@Dirty Bit  
Hey, someone had to make that joke

@Prometheushunter2
 
The only time they didn’t support their daughter

“M-my daughter is a LesbiIiAaAaN!!starts sobbing

Such an adorable mom <3

@Marima  
We can both agree on that, at the very least. :p

@rdibp  
Yeah, better than Fluttershy Leans In.

@rdibp  
Rainbow learned her lesson entirely because Scootaloo, someone who had always looked up to her, became disappointed in her. That’s good stuff. The parents stuff still sours the ending of that episode a little for me, however.

@Marima  
The positives in this episode heavily outweigh the negatives, those are my final words on this.
 
I think this will be my last comment on here. We’ll just keep going in circles at this rate.

@rdibp  
I dunno, I thought that line was a bit fan-servicey. Kinda came outta left field in my opinion. There’s nothing that really came before this that suggested that Scootaloo had a massive issues with self-confidence, she was rather boisterous despite her dispositions. It was a sweet moment, but kinda overlooks past seasons in my opinion.  
Not that I care about continuity or anything, ehe.  
This wasn’t an issue explored in this episode, but something that’s been plaguing the US nowadays is overly supportive parents, the types that’ll tell you can be literally anything and take pictures of your poop and hang it on a wall as a grand achievement. This produces people who are over confident in their abilities and over value their time to the point where they lack productivity. Instead of developing their skills like they should have, all they did was take photographs of their loads and share it online. When they realize what they were told was kinda BS, they become rebellious drifters who think the world owes them something instead of becoming productive members of society. In that manner too much support can be just as detrimental as too little support.

@Marima  

 
This right here is why I love this episode so much. I agree with you to a certain extent, but what it does focus on with Dash and Scootaloo completely blows everything else out of the water.

@Background Pony Number 17  
Eh… No. They were depicted as normal people early on, it’s not like Rarity was always generous and Fluttershy had her not-so-kind moments. They all had their thing, but they weren’t one note characters.  
@rdibp  
They were in the wrong though, perhaps not as much as Dash, but they still need to give their kid some space or tone it down a few notches. It’s good to show your kids support, not knocking that, but it has to be done in a manner that isn’t utterly demeaning.  
I think you’re giving this episode too much credit, some of my favorite episodes had a lot more gray areas where every pony learned something, they had an opportunity to do that in this episode and failed to do so. The hardest thing to teach kids in my experience is that right and wrong are more ambiguous than they might think and I’d really appreciate it if kid shows reflected this aspect of reality more often.

You know it would be so much simpler for everyone to come to some sort of a consensus and when it comes to RD and her parents–it’s not entirely on RD, and it’s not entirely on the ’rents either. As some proverb has said “The truth is always somewhere in the middle” and the parties have their somewhat biase opinions.
 
Makes it works well to me when Scoots came with that bit of soliloquy after RD told her about her bouts with her parents as a filly, with her experiences coming from one that maybe in a bit of forgotten relationship (either orphaned or neglectful parents; either is pretty stark regardless).

@Thrond  
They really weren’t though. The whole beginning showed us just how big of fans they were of their daughter, probably even more than Scootaloo, so of course they were ecstatic when they found out that Dash was a Wonderbolt. The main problem and conflict of the episode resided with Dash, not the parents.
 
If that bugs you, that’s completely fine and I respect that. For me, this beats Tanks for the Memories as my favorite Rainbow episode.

@rdibp  
But… Rainbow’s parents aren’t depicted as wrong. That’s the source of my frustration.

@Background Pony #7EB7  
Lol, nice arguement, kid. You sure showed us.

@Marima  

 
Except it’s been shown since the very first episode that the characters HAVE personality disorders; that’s the main appeal of the show.

@Mr. Horrible  
Guess it just doesn’t affect me as much. I still see this being a fantastic Dash episode.

@rdibp  
That’s what it should have been, except the writing in the episode painted Rainbow’s parents as being 100% in the right regardless of how socially unacceptable their behavior was, and that Rainbow Dash was portrayed as being 100% wrong and ungrateful for her parents’ support. No effort was made to show things from Dash’s perspective or to show that her parents actually cared about how she felt, they just made her feel guilty until she apologized, which is why the resolution feels so gross to me.

@toonbat  
I find that avatar complements most of my… stronger opinions regarding the show nicely. :P

@Thrond  
It’s another one of those “no one is right, no one is wrong” kind of situations. Everypony had their own reasons for acting the way they did, and that’s why i find this episode so brilliant.

@Brony_Conundrum  
The combination of your sassy Fluttershy avatar and your talk of deeply cutting your parents as the best available option is just delightful.

@Thrond  
There’s no “wrong way” to express your anger and frustration towards two ponies acting like her parents did, after they’d gone as far as to set off fireworks during a bloody air show. In fact, I say that the deeper she cut them, the better.

@rdibp  
Yeah but I don’t think Dash was at all wrong. She just expressed herself in the wrong way. I’d be pretty annoyed if my parents acted like that too.

@Marima  
@Mr. Horrible  
I’m actually really glad that they didn’t change the parents all too much in the end. Dash coming to terms to appreciate her parent’s cheering and overall enthusiasm rather than finding it embarrassing is a much better resolution.
 
I agree that they could’ve done way better with the locker room scene, but I still enjoyed every moment in this episode.