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>If he was so powerful, why was he so inactive in certain major plots and easily nerfed by Chrysalis' thrown? If he was so weak, than why did he seem like he was manipulating things behind the scenes at times and was brought back by Celestia to fight Tirek? This season finally made a choice and actually brought a pattern here that makes some sense. Discord underestimating and being outright dismissive of his foes is how he has been defeated before by Celestia and Luna, the Mane6 and Tirek.
I wouldn´t have considered that approach on his behavior but yeah, his theoretically questionable actions are established by a pattern in his mind. It has been repeated a few times in the series and that flaw (yet characteristic) has become as apparent as his decisions in Twilight´s Kingdom and the S2 and S4 premieres.

I will say one thing about his (original) purpose in the show just to add something here: Larson had said Discord´s main purpose was to make Twilight´s life more annoying or even impossible, becoming a huge troll whose entertainment is how Twilight can surpass his challenges and chaotic magic. He gradually lessens this regard of getting the situation out of hand over time when he interacts with other characters (Fluttershy,Spike,Big Mac...) but even when one thinks that his moves won´t have any grand scale consequences, he puts Twilight into a final test. Even if that test was well intended for guaranteeing that Twilight is a good ruler for Equestria, his flaw (even though it was perfected except for that bell they could reach) made things much worse than expected.

>This defeat doesn't feel like an arbitrary plot hole or Discord acting uncharacteristically stupid so much as a flaw he has had from the very start where he thinks he is in control only to find himself taken out by some unforeseen magical force that he discounted do to his arrogance and forgetting that he is still can be valuable to such forces.What better way for a Spirit of chaos than to lose control of his own chaotic plan? Arguably, it makes his chaotic nature stronger because chaos itself can't be controlled.
which is ironic because he should have been pretending all this time that even this unexpected problem was going to happen according to his plans. Although it makes sense to believe that because he says this: "You don´t get to do the final test in the first day of class" so it was bound to happen that Twilight would have received a little "prize" from him for this coronation.

>it fits with season 4 when many thought that he was helping Twilight Sparkle grow and learn in his own twisted way with Tirek (speaking of that, this season fits season 4 in several ways.I'm not saying you couldn't draw a line of criticism toward it, but it just fits in so many ways that are previously established. Regardless if it was intentional or not it, Discord this season actually felt woven together as oppose to having a new set of info that just makes it more confusing for us to figure out.
yeah, I thought about that finale as well because it follows almost the same formula, only that there weren´t any songs here.

>I can understand those who wanted Grogar to be his own big deal, but I actually think this was the better option. They would have had to give him his own motivation and backstory, setting him up in the final which would have cut from the main cast and probably robbed us from om good moments.
we would have needed extra time for that and things would have been different for dealing that theoretical villain.