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Long ago, back during Season 3, I dreamed of a trailer for an episode featuring Diamond and Silver getting into a fight and declaring their friendship officially over. It featured a beautifully composed shot of the two of them shoving their noses in each other’s faces before doing a full 180, giving the camera a close-up view of their cutie marks, similar to the shot captured by their ‘sugar lump rump’ ritual. Then they march off in separate directions, leaving a zoomed-out view of the CMC watching the events with wide-eyed faces. Then there’s a cut to a no-doubt edited scene of Scootaloo saying, “Hey, what’s the worst that can happen?” The trailer then proceeds to show Diamond and Silver attempting to make the other jealous by befriending other ponies around the school, eventually culminating with Diamond befriending Apple Bloom and Silver snatching up Sweetie. The trailer ends with the punch line of Scootaloo angrily shouting, “What, I’m not good enough for ya!?”
It was only a dreamed-up fantasy, yet it managed to surpass any of the Diamond episodes we ended up getting from the show. For one, it placed Diamond and Silver on equal footing, showcasing them as equally disgruntled about whatever was bothering them (and presumably equally to blame). The conflict of the episode didn’t place Diamond and Silver as simple antagonist-o-trons whom the Crusaders needed to best so the episode could end (again, presumably). I take it the nature of their argument could have provided deeper insight into each of the characters to give us some actual distinguishing character traits between the two, and it could have been a golden opportunity for us to learn the true nature of Diamond and Silver’s relationship. If the writers really wanted to make things interesting, they could have had the CMC be indirectly responsible for the break-up, thus making them feel like they needed to be the ones to fix it.
The main point I’m getting at is that Diamond and Silver having a genuine clash that threatened their friendship is something we never truly got to see from the show. We did get a slapdash one-sided breakup involving Silver chewing out Diamond for ten seconds, but that was merely a plot device to place Diamond at her lowest point for the sake of the story. So how about it? How about a few Diamond and Silver-themed firecrackers? Because it looks like Illy isn’t the only one in the running for Dazzle’s leash…
