Thread:Balthus Dire/@comment-24945605-20140712043935/@comment-27818776-20140714030620

There was also the fact that I interpreted Shen letting the Soothsayer go as a Pragmatic Villainy move. What I mean is that it's kind of like when Tirek from FiM honored his part of the bargain and gave Twilight his friends back. Since Tirek was so close to taking over Equestria, who's to say that he thought that maybe he wouldn't lose anything from giving Twilight her friends back, because, as far as he was concerned, he had already won.