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>I was taking an conservative route since I was talking about Celestia as a master plan manipulator and not just a troll with a funny streak.
that's a stretch that hobbled the theory even though you had an unexpected argument in your favor that the comic could have been given to Spike at anytime by her.

>Season 4 has this the most undisputedly implied in my opinion. It gave a subtext that she brought Discord back to fight Terik and said she had prophetic dreams.
eeeyup, Twilight´s Kingdom. Many people tend to write her as a tyrant because of Luna ending up as a victim in the premiere (including myself, I am not an exception) but that´s the bait argument used for many who would denigrate the Sun princess. However, when one puts all her actions onto the table, season 4´s finale takes the cake in tyrannical decisions though I think that she didn´t get nowhere close to this after that finale (I think)

>Season 3 had hints
in the Crystal Empire episode indeed.

>I've seen some argue that some lines in Season 7 undermine this (which I wasn't sure I agreed with but would need to rewatch as I consider myself weakest on Season 7 and Season 5).
we might not know all that well about that but if you played with her as tyrant considering the recent seasons, you would have revealed yourself or even get misunderstood as a fan that only watched the first seasons.

>So I wanted to play it "safe" there.
the less one enters into muddled waters, the better.