even just in the finale... Discord goes against his "magical creature" nature, Trixie goes from boasting about heroic act she didn't made to keep modest about the ones she did, an hive of changelings that just about one episode before were shown as creature that laugh when one of them get hurt (see the scene in the castle in ep 25) are now creature that just wanted to be good but cannot so far...

the finale that was supposed to be an episode about the main characters didn't really feature them at all, a sun that was supposed to not move moved on its own, a song that was supposed to be there wasn't...

The ponies that albeit friendly should not really want Starlight as a leader now have Stockholm syndrome...

It gets even more scary as you go on.

Her childhood friend got a magic related cutiemark after saving her with an improvisation spell. He goes to magic school because of the potential he had.

Then he meets she again. And suddenly, he is a deluded mage-wannabe who knows a lot about theory and history but cant put all his knowledge into practice.

Oh, and yes... since meeting her again in the finale of S5 the show "main cast" has not been the "main cast" anymore in the sense that they didn't have a finale/premiere revolving around them.

Actually, in a way not even the S5 finale was really about the mane six if you forgot that the time problems were caused by their "absence" as a group.

@Derpy "making things go against their nature" -- NOOO! Not another nilbog! I had enough of those.

The problem with that is that it's a really bad sort of blanket power from the story-telling side. You can explain anything or nothing with it. It's sort of like a finite improbability generator, it can do anything you want in the story, or fail to do anything you don't want to happen.

I don't know what her special power is (I did make a guess that it's transmutation magic in the D&D sense, but that doesn't really match her well enough),

but that doesn't bother me too much because I don't know the special power of most pony characters in the show.

What if Starlight's talent is that anything Twilight can do, she can do better? (If that's what her talent is, Trixie is going to be very jelous.)

She can teleport better than Twilight, do scientific research better than Twilight, study magic better than Twilight, freak out about her friends better than Twilight, can be obsessed with satisfying her mentor and doing all the homework she sets even more than Twilight, can be socially awkward even more so than Twilight.

She does polymorphing (transfiguration) better than Twilight too.

She gets exclusive rights to star in all the season openers and finales, even pushing Twilight out of them, she does time magic better than Twilight, cast mass mind control spells on an entire town more than Twilight.

@b_jonas who was the one that created life in that object transfiguration test? Clue: it is not Starpony.

@Derpy Hmm. Didn't Twilight do that too?

Probably no.

@b_jonas You really think I would call Twily "Starpony"?

Starpony == Starlight

I think the students in Harry Potter have to do that at an early grade by the way.

the transmutation or the life creation part?

The life creation part.

anyway, I have to go now, but about the "anything Twilight can do, she can do better".... yep, sorry to be so direct but go on dreaming.

I know, that's not a reasonable power either.

It's just an annoying phenomenon.

The show had made very clear what it meant with Twilight being the "Magic"

Sure, and Twilight is still better in some things.

@b_jonas bad writing. It is called bad writing

@Derpy Yes.

@b_jonas like receiving likeable writing?

have to run for now, but yep, still have the "what magic was meant to be and why the s6 finale REALLY doesn't make sense" argument lingering.

Oh, and btw ...

Moondancer is more social awkward than Twily.

Starlight awkwardes mostly comes out of shame / I don't want to be seen as a failure.

again, there is that subtle difference between don't wanting to be a delusion and don't wanting to delude others.

most of the bad writing in Starling is because she is the focus of her doubt, whilst someone like Sunset is more worried about the damage that she did to others, not the damage she did to her social status.

hmm