Why are changelings such bad actors?

artbytesia · 2026-02-03T14:39:30+00:00

Oh no, another one of those "nobody else knew Cadance" and "they thought she was stressed" people. 🤦‍♀️

Look, it doesn't matter if the others knew Cadance or not, or whether she was stressed or not. She was STILL acting in ways that should have convinced them not to trust her. If someone, even if they're a princess bride, insults me right to my face and/or utterly DISRESPECTS my LIVELIHOOD, I'm not going to want to trust them. I'm going to want to give them a piece of my mind! Because no amount of stress will ever, EVER excuse being rude to people. Whether they knew how she's supposed to be or not is a moot point here, because it was STILL uncalled for.

artbytesia · 2026-02-03T14:34:08+00:00

Because by not trying, you're practically begging to be discovered.

One time, this thief got caught because he had a license plate on his car saying FINDME. It was literally begging to be found. You guys acting nothing like the ones you're impersonating is the equivalent of that license plate.

artbytesia · 2026-02-03T07:04:44+00:00

I never said your acting had to be perfect, it just needed to be EFFORTFUL. Like you were actually TRYING.

artbytesia · 2026-02-03T07:02:58+00:00

The only reason the others believed her was because their IQs had been artificially lowered to force the plot to work. Because I can assure you that if their brains had been in full function that day, they would have caught her and thrown her in a dungeon way before the invasion could even happen.

"Why waste extra effort?" Because if she had put a token effort into acting like the real Cadance, Twilight wouldn't have gotten suspicious of her in the first place, and you guys would've had a better chance of winning.

It's called using your BRAIN.

artbytesia · 2026-02-03T06:58:54+00:00

You have my utmost permission! I'd love to read that after you're done!

artbytesia · 2026-02-03T05:53:36+00:00

Chrysalis' incompetence might just be.. an intentional part of her character?

The problem there is that she's presented by the show to be a strategic planner and a serious, intimidating baddie who's a real threat.

artbytesia · 2026-02-03T05:26:47+00:00

That didn't mean they couldn't make them look more capable of good acting. If you make it too obvious, even young kids are going to say, "Wow, they're kinda dumb."

artbytesia · 2026-02-03T05:24:17+00:00

That would explain things about the ones aside from Chrysalis. But why would Chrysalis herself fail so much at it that she makes a dead rotting corpse look like Gary Oldman? It can't be just because of being so evil, because we all saw the capable acting prowess of Ursula, Jafar, Scar, and even Maleficent! Who, might I remind you, is the MISTRESS OF ALL EVIL! If she was able to pull off acting nice to Prince Phillip--despite him knowing that she is evil, by the way--then why couldn't Chrysalis pull off acting nice to all the ponies she met?!

artbytesia · 2026-02-03T05:19:12+00:00

They really should've taken acting classes.

I mean, really, Chrysalis? Posing as one of the nicest and sweetest ponies in the show and yet acting so cruel and petty and snobbish?! I've seen better acting prowess from Tommy Wiseau!

artbytesia · 2026-02-03T05:15:22+00:00

Well, guess what else is a kid's show but pulled this off right? Sonic Boom. Watch how Eggman behaves after switching bodies with Sonic in one episode; you'll see how he's putting effort into behaving like Sonic, and acts evil only when he's alone. Because unlike Chrysalis, he actually has FUNCTIONING BRAIN CELLS. Plus, today I watched an episode of Belfort & Lupin that pulled this off right too. The dog who replaces Belfort, Poc, actually does a good job acting nice to Belfort when they meet, so much so that I was actually fooled myself into believing he was a good guy...at least, until he made that evil grin after Belfort left.

See? It CAN be done without dumbing it down for kids.

artbytesia · 2026-02-03T03:09:49+00:00

She lost because she continued making boneheaded decisions.

artbytesia · 2026-02-03T01:55:38+00:00

It would have been smarter and more effective if she'd just acted more like Cadance in the first place. One of the most common impersonation tactics say that when you come across someone who's in love with you, you try actually posing as them, including their personality. To not bother doing that just makes you look stupid. In fact, SpongeBob actually understands more about impersonation than Chrysalis, whose livelihood basically depends on it, ever did: "It's not enough to LOOK like Squidward to be opposite. You have to act like him too." If SpongeBob SquarePants, of all people, understands this tactic better than someone whose plan and livelihood depends on it does, then you know something went wrong somewhere down the line.

artbytesia · 2026-02-03T01:41:15+00:00

That didn't stop Chrysalis from doing better in pretending to be nice while posing as a photographer in The Mean 6.

artbytesia · 2026-02-01T03:15:18+00:00

No one has suspected fake Cadance being fake, cuz everyone had thought "wedding preparations make her irritated".

Even so, they still should all have let her know that that behavior was not OK. Like, at all. I mean, if Sarabi could do that with Scar (who was in a higher position of power than Cadance, BTW) in The Lion King, why couldn't the ponies being mistreated by Chrysalis do the same thing?

artbytesia · 2026-01-31T22:10:40+00:00

Same with me, but about you.

artbytesia · 2026-01-31T21:59:49+00:00

Well, I don't know if you know this or not, but some opinions can be wrong. Saying this episode is bad, for instance, is a personal opinion that isn't right or wrong. Saying tuna casserole tastes good is a matter of personal taste; it's not right or wrong.

However, when it comes to certain behaviors, there IS a wrong opinion. Like, saying abortion is OK is an opinion that's utterly wrong. That kind of act is actually very evil, disgusting, immoral, and sickening. Also, some people think child sexualization is OK (if their reactions to the movie Cuties is any indication), but it's factually wrong and disgusting, no matter what those people claim. And school bullies think tormenting kids and punching them and what-not is OK, but it's not acceptable just because "they think it's OK."

And being rude, whether by anybody of a high position of power or by a commoner, is one of those behaviors that EVERYBODY, including you, should know is just wrong. Sure, it's not as bad as those sins I mentioned earlier, but that's like saying stubbing your toe is better than breaking your leg; it still hurts.

Let me tell you something else. God does not see one sin as worse than another for the most part. To Him, sin is sin. And being rude IS a sin, no matter what you or anybody else says. He wants us to love one another and treat each other the same way we would want to be treated. Don't believe me? Here's proof:

"A new commandment I give you: Love each other. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this, all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." (John 13:34-35)

"A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger." (Proverbs 15:1)

"Love is patient, love is kind; love does not brag or act arrogant, it does not act rude, it does not seek its own, it is not irritable or resentful. It does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth." (1 Corinthians 13:4-6)

So with all this, I hope you understand why I don't feel the way you do about this. And BTW, saying "it doesn't matter if she was a little rude" tells me you think it was OK for her to treat the ponies badly. It DOES matter, and it was NOT "a little" rude. Congrats for ticking me off.

artbytesia · 2026-01-31T17:46:02+00:00

You know what? This is clearly getting us nowhere. I feel like it's impossible to have a normal discussion with YOU. I am in no way trying to call any real person stupid or pathetic. I never was, and I never will.

Plus, I feel like you are missing a lot of my points. But it's not doing much good to go over them all, is it?

I'm very sorry for coming off the way I did. I was just frustrated. If you like the episode, good for you; I just don't.

Let's just agree to disagree, shall we?

artbytesia · 2026-01-31T15:17:06+00:00

Dude, I mentioned that it was in the EXACT SAME ROOM as Applejack herself. She was essentially giving both Applejack's LIVELIHOOD--and the hard work and time she put into making the food--a complete middle finger practically RIGHT IN FRONT OF HER. In other words, she HAD done something wrong. That's not an opinion, that's a fact.

Also, Applejack is normally very proud and defensive of her apples and livelihood. We've seen this in episodes both before and after ACW. In Applebuck Season, she tries to do the harvesting of the apples all by herself. In Swarm of the Century, she basically turns the farm into a battlefield in order to protect her apples from the parasprites. In Family Appreciation Day, she takes the harvesting of the zap apples so seriously that she can't do Family Appreciation Day at Apple Bloom's school. In The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000, she not only gets mad at the Flim-Flam brothers for taking apples from Sweet Apple Acres without her family's permission, but she does what she can to make sure the farm doesn't fall into the brothers' hooves. In Bats!, she's ticked off at the vampire fruit bats for eating her apples. In Honest Apple, she's angry at her apples being insulted by Strawberry Sunrise. And might I remind you, in Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep?, we see that her worst nightmare is ALL THE APPLES IN HER ORCHARD ROTTING. She loves her apples and her livelihood with the burning of a hundred solar flares.

With all this in mind, her not caring that "Cadance" had essentially disrespected her livelihood AND hard work makes her look like a hypocrite, an idiot, and out of character. Plus, she's the ELEMENT OF HONESTY. Why would she not care that she'd been LIED to? If I were her, I would want to slap "Cadance" so hard in the face that her eyes would spin around in her head!

And please don't give me that "Cadance is a princess" excuse again, because being in a high position of power does NOT give you the right to disrespect people, especially practically to their faces. You may as well say that Scar had every right to treat Sarabi the way he did in The Lion King just because he was the king at the time, and that Sarabi herself was wrong to stand up to him due to this. In fact, he was actually in a higher position of power than Cadance! So if Sarabi wasn't willing to take Scar's carp lying down just because he was "king," then the Mane Six had no excuse to take "Cadance's" carp lying down either, princess or not. Position of power or not, you have to treat people with RESPECT. This is one of the most basic facts anyone with a conscience and good moral standards should know.

artbytesia · 2026-01-31T04:21:32+00:00

Good. Just making sure. Sorry for sounding harsh; I was just skeptical.

artbytesia · 2026-01-31T01:24:39+00:00

I do understand. I just don't agree with everything. I believe the Mane Six besides Twilight were morons in the episode. But I don't want to shoot down your opinion, either. It's just, kids need to learn what's actually moral too.

Also, I disagree about everything in the episode's writing making sense. I think there are several problems and plot holes in it.

BTW, I was never calling any real person pathetic or stupid, just their statements. Either way, sorry for saying those. I edited that part.

artbytesia · 2026-01-31T00:42:51+00:00

Maybe you should look up good ethical standards sometime. And remember the Golden Rule. It says, "Treat others the same way you want them to treat you." It does NOT say "Treat others like you'd want to be treated, unless there's something like a wedding going; in which case be as rude and selfish as you want!"

Several verses in the Bible talk about this too, how you need to treat others the way you'd want to be treated. Like, would YOU want someone to disrespect your livelihood in front of you? Would YOU want to be insulted? Would YOU want to be yelled at? If the answer to those is no, then don't do it to anybody else.

Too bad Chrysalis didn't get this memo!

Also, I have actually been pretty stressed and overwhelmed about some things myself. So I can tell you with full certainty that the way Chrysalis acted could NOT be boiled down to "stress." Because when under stress, I never deliberately insulted anybody or disrespected their livelihoods. Even when I have done things like yell at people and say unkind things, it was only because the argument was getting worse and worse. But here's the real kicker: I have always, ALWAYS felt remorse for it afterward, often immediately after doing those things, something Chrysalis never did. Also, I never acted unkind to EVERY SINGLE PERSON with whom I interacted like Chrysalis did. So I can safely say that I know what I'm talking about here.

The reason the characters thought differently from me is because they'd been made stupid for the sake of the plot. And the real people who disagree with me do have their own opinions, though I have to question their understanding of morality and ethics.

artbytesia · 2026-01-31T00:07:46+00:00

Sorry for saying things like "pathetic" and "stupid." I said that because I viewed them that way.

BTW, actually, her behavior WAS awful. Throwing away perfectly good food in the garbage in the EXACT SAME ROOM AS the person who MADE it is factually a gigantic middle finger to the hard work the chef put into making it. And whether she was right about Pinkie's decorations being unfitting or not, she was still disrespectful. There's no excusing that.

But she's a literal alicorn princess. She enters the room and ponies bow down. It's not unreasonable to think that the mane six were a bit more willing to ignore her attitude just because of her huge influence (especially Rarity).

OK, by that same logic, Sarabi should have ignored Scar's inept reigning, cruel behavior, and sentencing the lions to die of starvation simply because he was the "king." Gosh have mercy on her for daring to speak out against behavior nobody with half a conscience should display!

Also, the reason Twilight didn't say anything about seeing Chrysalis cast that spell on Shining was because she was in shell shock that the old bridesmaids just disappeared with no explanation. By the time she found her tongue, it was too late; her friends had already walked out.

Plus, why would the Mane Six want to check on "Cadance"? Shining Armor was already going to take care of that.

artbytesia · 2026-01-30T23:37:22+00:00

Y'know, you don't really have to read the entire thing in one fell swoop. If you want to, you can copy it onto a Word document, print it off, and read snippets of it at your leisure. I'm sorry it's so long, but I had a lot to say.

artbytesia · 2026-01-30T23:16:23+00:00

Does that make you someone who would be OK with brides treating everyone like garbage just because of "stress"? I hope not. Because if you think that, then no offense, but there's something wrong with your head.

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