thoughts on the season five finale.

So after reading several blog posts on this particular subject I’ve decided to make my own explaining why the season finale sucked, AND giving VALID justifications for my reasons.

Starlight Glimmer was first introduced in the season five premiere, in these two episodes we find out Starlight has forced her “Everypony should be equal” bullshit philosophe on a whole town of ponies. Speaking of being equal, how could she not see how flawed her plan was? There is no such thing as equal in any society, (even in her own utopia of equalness she was not equal, she took everypony’s cutie mark but her own. YET ANOTHER FLAW IN HER CHARACTER!) But back to the whole equalness thing, there is no society anywhere in existence where everyone is equal. It is simply not possible, there will always be someone who is determined to rise above everyone else. So her very actions for being a villain were completely flawed from the beginning.

Then we move into the fact that she FORCIBILY removed the mane sixes cutie marks. At least everypony int he town gave up their cutie marks on their own FREEWILL. So once again we see how hypercritical and illogical her grand scheme really is. (how did the writers not see this themselves?)

So after the season premiere where Starlight Glimmer has been defeated and the town has their cutie marks back Starlight has the entirety of SEASON FIVE to stew in her hatred and resent of Twilight and her friends. This is actually a HUGE POINT you have to take in consideration of the season five finale. (we’ll get to that later).

Right now let’s take a look at Starlight’s mentality.

We know in her youth she felt betrayed by Sunburst getting his cutie mark and just leaving her up and dry. (we’ll also get back to his point later.) and as a result she decided to take it upon herself to rid Equestria of cutie marks so everypony is equal. (Except herself of course. AND GOOD LUCK TRYING TO GET THAT PAST CELESTIA!) to do this we see she is willing to forcibly strip ponies of their cutie marks. This shows she has practically the same mentality as a sociopath.

A sociopath by definition is someone who is willing to do WHATEVER IT TAKES to achieve their goals. This includes lying, cheating, stealing, manipulating, and just a whole bunch of other unpleasant things. (I’ve actually studied up on sociopaths so I know what I’m talking about). And sociopaths are able to do all this because they have LIMITED EMPATHY. Empathy allows people have to be able to relate to other people. It also allows them to see and understand the other people’s perspective and points. As opposed to a sociopath who can only see that their views and beliefs are the right ones.

So after all this time during season five where Starlight’s hatred for Twilight and her friends only grows and grows, it finally comes to a climax when Starlight sends Twi into a time loop in order to stop the sonic rainbowboom.

There are several plot holes I have found with this. (we’ll also get to this later).

While Twilight is stuck in these time loops she sees many different ways Equestria is doomed, each one worse then the last. (again more plot holes in this bit which we’ll get to later) Eventually Twi stops going through the time loops long enough to start trying to talk some sense into Starlight. (Remember how I explained how she was a sociopath?) Well there is no way in hell Twi would have gotten through to her in that short amount of time. Starlight would have kept insisting Twi was lying, even going so far as to believing that Twi would show her illusions of Equestria’s destruction if sh stopped the rainboom.

So my question is this.

How in the world does a SOCIOPATH who hates Twi for DESTROYING her made up world of perfectness suddenly start caring about what Twilight says when she clearly did not believe the very proof of seeing Equestria’s destruction? How does she suddenly switch off and put aside A LIFETIME OF RESENTMENT towards cutie marks, and how does she suddenly ignore A WHOLE SEASON OF HATRED SHE FELT TWOWARDS TWILIGHT? The very fact she has a limited level of empathy would mean it is physically impossible for her to start being able to see and agree with Twi’s point of view. She even went as far as to start destroying the time traveling spell so the future could not be altered after she changed the past. There is no way someone with this much hatred and resent towards the world suddenly starts feeling remorse because of a heartfelt speech of remorse.

It even took Discord several days of being with Fluttershy to agree to become formed, and that was only after he tricked Fluttershy into not using her element of harmony against him and realized that he actually did like the friendship and kindness Fluttershy showed him. But even after all this he still tip toes the line between good and evil.

Starlight on the other hand is completely filled with malice and hate towards Twilight so there is no way she would suddenly change just because of a heartfelt speech of friendship.

Now it has been pointed out to me that Starlight would take into consideration that there was a POSIBILTY that Equestria would be destroyed if she continued with her plan, and not wanting to start Armageddon she accepts Twi’s offer of friendship and becomes reformed.

I agree that Starlight is capable of seeing the threat to Equeastrian life, but I disagree she would suddenly switch her whole personality and mentality around just because of a heartfelt speech. SOCIOPATH, remember? So I believe Starlight would not take the chance of causing Equestria’s doom and instead look for other ways to hurt Twilight once she gets back to the real present.

This ending for the season would have been so much better for the finale. We would have had the promise of Starlight returning as a reoccurring villain throughout future seasons possibly mucking up their adventures and cuasing all kinds of mischief,

But nope, they just had to go reform her in a completely unrealistic way.