>nightmare moon vs celestia again in the mini bracket
will they ever stop fighting?
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>>42712788
On the off-chance you're asking in good faith, here's your effortpost. Yes, it's high-stakes by the standards of Equestria (what little we know of it, since it's literally the first two episodes). It's also a goofy kid-gloves conflict that hinges on each pony's character strengths and virtues. In theory, Snooty could blow them all away with some kind of gay little alicorn death laser, of the sort that we first see in A Canterlot Wedding. In practice, she doesn't. Why not? Metatextual reasons: it's meant to be a show about conflicting personalities learning to harmonise via friendship, and not a show about who's got the highest midiclorian count. This theme carries all the way up to ACW, which is the first instance of a villain being defeated via contrivance rather than by the power of the Mane 6's friendship. Besides that, the rest of the show goes along the lines of shit like 'what if Fluttershy doesn't like this flavour of cupcakes?!' and that's the way we like it, because it still centers friendship and its associated tribulations as the core of the narrative. The defeat of Snooty and Discord were made up of the exact same principles represented by the rest of the filler episodes, just writ large.
On the off-chance you're asking in good faith, here's your effortpost. Yes, it's high-stakes by the standards of Equestria (what little we know of it, since it's literally the first two episodes). It's also a goofy kid-gloves conflict that hinges on each pony's character strengths and virtues. In theory, Snooty could blow them all away with some kind of gay little alicorn death laser, of the sort that we first see in A Canterlot Wedding. In practice, she doesn't. Why not? Metatextual reasons: it's meant to be a show about conflicting personalities learning to harmonise via friendship, and not a show about who's got the highest midiclorian count. This theme carries all the way up to ACW, which is the first instance of a villain being defeated via contrivance rather than by the power of the Mane 6's friendship. Besides that, the rest of the show goes along the lines of shit like 'what if Fluttershy doesn't like this flavour of cupcakes?!' and that's the way we like it, because it still centers friendship and its associated tribulations as the core of the narrative. The defeat of Snooty and Discord were made up of the exact same principles represented by the rest of the filler episodes, just writ large.
>>42493059
Lots of modern monarchies are run as republics in practice, but they don't call themselves republics, because by definition, they aren't. The same thing happens from the opposite end with countries like North Korea, which are one-party dictatorships in practice, but still call themselves republics because their modes of government technically meet the definition. This is all setting aside the idea that Nightmare Moon (or even Luna, who's fond of following tradition) would even consider calling it that, when it appeals neither to the definition of the term nor her own sentiments. I don't exactly envision her as wanting to set up a parliament to make the name fit.
Lots of modern monarchies are run as republics in practice, but they don't call themselves republics, because by definition, they aren't. The same thing happens from the opposite end with countries like North Korea, which are one-party dictatorships in practice, but still call themselves republics because their modes of government technically meet the definition. This is all setting aside the idea that Nightmare Moon (or even Luna, who's fond of following tradition) would even consider calling it that, when it appeals neither to the definition of the term nor her own sentiments. I don't exactly envision her as wanting to set up a parliament to make the name fit.