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A little girl watching MLP might find it more realistic to stop a misguided evildoer by teaching them and leading them.
QuoteA little girl watching MLP might find it more realistic to stop a misguided evildoer by teaching them and leading them. This reminds me of a post I read somewhere where a dad was introducing young kids to Dungeons & Dragons, and their first reaction to seeing a goblin--which is the low level Evil Grunt of D&D--was to try to befriend it because "Maybe he's just lonely." I loved the 2017 movie but yeah, having Fluttershy be scared of the weird animals in Klugetown was so wrong. She should've been trying to free them. Incidentally, apparently there was originally a subplot where the sea ponies locked up the Mane Six and Fluttershy convinced sea creatures to free them. But it was cut for time. Starlight Glimmer actually seems a bit more nuanced than the Mane Six to me, possibly because she isn't the Element of [thing]. I really enjoyed that, even after 'turning good', she would sort of . . . try to do good things in a bad way. I'm pretty sure I remember her trying to solve a friendship problem by screwing with ponies' heads, leading to disaster. And that is my jam.I've never liked Discord, but the most recent episode with him had a particularly terrible moral. Just complete BS.
Unpopular opinion: I like to watch people debate the quality of characters in a children's show.