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Rainbow Dash and Smolder decide to bond over some target-practice since Rainbow needed to take out the trash anyway. Let this be a valuable lesson about loyalty: it’s about what you can do for your friends, not what you do to your friends. One is being a good friend and a good person. The other is being a jerk.
For those needing a quick refresher: the dress on the left is the one Rarity made Rainbow wear in order to let the lecherous creep Zephyr Breeze paw at her in “Sparkle’s Seven.” That’s the Wonderbolt bomber jacket, complete with the demeaning ‘Rainbow Crash’ patch, from “Newbie Dash” in the center. On the right is the titular costume from “The Mysterious Mare Do Well” with the zombie-cookie smear from “28 Pranks Later” added on the muzzle.
Note: While I actually really liked “Sparkle’s Seven” outside of the unfortunate implications with the Zephyr scene, those other episodes are just terrible. They’re examples of being disloyal to a friend, the one who’s the most loyal to them, no less.
For those needing a quick refresher: the dress on the left is the one Rarity made Rainbow wear in order to let the lecherous creep Zephyr Breeze paw at her in “Sparkle’s Seven.” That’s the Wonderbolt bomber jacket, complete with the demeaning ‘Rainbow Crash’ patch, from “Newbie Dash” in the center. On the right is the titular costume from “The Mysterious Mare Do Well” with the zombie-cookie smear from “28 Pranks Later” added on the muzzle.
Note: While I actually really liked “Sparkle’s Seven” outside of the unfortunate implications with the Zephyr scene, those other episodes are just terrible. They’re examples of being disloyal to a friend, the one who’s the most loyal to them, no less.
Except that there is zero acknowledgement at any time by the Wonderbolts that they did anything hurtful, even at the end when Rainbow explains everything. There is zero sign that if Dash had told them earlier, that they would have stopped calling her Crash. There is nothing like that anywhere in the episode, no point where the ‘bolts go ‘Oh, sorry, why didn’t you tell us? We would’ve stopped if we knew it was bothering you.’ That never happened. There is nothing to suggest that they would’ve stopped if she had asked them to earlier. That’s the problem.
It’s treated as a case of “this is just part of being a Wonderbolt, so Rainbow Dash has to accept it if she wants to be a Wonderbolt–like it or not.” That’s what I meant by her basically being told to ‘suck it up.’
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Did Rainbow tell them why that name was hurtful then? No, she didn’t. Which left Spitfire to assume that Dash was upset it wasn’t her real name on the jacket
And Spitfire didn’t tell her to “suck it up” she told her that all wonderbolts had nicknames on their jackets and tried (and failed) to tell her that they were all bad by telling her Soarin’s was Clipper, But Rainbow didn’t know that Clipper meant clipping his wing, so this left Rainbow still thinking they hated her. Which they didn’t, which looks like what you’re trying to say.
Even before that Fleetfoot was sympathetic to Rainbow and tried to encourage her, telling her
“Hey, Crash, I know it was a tough day today, but don’t worry. You’ll get the hang of it.”.
But, again, No one knew that name was hurtful, so Rainbow brushed her off and the problem continued.
They were not trying to bully her. Fleetfoot was the one to give her the name and was quick to show her kindness not long after. Both Rainbow Dash and the wonderbolts needed to understand, and in order to understand, they needed to talk to each other. something both are unfortunately bad at, which is why it took a full episode for them to actually do that.
No, that wasn’t the moral. It should have been, but we saw that when Dash did object to the patch on her outfit the reply was ‘well, we all have a nickname so that makes it okay.’ Even when she told them it was bothering her, the answer was ‘well, its just part of being a Wonderbolt – so suck it up and don’t take it so personally’ a.k.a. the reply of every bully to being told to stop being a jerk.
The episode was literally amoral.
I’m pretty sure it was “don’t make people try to guess what’s upsetting you” because had Rainbow told any of the wonderbolts that name hurt her that episode would have been a lot shorter.
Cheers!
I think the idea was “Okay, this is how 2,4,6 Greeat could’ve actually been good.” Because, yeah, it sucked too.
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I think the idea was “Okay, this is how 2,4,6 Greeat could’ve actually been good.” Because, yeah, it sucked too.
And while I’m fairly certain the Sparkle’s Seven gag was, well, a gag and Rarity fucking with Dash, nah, yeah, I got no way to refute the burninating of that one.