I think I know how Twilight's Kingdom could have been better.
The season 4 finale is know for having a 50/50 divide among fans. Some like it for Tirek and his epic fight with Twilight, some others criticise it for the next to nonsensical plot. It's pretty clear that the episode was written around Twilight having a grand fight with a demon and everything was crafted backwards from that.
So here are the four most contentious points and my ideas on how they could have been fixed.
1 - the princesses' plan
So the princesses' plan was to transfer all of their power to Twilight, so Tirek doesn't get it himself.
Hmm and what exactly were they planning to do after that? Just have Twilight hiding away forever?
Well, what if Twilight was already in Canterlot and Tirek was right around the corner? Maybe he managed to get just enough power to threaten the princesses and got sneaky enough to surprise them. (Perhaps Discord helped him in that. He teleported him around the world and there was no way to track them down, until it was too late.)
And because the princesses knew they couldn't compete with them, they transferred all if their powers to Twilight, so she could go back to Ponyville and figure out the tree box thingy.
Of course, the power is too much for her to handle and she spazzes out of control. By the time she gathers herself and get to Ponyville, Tirek is already there.
Commence awesome fight scene.
2 - Discord
It's also a common point that Discord was stupid enough to not see Tirek crossing him. Being tempted by power is less of a problem. This isn't fully reformed Discord yet, after all. However, a few things could have been tweaked with.
For once, he should have been planning to overthrow Tirek. He deliberately beefed him up, just so he could steal his power in the end.
And a big change here, Ponyville has already been raided. They went for it the first time, because Discord knew the mane 6 was the most likely to stop them. They kept the princesses for last. And Discord assumed Twilight would be there as well.
And when he saw that she wasn't there (and Tirek saw the Twilight stained glass) he confessed about Twilight's existence afterwards. (which would have made the other princesses mad at him, before being sent to Tartarus.)
And that's the point where Tirek axes off Discord, because he knew he was going to double cross him.
Discord was just caught off guard, because he underestimated Tirek.
Tirek goes to Ponyville, finds Twilight in the library and the fight can commence.
3 - the princesses getting axed again
Well, let me ask you this. Did we ever see them do anything big? We heard them do big, but have we ever seen them do things?
My theory is that they're quite powerful, but not nearly as powerful as they're hyped up to be. They always needed help to banish threats larger than themselves. It was really just the elements if harmony that allowed them to fix problems like that.
Just think about it. Nightmare Moon would have easily defeated Celestia, if it wasn't for the elements. They both needed them to defeat Discord. And without the elements? Chrysalis defeats Celestia with stolen love. Get abducted by evil vines. They get decommissioned by fekking clouds.
So the princesses really are useless.
How did Twilight match Tirek then? I hear you ask. Ahh, you know she had her own power as well. And she can just ingerently match all of them, she just doesn't realize it.
4 - Twilight giving up Equestria for her friends
A smaller complaint, but still pretty prevalent. What exactly was her plan after giving all the power to Tirek? What was she going to do?
Easy. She just figured out how to open the tree box thingy.
So what do you think? What holes can you see in my version of the two parter?
Submitted May 17, 2018 at 11:15AM by JesterOfDestiny
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