If I had a lot more time. I would love to break down how empowered Twilight was in this opener.
I think they wanted to really hard to go for B, to damage control MMC. Twilight is spoken of in high regards by 'other' people, but she herself is never shown as being all that special. In fact they spend a lot of time showing us, her sucking at flying, her panicking, her loosing to the plants and her making a bad choice leaving the group. The episode really really wants to tell us that she's not a Mary Sue, but since she's still the protagonist and her weakness is as contrived as her importance everything falls down for me.