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** Shmelluloid Studios: Something about this episode just didn\\\'t sit well with me. Not the episode as a whole mind you, I liked the idea of Trixie coming back and being a legit threat. But what ended up bothering me, was the ending, Twilight\\\'s solution to the whole problem. She\\\'s angry at Trixie for cheating, wants to defeat her in the name of honor and decency, and what does she do? She cheats to defeat her, using smoke and mirrors, special makeup effects and help from all her friends. And Trixie just suddenly decides to be good because Twilight cheated. Um... hooray?
It\\\'s not so much cheating as it\\\'s meant to provide some sort of irony. The last time Twilight beat Trixie, it was her own unicorn magic which was superior to Trixie\\\'s stage magic. Here, Twilight beat Trixie using well-planned stage magic because as long as Trixie had the amulet, her unicorn magic was superior to Twilight\\\'s, which is a stab at the fact that neither Twilight nor Trixie can really do those spells. Twilight even learned from Zecora about the right times to use her own magic, which was actually useless in this case, so Twilight knew that it\\\'d take a different kind of magic to best Trixie which was of course friendship. In light of all this, Twilight really had no other alternative, considering how much evil the amulet had made Trixie out to be, so when you think about it, the method pulled by Twilight and her friends to get Trixie to come to her senses is actually justified.
** {{bregalad}}: I was really pissed off about how this episode treated Fluttershy. First, she\\\'s seen panicking when Twilight performs her magic trick, in spite of all the critters enjoying themselves - even though it\\\'s her special talent to be in tune with them. Then, she\\\'s completely ignored by her friends, showing absolutely no signs of assertivity. And when she\\\'s sent to the Everfree Forest, she behaves like a spineless coward, instead of being, y\\\'know, shy. It feels that the writers sacrificed her entire character for some cheap laughs.
To be fair, Fluttershy really didn\\\'t even \\\'\\\'try\\\'\\\' to get her friends to listen to her, so it\\\'s more or less her own fault. Plus, when you think about it, Fluttershy is the least likely to get caught by Trixie, considering how Fluttershy is the quietest of the Mane 6.
** Shmelluloid Studios: Something about this episode just didn\\\'t sit well with me. Not the episode as a whole mind you, I liked the idea of Trixie coming back and being a legit threat. But what ended up bothering me, was the ending, Twilight\\\'s solution to the whole problem. She\\\'s angry at Trixie for cheating, wants to defeat her in the name of honor and decency, and what does she do? She cheats to defeat her, using smoke and mirrors, special makeup effects and help from all her friends. And Trixie just suddenly decides to be good because Twilight cheated. Um... hooray?
It\\\'s not so much cheating as it\\\'s meant to provide some sort of irony. The last time Twilight beat Trixie, it was her own unicorn magic which was superior to Trixie\\\'s stage magic. Here, Twilight beat Trixie using well-planned stage magic because as long as Trixie had the amulet, her unicorn magic was superior to Twilight\\\'s, which is a stab at the fact that neither Twilight nor Trixie can really do those spells. Twilight even learned from Zecora about the right times to use her own magic, which was actually useless in this case, so Twilight knew that it\\\'d take a different kind of magic to best Trixie which was of course friendship. In light of all this, Twilight really had no other alternative, considering how much evil the amulet had made Trixie out to be, so when you think about it, the method pulled by Twilight and her friends to get Trixie to come to her senses is actually justified.
** {{bregalad}}: I was really pissed off about how this episode treated Fluttershy. First, she\\\'s seen panicking when Twilight performs her magic trick, in spite of all the critters enjoying themselves - even though it\\\'s her special talent to be in tune with them. Then, she\\\'s completely ignored by her friends, showing absolutely no signs of assertivity. And when she\\\'s sent to the Everfree Forest, she behaves like a spineless coward, instead of being, y\\\'know, shy. It feels that the writers sacrificed her entire character for some cheap laughs.
To be fair, Fluttershy really didn\\\'t even \\\'\\\'try\\\'\\\' to get her friends to listen to her, so it\\\'s more or less her own fault. Plus, when you think about it, Fluttershy is the least likely to get caught by Trixie, considering how Fluttershy is the quietest of the Mane 6.
