@Alel
 
Many people like to point out that she put many lives at the list due to her bragging. With the hot air balloon I can understand, if RD stopped signing autographs she could have saved the mare before MDW popped up.
 
But with the rest? Even if she had been super-modest and humble, nothing would’ve been different at all! For example:
 
Runaway carriage - Nothing more RD could have done with this one than she did. RD did not have the strength to even slow it down at all. She even hurt herself trying to stop it. AJ would’ve had to step in anyway.
 
The construction site- Nothing more RD could have done with this one than she did. She barely saved one of workers and only got out unhurt due to his help. Again, Pinkie would’ve had to step in.
 
The dam- If the theme is so fragile that simply leaning against it too hard caused it to give away, it was definitely gonna collapse anyway.
 
Being modest before then wouldn’t have altered a thing. We never see Rainbow’s over-confidence directly leading her to making a mistake. The times she wasn’t able to save ponies in the second half of the episode (the construction workers, the runaway carriage, the dam) wasn’t because she was overconfident. The way they set those up, she couldn’t have handled those on her own regardless of whether she went in humble or bragging. So that doesn’t support the lesson they were (allegedly) trying to teach.

@aza191  
@DBZFan12  
And who says I want to “do anyone any favors” anyway? I want to defend this episode because I have my reason to think it’s right. Like it or not.

@Alel  

 
And you defending it doesn’t do anyone any favors, either.

@aza191  
Haters don’t do anyone any favors by spreading lies and misconceptions.

@Alel  

 
Because it is. It’s broken as all Hell. You are not doing anyone any favors by defending this episode.

@DBZFan12  
You are changing the subject.  
Rainbow Dash failed to save ponies several times because she cared more about the atention. The others saved ponies because Dash wasn’t going to (especially Applejack and Pinkie Pie, who risked their lives). Dash fans conveniently ignore this fact.

I honestly hated that episode. Until they bring it up again in the series, which I hope they won’t, that episode is non-cannon in my eyes.

@Alel  
Never once did she put anypony in danger. I’ve watched the episode 10 times, despite not wanting to, just to see how many times she put somepony in danger. The final total was 0

@aza191  
“Are you ok, Aza191, or do you need a lobotomy?”  
Arin Hanson, Game Grumps, 2013

@Mayojar77  
She waited until the very last second to save a very much frightened pony because she was too busy signing autographs, screw her.

@Alel  
Actually, she didn’t actually need any help until after Mare Do Well turned up.

@Background Pony #B922  
“Oh, I’m going to throw up Skittles…”  
Leigh Daniel Avidan, Game Grumps, 2013

@SRD639  
They did let her, but she ended up needing help wether she liked it or not; it’s not like it was worth risking innocents. The episode wasn’t a “fuck you”, it was a character study.

@Alel  
I doubt there was any real moral to that episode. I saw it as no more than just a big “fuck you” to Rainbow Dash. So she wants to be a hero, so what? If that’s what she wanted to be then let her.

If Rainbow Dash fans are to be taken seriously, the moral should have been “It’s okay to let ponies die as long as Rainbow Dash keeps getting the spotlight”, as if Rainbow Dash was the only one to ever save Ponyville.
 
That would have been a pretty shitty moral, unlike the actual episode.

@GargantuanBass  
“Come on episode designers, get it together!”  
Arin Hanson, Game Grumps, 2013

@Alel  
It had a moral. They just didn’t have time to write an ending to address the real ending.

>October of 2013  
>Still pretending the moral of this episode is a bad one.
 
@Evowizard25  
Chances are he isn’t talking about the real Merriwether Williams, just an imaginary version he made up based on his butthurt towards this episode.

@GargantuanBass  
Odd how she wrote the ‘chocolate’ episode of Spongebob, one of my fav episodes ever.

@Background Pony  
It was written by Merriwether!
 
^bitch

@aza191  
“This moral is a bunch of diarrhea dick farts being smothered all over a fat girls titties!”  
-Arin Hanson, Game Grumps, 2013

Please, anything could be better than Mysterious Mare Do Well.  
The crap I took a few hours ago was better!

What great moral is that?

@Background Pony  
“I took a shit today, and I shat out a better moral than thiiis episode!”

I read this in one of those fake-ass AVGN voices.