>>4846
>There have been episodes about her that have dealt with her traits (Once Upon A Zeppelin, Celestial Advice, several premieres and finales...)
This is true, however I felt like they didn't make any real progress with her character. Celestial Advice would seem to be the episode to cure her panic attacks, but in later episodes we see that the experience hasn't had much of a lasting change. As for Once Upon A Zeppelin, while an episode I enjoyed immensely purely for the inclusion of airships, all she came to terms with was the fact that she was famous. Maybe I was missing the point a little, but the core conflict of that episode felt a little weak to me. So when I say "actual character development", I mean in the sense that it will actually carry over in a proper story arc (by the looks of it), whereas before it felt somewhat like there was an episode reset button.
>surprisingly enough, they have been more competent than other seasons. They are still useless but at least, they have tried to do something in these last seasons.
I know, but they had called back to the episode where Shining Armor ramped up security, so I had hoped to see some added skill from training, or something along those lines. As it was it looked like the security system was super tight when Shining Armor was trying to stop Twilight, but then as soon as he was gone they all slacked off.
>>4859
>I would agree too, at least in part, I don't know what your definition of pandering is though but I do like subtle moments.
Actually we did get some examples in this very episode of what I mean by pandering: they reestablish their plan against Grogar even though I already know about it. I know why they did this, but I'm pleasantly surprised that they didn't explain in dialogue what Chrysalis was doing, especially since I know that if I were the target age for this show I wouldn't have understood what was going on in that scene without explanation (though perhaps I was more retarded than other kids my age.)
>I do wonder if it's just the animation and where suppose to to consider there to be a larger audience or we take what we see on screen?
There has to be, there were way more in the flashback Twilight had of the event. It's pretty hard to believe that less ponies turned up for it when there was a relatively new princess taking part in it this time - unless there's an undercurrent of distrust against princess twilight among the population (which doesn't seem likely but I think is a cool idea. twilight taking over more public duties like the swan ceremony and this episode, she could be interpreted as a kind of usurper.) my main beef was again the disparity of technology in Equestria, but maybe it's more equivalent to interwar (or pre-war) period than victorian, in which case it's plausible that the other ponies were listening to twilight's speech on the radio.