I DON’T LIKE THINGS THAT ARE DIFFERENT

Only complaints on here that feel valid are the ones about a lack of new characters and a lack of letters to Celestia. The rest is the standard “show’s different and I don’t like it”. That said, both of those can be attributed to Season 3’s short length and continuity-heavy nature leaving little room for entire episodes about new characters or various friendship lessons. Season 4 should have plenty of time for both.

Oh, OP. No one cares.
 
People have complained about the characters “being out-of-character” with every new episode and bitching about the show since Season 1.
 
It’s not a good season unless there’s someone constantly whining about something.

@Itsthinking  
Ironically, it is why they feel like rarity needs a second chance to act differently.
 
But I have to admit with further reflexions that the incompetent spike wouldn’t have to it with my idea, it would have look like she want to get rid of him because he can’t do anything right instead of better reasons.

@boz  
I’m just paraphrasing what Meghan McCarthy said. She didn’t want to put Rarity in the episode because it wasn’t the way she wanted to have Rarity. Of course the “RARITY IS A BITCH WHO CHARMED THE FIRE RUBY FROM SPIKE WHY DID YOU MAKE HER LIKE THAT” feedback couldn’t have helped her opinion.

@Itsthinking  
You can’t just use the fandom worst case scenario reaction to help your point, it would have been understand perfectly by ¨nearly¨ everyone as giving rarity another chance is fairly popular and I’m even sure you know it.

@boz  
They could have written it with that intention, yeah. But they didn’t want it to be misinterpreted like a lot of people did with SoME. We’re talking about a group of people that sees Dragon Quest as “feminist propaganda,” here.

@Itsthinking  
We have to admit that they miss their chance on that one to show rarity in a good light by making her refusing spike help out of consideration for him.
 
And the rewritting wouldn’t be long, applejack never used spike for his own profit but tried to get rid of his help the whole episode and so rarity could have do the same with just a few adjustment in the scene where she would have talk about her reason to do that.

@Background Pony  
They didn’t rewrite the entire episode because that would have taken too long. And yes, they do care about the interpretation people would have made. McCarthy mentioned that she felt like she had to change the episode because that’s not where they wanted her character to go.
 
Williams has no idea how to write for most of the characters on MLP, and when she writes for Spike it’s just an absolute mess.

@Itsthinking  
If they were under time constraints than why did they rewrite the entire episode instead of a single character? And do you really think they care about our interpretation of Rarity receiving Spike’s generosity? You’re arguing with hypothetical situations, man.  
But I agree, Williams sucks and shouldn’t write for season 4.

@ClownDicks  
Because i conplain on almost every post that has to do with season 3. In other posts i’m a good chap.

@Takashi.0  
Why is Klonoa so bad?

@Background Pony  
They got a shitty script by the worst writer on the show and were under time constraints. People still would have complained even if Rarity accepted Spike’s help because then people would have seen her as taking advantage of his generosity.
 
Rarity/Spike dialogue is hard to write because people love to interpret her either as taking advantage of someone who she’ll never return love for (absolute BS) or an ungrateful jerk who sees herself as “too good” to get help from someone who feels obligated to give it.
 
 
@Takashi.0  
Klonoa is such a good game, too…

@Itsthinking  
You’re talking like they had no choice in the matter, they could’ve easily rewritten her character instead of changing the entire fucking episode.

I miss when we didn’t argue over every single goddamn thing.
 
I also miss the days before Klanoa started shitting up the board.

Basically, make up your mind. You say RD Rarity and Fluttershy haven’t changed. A character not changing in some way in a show where there’s continuity is a BAD thing. Every member of the cast has changed.
 
The writers didn’t ruin their character. They could have made SAYS a Rarity episode, but they didn’t. Why? Because they didn’t want people to complain that Rarity was being written as ungrateful to the dragon that loves her and that she was “ruined.”

@Itsthinking  
Well that’s something we can finally agree on.

@AdeptusEnginus  
One episode in a 26-episode season versus two episodes in a 26-episode season and one in a 13-episode season?
 
Pinkie was annoying as shit to me before Baby Cakes.

@Itsthinking  
Party of One would like a word with you.

funny thing is that he CAN still do most of these things.

@Itsthinking  
I think he means from a setting perspective, not an in-episode perspective.

Pinkie Pie was nothing but a gag character in S1. She didn’t get any actual character development and the ability to take things seriously until S2.

@Itsthinking
 
S1 barely had Celestia or Luna. Celestia had about maybe 30 minutes total of scenes. But no that doesn’t count. Sacred cow and all.

“when a princess had meaning”
 
What, a character mentioned one fucking time a season and an archetypical cake-loving teacher?
 
Yeah, totally a lot of meaning.

@Itsthinking
 
I think it’s more of a bandwagon trend than personal opinion. You liked this episode? Nonononono we don’t like it and we’ll flame ya for it. At some point they get over it. Sometimes.