My biggest problem with the Unity Crystals is creating them is absolutely not something Twilight would've done, and even if she did consider it the rest of the mane 6 would've shut it down immediately. It also annoys me that the reason the Unity Crystals were created was for something they were able to overcome on a much larger scale before.

When one fan can make a better story than a team of "professionals".

Honestly can't help but think to the episode where Twilight kept trying to teach Starlight that you can't use Magic to solve all your problems and to set aside differences and see how they make us special. Then proceeds to throw all of that out the window and try and solve social problems with magic, forcing everyone to never have an opinion or naturally work out their differences without much thought about anything else.

Problem is, the comic established that Opaline was the one that started the division, which shouldn't happen UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES unless you completely ignore that seasons 8 and 9 exist, which you can't. Not to mention the blatant character assassination of Twilight, who had proven herself to be a paragon of friendship and she would NEVER stoop to the level of Season 5 Starlight Glimmer.

Now I wonder how all this tie in with Twilight appearing and saying, "I am with you". Sunny will say, "You messed up!"

Knowing how G5 is doing right now, I doubt they would care enough to make a story as interesting as this, they'll probably do something stupid like everything they've done so far

Maybe the reason twilight is her pre-finale look is because she experienced the same thing as luna in season 1 ; She used up all her power so her form reverted to normal. She may have used all her magic to store magic away in the crystals.

What these crystals do remind me of what the kirins did in Sounds of Silence from season 8. Remember how much they argued and their solution was just to shut up possibly for forever instead of talking it out and dealing with their anger a healthy way? It would be interesting if they would take a similar route with it, because that episode had a lesson that never not be relevant.

I really hope that the dark and evil "Unite or die" crystals are because your reasoning, and not twilight. Because I always thought from the beggining that the PRINCESS OF FRIENDSHIP should Never FORCE anyone to be friends with the threat of evil portals and death over their heads!

This reminds me also of the Sounds of Silence episode where the kirin leader decided "arguing is not allowed" and enforced this through her authority. And then we're literally told it wasn't a good solution and there's a better way.

Reminder removing magic means she basically just did what that crazy filly wanted. You know the one she turned to stone for her plans? After sending her to Tartarus? Ya that one.

i would love a story like this, but unfortunately, i don't think the writers know what they're doing enough to pull something like this off

Basically it feels like the crystals are a literal cop out. Instead of putting in the effort to become better people/person and growing from the confrontation. I don’t think Twili made the crystals, when I think of crystals I think of Cadance or Flurry Heart. 👀

Sadly the odds of Hasbro doing this level of sophisticated storywriting for a show that they admit is now aimed at the pre-school demographic are about as likely as G5 being a worthy successor to G4 under ANY circumstances.

It's amazing how fans can come up with a better story than the actual writers of gen 5

My theory, based on the g5 comics: Twilight ruled over Equestria, everything was just like when g4 ended. Suddenly, Opaline - a mysterious alicorn - appeared and used her unknown and dangerous magic to make ponies argue. Everything started to become different, ponies didn't trust each other, argued. Big danger came to Equestria. Twilight wanted this to end - she wanted to capture Opalines magic, so she wouldn't hurt anyone anymore. Twilight decided to take all of the magic of Equestria, and place it in the crystals. But that wasn't a good idea - Opaline was gone for a long time, but her magic infected the crystals. Soon, the crystals were seperated - three pony kinds found their place to live. I'm not sure how, but every kind got the crystal representing them (for example queen Heaven had the pegasus crystal). They remembered something and some ponies were meeting each other, but then they forgot about what happened and stopped meeting. We know that mane 5 changed everything and made the magic come back, but that also made Opaline come back. She wants her powers back, and now is trying to get the crystals so she can get it. And what I meant by saying that Opalines magic infected crystals is that when her power was captured, it made the crystals glitch. Whenever a ponies are arguing, or sad, the crystals start to glitch and make everything dangerous. It's like Opalines power, but different, inverted. I know it's messed up but that's my theory!!

2:53 The Windigos had a similar concept, however it took major conflict to get them to show up rather than just one little argument to get the crystals glitching.

When Cozy Glow drained magic from equestria, Celestia said "when the sun sets on the third day magic will be lost forever" this can't happen because without the magic lost in previous days the sun can't set. Even through this it does and everyone is worried. They have no reason to be so scared of the sun setting on the third day if it can't do that!

The problem is in the movie, it's in the movie that the three ponies tribe were being told to get along. In Make Your Mark Special, the Pegasus and Unicorn magically get along very well the other pony races. It's the Earth Ponies that unhappy that they have no magic while the other two have it when previously they'll be equally non-magic, now it's not the same. In the special, the Crystal of Unity solution is to create chaos and if they help each other, then the Crystal will end this chaos and Earth Ponies will be granted their very own magic.

So that would make Opaline's story very similar to Starlight Glimmer's. It could be interesting, but I fear it would require too much exposition to explain everything, and a lot of people would be upset if the comics became canon. Either way, I do hope they get rid of these crystals somehow. I'm pretty sure they're the worst plot device the MLP franchise ever came up with.

What if Opaline was the one that got reformed and Misty was still evil? I kind of like the idea of Misty to stay evil instead of getting reformed in this episode. Reformation can come later for her. Just a crazy idea.

I don't think she removed all magic, as cutie marks exist n stuff. I think she only removed ponies magic, and kept natural magic that's in nature.

No bc I’ve thinking this too, they’re too temperamental, did the crystals know that healthy arguments exist too?? Friends don’t have to agree on EVERYTHING

The thing I loved most about FIM is that when there was clear conflict, it was solved properly. Like you would do in real life, with the stages of explanation/expression of feelings, apologies and moving on. like twilight said herself when she and the others defeated Discord; “Friednship isn’t always easy but there’s no doubt it’s worth fighting for.” This quote is portrayed throughout the show as the mane 6 face issues that at first they wanted to just let it ruin their friendships but they realised that friends can argue and fight, they WILL argue and fight. This isn’t really portrayed in G5, The MYM series especially. instead like you mentioned in the video they kinda just said QUICK WE NEED TO STOP FIGHTING BEFORE IT DESTROYS THE PLANET instead of taking the time to talk out their problems. Overall I think that FIM was more educational when it came to friendship and how it works, how you should treat your friends and how it’s okay to argue with your friends because ultimately it brings you closer together.

These crystals are the exact reason why I called the Crystal Empire a gilded cage death trap! Yes, the Empire is pretty, but the Crystal Heart was powered by and tooo reliant on the positivity of its rulers and citizens. Just one bad day from either Cadence, Flurry, or the entire Empire could kill them all. Flurry's cries shattered the heart, in the comics the Heart dimmed because Cadence felt like a useless 'Pretty Princess' than an actual person, and when the Empire lost its luster due to Sombra, the Empire was exposed to the deadly cold. The current crystals are also too dependent upon positive energy and nearly destroyed Maretown Bay. I would not be surprised if Twilight created these crystals based off of the Crystal Heart, flaws and all.

Twilight: and magic makes it all complete! Also Twilight: **removes magic**

I honestly love the idea you have. It makes Opaline much more complex and not a cartoonish villain, sets up a character arc for Sunny, and would make Misty working with Opaline a little more sense if Opaline is actually nicer to her, almost motherly.

My theory as a person who loves g4 better than g5: (Backstory) Everything was going smoothly, twilight was ruling equestria everything was fine. Suddenly luster dawn being her immature self found new friends (at the end of season 9) anyway so one of her new friends was opaline, and I believe that opaline would be a Pegasus. Twilight and luster showed opaline around (opaline probs an orphan no idea she was traveling around to find her parents but hope was lost and she cam across luster dawn who decided to give her family and friendship… Now that opaline was shown how beautiful magic was and how powerful it was she instantly felt a powerful connection wanted it all. But she couldn’t because she was just a Pegasus and didn’t really have any magic. Thus she starts creating disputes on twilights name. Like how chrysalis, tirek, cozy spread rumors she did the same except that she was special cause she was known as “twilights student and lusters friend” so she was respected and whatever she said caused disputes between the pony tribes. Luster noticed the pony disputes and saw that opaline wasn’t true to her friends and power. As luster tried to inform twilight she didn’t believe so as opaline already prepared a story. Luster being disregarded, twilight noticed opalines actions different. But she thought It was a positive cause. Soon enough just with lies, twilight turned opaline into an alicorn exactly as opaline planned everything would be. Luster was disregarded everytime. Soon windigos started appear all due to opaline. Twilight noticed this and opaline started to take advantage of her powers. Opaline took magic from other ponies, weakened them and destroying land as she has magic being an alicorn. Twilight fought opaline. At this point opaline was power hungry. Twilight summoned the most powerful beings of equestria (her friends and stuff) but they were gone in defeat as her power was almost equal to twilights and no one was powerful as twilight. Soon opaline defeated them all to death and twilight lost hope. She battled her one on one and since there was no friendship there was no hope and power in twilight. Twilight flees the battle from opaline and makes a decision. She makes the crystals possible knowing that even if she sacrificed herself it would be the best for equestria. She created the crystals by sucking up all the magic from equestria including whatever opaline had, (opaline managed to keep some of her magic ig). The extreme power usage was taking up all of twilights strength. Knowing she would be sacrificed she went ahead and left a note to luster who was alive in the battle ground. Twilight being sacrificed and gone, luster saw the crystals, read the note, and immediately ran for her life and took the crystals. But she bumped into opaline. Being a unicorn with some powerful strength she sucked some magic from the crystals and teleported and threw the crystals into the random places, as we know them today bridle wood, zephyr heights, martime bay. Opaline soon found her and took her life and magic. But the magic somehow was take back by the crystals. Opaline deciding to use the bit of her magic to make that castle for herself. Lost it all. Meanwhile people of equestria powerless and having disputes split as three tribes were the crystals where located. And that was how g5 was created. 😭

As much as I'm willing to keep an open mind about G5, since plenty of shows that started our mediocre or bad got good as time went on, two problem I can't ignore is it being a "be happy and nice or bad things will happen" lesson. We've seen it before and it really angers me. My feelings are my own to feel as long as I'm still controlling myself and not hurting anyone. Why do I need to just shut up and only be positive? Cause it's convenient for everyone else? Csuse then I can focus on their problems? No f*ck that! The only time I've seen this concept of "just be happy and nice" work is in Inside Out, and that movie was all about how toxic positivity is bad for you. The second problem is what this show does to Hitch. Why was he a more confident and competent character in the movie... when he was racist for most of it? Just because he has Fluttershy's abilities and male doesn't mean you have ti give him Fluttershy's flaws and also make him dumb.

I dont call Twilight an idiot because she never learned about unity. Only what it means to be friends

Twi's decision is like a mix between Cozy Glow's plan and Starlight's village... I'm accepting this show as an alternate reality. I'm not accepting it as lining up with G4 XD

this would make for a great story arc in the show,your a fantastic story teller star strike,I really enjoyed it

Remember at the very end of the season? When the mane 6 went to the crystal empire to meet up with Twilight who was rumbling about the plan for her to save her friends? And as the mane 6 ask for her guidance....she has completely lost all hope? Saying that everything they did to protect Equestria didn't matter? Sombra? Discord? Tirek? Chrysalis? Cozy Glow? How no pony could see just how much harmony means... everything? How she was willing to give up completely because of how ignorant every other creature was? That's what I think went through her again....no pony was ever going to set aside their differences....and I think... judging by how rapidly the mane 6 grow old while she remains immortal? She probably didn't get any logic support on what to do with all the disharmony happening in Equestria....and let's not forget the many times ponies have just been racially profiling not only their own species but others like Griffons?Dragons? What if Twilight thought this was her last straw and that if they wanted to keep magic? They'd need to learn to get along the hard way.....as her way didn't work she probably had enough. Hence why I think that she figured that even though this was cruel....she had faith on whoever pony could figure out a way to make things right. In conclusion to all this... I think...she is still alive, and it's only a matter of time before we'll probably see her through episodes along the way.

One of my longest videos yet... and somehow it still wasn't enough time to go over everything lol. I actually had to cut about 10 minutes of content just to get this out by today. :P This was originally going to be on my list of reasons as to why G5 is doomed to fail, but I had too much to say on it, so it became it's own video.

My theory is Opaline plans to unentangle the crystals from magic making sure it never shuts magic off even though the ponies have disagreements.

But it's just a theory!!!!😂

At this point, bloody killer pinkie pie is less of a case of character assasination than whatever tf they made with Twilight

Your so Good making videos😂🎉😅😊

I'm imagining Mermaid Man's quote, "EEEVILL!!!" watching this. 😆

Making those friendship Crystal was probably not a good idea, because this magic is unpredictable if some ponies have argument a dark black hole will appear or if Opulean get it something tells me, she'll create giant void monster by accident. I guess Twilight over analyzed everything, when the ponies started fighting again and I think and when a Pony war broke out, I think Twilight just gave up on pony kind and just left for 100s of years ago. She did these because I think her friends die of old age, leaving her most only where she, then whet a little crazy with out her friends. She Also, probably seal everyone's magic into the Friendship Crystal, but I think when she did this it might've cause Dragons and other magical creates to disappear by accident. And she could've sealed her self as punishment.

Does anybody remember how there was an episode in either season 7 or 8 about the Kirirn, where they used a pool of silence or something to give up their voices because of how it allowed people to fight when they had them, and it would cause destruction, and the resolution was fluttershy and applejack teaching the kirin that you had to learn how to control your emotions or handle them or release them in a safer manner rather than get rid of them completely? These crystals are like the same situation, which makes it harder to believe that Twilight made them.

Bro that whole ending plot was like a whole fan fiction this dude just wrote a whole mlp fanfic lol this channel is amazing

I like your idea But am I the only one sick of the "Oh the poor little henchgirl of the villain, she's not evil, she just haven't found real friends and she must be rescued by us" - trope ?

totally irrelevant but i love your OC design. simple but unique!

I could see Sunny realising Twlights flawed logic and releasing the magic inside the crystals

this is so much better than what actually happened in the later chapters

Honestly its a good story but the way I see it the crystles in the make your mark speical where still un stable witch is why there were storms at the smallest fight and all the ponies had to come together to stablize them and unlock there true power.

I'm hoping the crystals eventually get Shattered when magic grows powerful enough for ponies to maintain it on their own. The magic glitches and voids could be explained because only our mane 5 were maintaining the magic. Everyone else wasn't yet on board with being nice with others. I don't agree with the role of the crystals. But they do still make for good mystery and story. But that story is only one sided in favor of "What happened in G4?"

I like this one way better than the original storyline

they should hire you to write a mlp storyline

Omg that episode plan was AMAZING! Although.. how did opaline outlive twilight by 1,000 years? 😂 if she was a student at twilights school

This was a pretty awesome idea. Far better than mine even from my vid yesterday, if I’m being honest. Dunno if hasbro is ever gonna go with this choice but it would seem to be the best Choice for now.

Can they hire Star to be head writer, please!

What makes this even worse is pegasi need magic to fly. Must have been a bad day for them

At this point, I refuse to believe that G5 is canon in the same universe with FIM..

after viewing chapter 2 i cant help but wish this was how things went

I’ve been so annoyed with the Crystals ever since they showed up at the end of the movie. Literally, having the ponies lose their magic from being at odds with each other happened at the end of season 9 with Tirek, Cozy Glow, and Crysalis- and NOWHERE did Twilight think to say “Hey let’s essentially pull the plug on magic incase any pony fights.” So when this random deviantart oc Alicorn tries THE SAME EXACT THING- then Twilight puts all of Equestria in timeout-? Leave them to spread rumors about one another and live separately without magic? Are we sure this is the same Twilight Sparkle we know-? Cuz it doesn’t sound like her.

The fact that it took you this long to figure out that the Magic Crystals are terrible is the most shocking thing of this review. I already figured it out long ago when the movie came out because it forces conformity and prevents conflict of every form: including Verbal conflicts like simple disagreements and arguments which while is considered to be rude in certain circles of thought, one must remember that it is through Arguments that it is an essential element for Discussion, Conversation, and ultimately Change and Evolution of societal norms. To those who are fans of _Star Trek,_ I would like to point towards the Tellarites: a verbose and conflictive species that always begins every single conversation with an open insult. The greatest wars that Tellarites fought in were not about resources or territories, but viewpoints and ideals, and because of their verbal nature many of these early conflicts were quickly resolved and led to the Tellarites adopting a policy of viewing every possible viewpoint in a conflict or debate. To a Tellarite, not responding to a viewpoint with a verbal counterpoint is considered entirely rude in their culture as it symbolizes close-mindedness. But beyond that, it also limits the world that Sunny Starscout and her friends could explore in due to how the Crystals have essentially imprisoned the story to be around Maretime Bay instead of an open world adventure that G4 was popular for due to the vast landscapes and locations that the Mane Six could travel to and visit instead of being cooped up in Ponyville 24/7. The story is literally held hostage by the very MacGuffin responsible for G5s' story to exist in the first place; by making them just as important if not more-so than the main characters are.

Can't wait for some great content as usual, Star Strike!

Had they gone with a Sauron and the one ring type of story, I'm sure I would have been more invested. Imagine opaline needing to steal them not for the power they can grant her, but the fact that the crystals are bound to her life. Destroying them kills her, making her either a villain, or a victim.

Why the Unity Crystals was a stupid plan: Opaline made all the ponies hate each other, and they just fell for it, and did so. To make sure magic never pitted unicorns, pegasi, and earth ponies against one another, Twilight gathered all the world's magic and placed it in three crystals. As long as these crystals were protected, and all ponykind lived in harmony, magic would be kept alive and well in Equestria. While that work for a while, I feel Twilight would’ve realized it wouldn’t work in the long run. Also, I feel during this time before destroying the crystals, and making magic the way it was before, the mane 6 should’ve found a way to expose Opaline. Twilight can record things with her magic, and show things and playback them as images. She can use a spell to record things and playback them as images. I also find it hard to believe that ponies would believe a pony they barely know into hating each other.

The story you were making up sounded much better and I wanna watch it if someone animated it.

I like this idea for the new make your mark special, I hope it follows a story similar to this or better. My hopes for this generation being good are low and I see way to many moments in equestrian history repeat. I hope misty is more a background character rather than a sunset shimmer waiting to happen. My view is still open to change if the show takes a different path than what it's on now and I really hope this next chapter will get better as it goes on.🦄🐴💎

One day everyone is going to go "hey, remember when my little pony ripped off 1984?", and that saddens me

I WILL NEVER FORGIVE THEM FOR WHAT THEY DID TO TWILIGHT. I mean there is no way Twilight made such a rash and stupid decision after all those years of learning lessons about true friendship and getting experience by working with her friends for finding solutions. THIS IS CHARACTER ASSASSINATION!!😡😡

3:00 There might be a way to save MLP G5 without scrapping the story. It looks like Opaline was twisting propaganda and shifting the blame of turning off magic to Princess Twilight. History is almost always written by the victors in conflicts. :)

This is like "friendship or die"

Infinently better than what we got.

You singlehandedly fixed it. That's amazing! You're a very talented writer!

Also I kinda doubt the plot will be as good, wishful thinking, but I’d be very surprised. You though, you should work for the writing team. I loved your version so much

Fantastic story I really got pulled into the story! I can’t wait to hear more of your stir telling.

These are some beautiful thoughts about unity with freedom. I hope more people realize that force and authority will never bring about true unity but will unite everyone in misery, with the exception of the elite leadership.

Hey if you think about it, this is basically the exact same this that happened to the pillars, six friends protect their world from threats, another joins and wants to help in a different way, the six discover what they were doing and banish them.

I really like your story theory as it make vsense and it really fits with the narrative! I really hope that the creator of G5 would write something like this in order to turn things around for the better. ^^

DIDNT we have a whole episode with the KIRIN ponies saying we should accept all that comes with being yourself the good and the bad and that its part of life ?

POV:He kicks out Sparky

I think it would be cool to have a "villain" with the goal of getting rid of magic not only bc of the class problem and that unicorns will always have higher status bc of their magic but also to protect the world bc almost all villain who caused destroction had magic. What if a enemy used magic to destroy the world and the rest of the world didn`t had the power to bet him. Getting rid of magic would be safer for everyone and the ponies lived without magic with basicly no problems (exept boredom).

Not sure if it’s too early to say, it may be revealed, but that unicorn in the comic of skipping line has hair loops just like Opaline.

The rewrite you have made was absolutely GENIAL

This theory sounds sooo good, I wish it was canon.

I think Opaline has gone crazy for living all those years well maybe 1000 years and she outlived all her servants and maybe allies or friends so she has a soft spot for Misty but also shows rage towards her for all those years she spend alone and wants full control so she wont leave also. But I hope we get a backstory of Opaline. I think she has a very bad past,maybe she was born an alicorn like Flurry Heart or maybe its Flurry's sister?

G5 destroyed everything that made G4 special. Everything they mane 6 fought for, believed in, every lesson they learned erased in a couple of generations. Fucked up if you ask me.

I thought this was a pretty good idea and definitely gave us a through line on how to progress the story and personal conflict between the main character and main villian (which we never really got since they always did that villian stuff through misty making it overall weaker)

This was absolutely amazing. Wow. How are you not hired to be honest.

I'm gonna be so disappointed when the writers of the show don't come up with anything like this. Literally everything that's happened in G5 has been more disappointing to me every time something new comes out >.>

Your version is so much better bro. I just feel so sad about Twilight being the dumb one tho. I think that it would be better if they didn't bring up Twilight in gen5 at all tbh. It just destroyed her beautiful legacy.

This is definitely a very good theory! Keep up the good work!😊

Hmm, I like your idea and it also gives me an idea as to how to incorporate the Unity Crystals into the concept for a multi-Gen MLP film, plus an ulterior hidden motive, another 'darker' reason as to why Twilight had to create them, In my story idea there's this incredibly powerful ancient villain called Mara Dreamdancer (who was once herself a Pony but had become mutated by dark magic and turned into the malevolentolent and manipulative, mind-controlling villain the Pony World had ever known), she's kind of a cross between Skeletor and Mumm-Ra except for she sort of resembles an Alicorn, (except she is not actually one and hates them wisinisterester passion). Anyway, after some research into long forgotten history from before the known timeline Twilight somehow suspects the close return of some previously unknown enemy is somehow returning to their world after this villain had been sealed away for over 4000 years and realised a horrifying truth, almost all the villains and antagonists had been manipulated, most of all the accidents and bad decisions were orchestrated by this one arch-villain, Twilight then figures out why this secret villain has been doing this... Mara is collecting all the dark magic that has been created by all this so that she can escape her nightmare dimension/prison...

Opalines actual intention: haha im alicorn that equals ruler so bow and fear my might hahahaha

Incredibly sad that this didn't happen in the actual show :/ maybe in future seasons

honestly i would love to see your ending in the show! 😍 its great

They should hire you. You're cool with these theories and rough synopsis.

I'm pretty sure that all the evil laughing and the cruel sh(#ting on Misty is a clue that Opaline is not a good guy. But, I guess we'll see what happens.

I personally would change thr creator of the crystals, i would do it more like "they found an old castle, they entered the main hall and saw the history written on colorfull windows. There was one that cauth their atention. On it was a creature that they never seen and main 6. It looked like the creature created the crystals not twilight." And then they found a book where someone like idk maybe starlight wrote that the main 6 tried destroing the crystals and insted they banished the creator AND themselfs because of combinating their magic with the creatures magic. And as the story was told for generations it has changed.

StarStrike is literally unicycling g5’s writing. LIKE THIS IS ACTUALLY A BRILLIANT PLOT!

Honestly, I'm pretty sure your Rough Idea, is still going to be league better than whatever they actually have planned for Make Your Mark chapter 2

I WANT THIS! I ACTUALLY WANT THIS STORY! I always stood up for G5...But, now...I actually think THIS will work! I think I get so mad at people saying "G5 is canceled!" or "G6 is confirmed" is because I actually love these six...Especially, Pipp! (If anyone calls her "smol" again, I will hunt you down, make you play Phasmophobia, and let you be killed by a demon, because I'm not going to kill anyone IRL...) But I actually have to agree that so far, each episode stands on its own and there's very low continuity and it's impossible to tell your tale when you rely on a KZfaq series of the same name to do it for you. So, if they did a RECALL for G5, disband the MYM and TYT, kept the MOVIE...they could take THIS idea to please EVERYONE! Those who like the characters STILL get then can still have them, and those who didn't like the story, gets a better one! Also bring back the Movie's actors...risking budget can save a series...think about Harry Potter...it's budget was risked to make the sets perfect and it the long run, the sets stay up for over a decade, enough for all 8 movies and longer, and the fans we're willing to watch the movie earning that money back!

The Dictatorship of Friendship.

That was great! I hope they do the exact thing in the show!

I honestly feel like this could be a really amazing story! I have no idea what Opaline has planned, but I feel like a story like this would make the most sense. If it does turn out this way, it could not only be a great story, but a great moral for kids to learn, which is the intended audience after all.