think Daring Do would be better off as just a character even. Maybe there could have been episodes where Rainbow Dash meets the author expecting an adventurer just like Daring, but is disappointed to find it's an elderly pegasus who isn't up for the same adventuring that RD is. Maybe something happens near the end and RD finds that she is still awesome, just in her own way? Something like that. The Daring Do episodes never really taught anything and were (and still are) a bit of a controversial thing among some Bronies (if I'm remembering correctly). I don't know why they went that route, or why they kept bringing her back. Not sure what the kids on IG thought.
Sorry I'm late, but I mean that the episode wants us to believe that Trixie was a villain in her earlier episodes (either that or it just didn't make sense to me that Twilight was treating her like she was one - so yeah, in that case it is Twilight who looks bad.)
Maybe watch that ep again because how did they "force" her to be a villain? Twilight doesn't trust Trixie and three ponies judge her because two times she came to Ponyville she wrecked havoc, that doesn't make her a villain.
In the end Twilight also apologizes and admits she was wrong to misrust them. The entire ep is about how Twilight wants to have a "presentable" first friend for Starlight that she can show off to Celestia and Trixie ends up taunting Twilight for not actually giving her a second chance.
Trixie and Twilight suck Starlight into their petty squabble, it is almost spelled out word for word during the episode that they are both wrong in how they treated each other and Starlight *shrug*
I think this episode was one of the better ones where friendship wasn't immediatly achieved and Twilight was admitting to her flaws.
I also liked the massive act of trust in the end by Trixie still performing her dangerous act and hoping Starlight would not give up on her.
Might not be your taste but Trixie is def not the villain of the episode, Twilight is way more unlikeable. Girl invited the Cranky donkey, Muffin and DJ to a dinner with Celestia just to not have Trixie there. How low can someone sink? :lol: