Unpopular opinion time

@Brass Beau  
Well it’s not like the humans of Earth are any better, are we?

@Latecomer  
They occasionally are.

@Brass Beau
 
androgynistic?

@WyrmSpawN  
And ponies likely are more often.
 
 
@Mildgyth  
I think Brass means misandrist. (Although andros means man, so… mishippist? I dunno.)

@Latecomer
 
mishippist would be their equivalent of misanthrope, though.

@Mildgyth  
Greco-Latin remixing is harder than it looks.

@Brass Beau  
Not that different from Earth honestly

This my first time on a forum and my unpopular opinion is snips and snails are over hated by the fandom, I don’t think there the best characters ever but I feel people made them out worse than they were.

@Sadrai  
I always liked them.

I never had a problem with them as characters. but i’ve always that Snails’ voice was completely unsuited for his age.

@Sadrai
 
They suffered by having Boast Busters kind of mishandle them from a narrative perspective (no, they didn’t need mustaches at the end of that episode), and the consequences therein. I think they were better handled after that episode, especially as far as S6 and S9 went.
 
…Trixie also has people ignore that while she didn’t exactly ask anyone to bring an Ursa Major (Minor, but still), she still provoked the supposed “hecklers” in her debut, starting with her calling Applejack a “hayseed,” and ending with her provoking Rarity by insulting her mane, meaning she really removed that aspect of moral high ground some claim her to possess, if you think about it, and she was still self-aggrandizing by the end… and you’ll notice that even if it was 100% sincere (up for debate), she never did apologize in the slightest in Magic Duel for being a jerk to Twilight’s friends in Boast Busters.
 

 

 
Even the one who wasn’t directly provoked via insult, Rainbow Dash, only did it after she humiliated Applejack… and Trixie made sure to call her a “loser” to rub salt in the wound.

@Dex Stewart  
Me to there not my favorite characters but I like them
 
 
@Mildgyth  
I can understand that he does sound a little older than he is suppose to be
 
 
@AC97  
Yeah true boast busters is kind of what started the hate an it was the first appearance of them plus I agree the should have had a more proper punishment, I also agree that they were better handled in other episodes especially the buckball episodes which is what I assume u mean when you mention season 6 and 9

@Latecomer
 
@Myoozik  
True but we don’t have pastel colored talking ponies.
 
 
@Mildgyth
 
@Latecomer  
Whatever the male equivalent of misogyny is called. It was 4AM when I tried to remember the word.
 
@Sadrai  
Adolescent boys can be hard to write for an adolescent girls shows. They got better but their early characterization wasn’t very flattering.
 
@AC97  
The lesson was supposed to be about bragging but a better lesson with that premise would have been to know when to walk away. Trixie is a show pony so some boasting is a little expected. Had AJ and the others walked away and Trixie still challenged them then I think the message would have been a little clearer.

@Brass Beau  
True they did definitely get better when they gave snails a calm zen master personality and snips a greedy business personality.

@Dex Stewart
 
Same.

@Brass Beau  

 
Misandry. I think it comes from “Adam”.

@Sadrai  
They got better later on, especially Snails.
 
@Brass Beau  
In the future, that’ll probably become a reality

 
I was always biased in favor of Snips because I was a fan of Lee Tockar for his portrayal of Ripster in Street Sharks.

@Brass Beau
 
Yeah, all-in-all, they could’ve made the message they wanted to convey clearer. It was one of the less gracefully executed episodes in S1.
 
They could’ve, for example, had Trixie lying off-stage to more than just two foolish kids, or have her (justifiably) not even try to beat the Ursa Minor, and still persist in the boasting afterwards, in addition to what you said, about her alternatively provoking Applejack after she tried to walk away with her friends… or they could’ve had something less extreme than the Ursa Minor happen to begin with.
 
 
@Sadrai
 
Good thing about that was, it didn’t really contradict either of them as characters. Snails seemed more inherently airheaded, and so being able to perform well under pressure because he doesn’t think about it works (and he was one of the few kids who used basic magic in S1, so him being surprisingly good at telekinesis isn’t too surprising), Snips seemed like he was maybe more gullible than inherently stupid (it was his idea in S1), and they made it clear the latter had learned from blindly believing boasts in S9.
 

 
(On the subject of Scootaloo’s parents, hmm… on one hand, Scoota-orphan is overused and badly done to crap, and same especially for Scootabuse, but I’m not sure what to think really about their parents, other than trying to uproot her life out of nowhere is… not the best parenting, probably)

@AC97  
Exactly man another unpopular opinion I have is I don’t think Snips is dumb he was just a gullible colt plus he seems to be always coming up with ideas like using Snails fame and the cheerleaders to sell merchandise which honestly is smart. Also I think another thing that helped was they never did anything as bad as the boaster boaster incident ever again and probably will not because like you said he doesn’t trust everything people tell him after he questioned what scootaloo parents do for a living.

@AC97  
Uprooting is fairly common so it’s not surprising. And considering the work they do I can see why they have Scootaloo cared for by her dad’s sister. It is unusual for Scootaloo not to live in her aunt’s house, though. I’m curious how they decided on the arrangement that they did.

The main problem with Snips and Snails is that they’re very sterotypical “idiot boys”. It’s mitigated in their debut by putting them against their more competent peer Spike, though.

Spike At Your Service would have been funnier if the comedy wasn’t about Spike failing to be helpful, but Spike being so helpful Applejack doesn’t want to give him up.

@Wiimeiser
 
Completely wrong etymological origin - Adam is of Semitic origin, and ‘misandry’ is derived from Greek and ultimately Proto-Indo-European.
 
mis - hatred  
andros - man

Speaking of Scootaloo: I’m not sure if this is necessarily unpopular, but I haven’t heard anyone else express this idea, sooo…
 
Scootaloo is a case study in how NOT to handle a disabled character.
 
First we get “Flight to the Finish” - at this point it’s utterly undetermined whether there’s anything wrong with her wings, or whether she’s just having trouble learning to use them correctly. Do we see any reference to anyone offering her proper help in that department? Nope.
 
Seasons pass, and it looks like something most likely is wrong with her wings, culminating in “The Washouts” - she is so desperate for at least some of what her condition has denied her that she joins a stunt team with a devil-may-care attitude towards safety. Do we ever see anyone trying to meaningfully help her cope with her condition (let alone any reference to her having gone to a doctor to see if it might be treatable)? Nope.
 
Then we get “Growing Up is Hard to Do”, with Scootaloo’s adult body still having child-size wings (technically up for interpretation on account of Bulk Biceps, but it’s obvious what they were going for there). Does she react to the prospect of being grounded for life as one would expect? Nope. She appears not to notice at all. (kind of understandable as it wouldn’t serve the plot, but come on - you do NOT drop a bombshell of that magnitude and treat it as an inconsequential detail).
 
Meanwhile, it is well established in canon that Equestria is no stranger to aeronautical engineering. “Call of the Cutie” had Apple Bloom try out some old-fashioned glider, “The Cutie Pox” has Apple Bloom with a hang glider cutie mark among all the others, and issue 81 of the comic has Scootaloo learn of an earth pony who built a glider backpack and got into the Wonderbolts. Does anyone even briefly mention that such technology might be useful to Scootaloo (just as many people in real life use various technology to compensate for various disabilities)? Nope.
 
Taken in context, what we actually get to see feels more than anything like more fuel for the Scootabuse dumpster fire. Sure, some of that stuff might have happened off-camera. But considering that the show has had much more in-depth exploration of characters’ feelings than you normally get in a Y-rated cartoon, they dropped the ball big time.
 
My tentative headcanon - rather, the only thing I can think of that makes everything make sense in a non-Scootabuse context - is that she’s receiving physical therapy or something in hopes of one day flying, and she’s under doctor’s orders not to use a glider because she might develop bad habits which would impede her progress towards flying without one.
 
Hopefully now that the comic is no longer tied to the show’s continuity, they can give this matter the treatment it deserves. Though considering that issue 81 came out a few months before the final episode aired, maybe it was meant as a taste of things to come…