@ClownDicks  
 
But one thing’s for sure: those writers better make RD do a Sonic Rainboom in S5!(She hasn’t done one since A Canterlot Wedding Part 2, and it’s basically what earned her cutie mark to begin with!)

@Mr. Horrible  
When nothing makes sense at all, I tend to call it bad.

110% true

If it was just a matter of Rarity misinterpreting Dash’s mark, then why did getting the weather right give Dash her mark back?

@PonyPon  
The thing with the weather came about because they needed to have something that’s typically only associated with Rainbow Dash but that Rarity could still conceivably do, and subsequently screw up in a major way. And since you can’t cause much of a catastrophe by losing a race…
 
I admit it’s not the most graceful metaphor in the episode, but honestly it’s nowhere near as bad as everyone likes to pretend that it is.

Rarity interpreted the new cutiemark in a way that made sense to her. Obviously she couldn’t go into stunt flying.

@Mr. Horrible  
I have a hard time believing that.
 
I know that’s what they showed us, but I have a hard time buying it.
 
Besides, I thought the weather was bad because Rarity sucked at it. Not so much leaving a hole as it was…screwing things up.

And of course it double posts when I decide to do a wall of text. Thanks web site.

@PonyPon  
For example: When Pinkie Pie was running Sweet Apple Acres into the ground, it wasn’t because she didn’t have the talent, or was suddenly too dumb to do simple farm work. It was because running Sweet Apple Acres is Applejack’s job, and Applejack was gone, so things were not right with the world. The ponies weren’t representative of themselves with mixed up talents, or even of the ponies they were ‘replacing.’ They were representative of the holes they were leaving behind. Pinkie Pie is gone, so there are no laughter or smiles in Ponyville. Rainbow Dash is gone, so the world is cold and dreary and dark. And so on.

@PonyPon  
For example: When Pinkie Pie was running Sweet Apple Acres into the ground, it wasn’t because she didn’t have the talent, or was suddenly too dumb to do simple farm work. It was because running Sweet Apple Acres is Applejack’s job, and Applejack was gone, so things were not right with the world. The ponies weren’t representative of themselves with mixed up talents, or even of the ponies they were ‘replacing.’ They were representative of the holes they were leaving behind. Pinkie Pie is gone, so there are no laughter or smiles in Ponyville. Rainbow Dash is gone, so the world is cold and dreary and dark. And so on.

@Mr. Horrible  
…….I don’t follow.

@Mr. Horrible  
That doesn’t excuse getting it wrong. Especially since Larson wrote Cutie Mark Chronicles.
 
That second one is why, upon further reflection I think MMC’s quality was the result of Larson not caring, not him being a hack without Renzetti reining him in like I once feared.

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Be quite human Snails. And stop stealing Lyra’s talent.

@Mr. Horrible  
Hmmm… I like that interpretation.

They point wasn’t “Rainbow Dash’s cutie mark means weather control.” The point was “Look how awful things would be if Rainbow Dash wasn’t around.”
 
The whole premise of that episode was to illustrate how sad and terrible Twilight’s life would be without her friends. It wasn’t about literally reassigning special talents, it was about symbolizing a world where the rest of the Mane 6 weren’t there and somebody else was in their place.