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The fact Gilda was saving up money to try and leave Griffonstone forever paints a different picture as she might have been trying to move in with Dash, but the constant pranking against her and her still-griffonstone-mindset, with the final nail being Dash’s “treachery” sent her back.
Oh, I love your profile picture.
Parts Unknown can include Equestria; I mean that we never see her again outside of cameos with Griffon-teams n’ such.
Though apparently she makes an appearance in one of the chapter books. Actually, more like “having a role in the story”.
And they had plenty of time to give their friendship some details during sections involving the two racing through the clouds. Instead, they just established her as “a grump, and a thief, and a bully.”
It’s a 20-minute episode, they don’t have much time to give their friendship a detailed background. They shown to enjoy each other’s company and Gilda care about her enough to sing their cheesy school anthem.
“Traveled from parts unknown”? We have no reason to assume she’s not living in Equestria. For all we know she was passing by and decided to see her friend from school.
Gilda failed to have any qualities that seemed to showcase how she was, in any way, a friend of Rainbow Dash. “They had a past”, hardly qualifies when, by the end of the episode, Rainbow Dash ditches “she who [Dash] believed was ONCE [Dash’s] friend” (this is AFTER a massive amount of embarrassment being sustained by Gilda) due to no longer seeing positive traits in Gilda that would warrant Rainbow Dash keeping her as a friend.
The fallacy in this, is how their past was apparently important enough to GILDA that she traveled from parts unknown just to see Rainbow Dash, yet apparently their friendship was utterly irredeemable based on who Gilda “turned out to be”.
She was referring to someone who doesn’t deserve to be friends.
Yes, but Twilight considered her a false friend in the moral…
But she’s not a fake friend. She’s a bad friend.
No, it’s a poorly written episode because it fails in the purpose of making Gilda a fake friend for the moral of the episode and Dash a good friend and element of loyalty.
So, it’s a poorly written episode because its antagonist have redeeming qualities…
Ah. Gotcha.
Lauren Faust has said that she generally doesn’t watch the episodes made without her involvement, because she already has in her mind where she planned for the series to go after season 2 and wants to hold on to that vision. Given her repeated statements that what’s currently happening in the show supersedes whatever statements she makes about her concepts and backstories for the characters and their environment, though, I don’t think she’s asking us to ignore the later seasons in favor of speculation about what she would have done.
Say what now?
The episode can have several interpretations depending on how one generally interprets friendship. Really, Gilda being “ditched” by the end, could’ve ended very differently if Gilda felt that the friendship was worth changing herself, in order to preserve it. This is just one interpretation, though. Rainbow could’ve also thrown out an olive branch by giving Gilda an option, rather than put Gilda on the spot in front of a group of ponies who were already against Gilda at that point.
Like I said; many interpretations for that scene. I can only hope Gilda makes a return later, as, despite Faust preferring to acknowledge only the first two seasons, that was ONE episode that’s worth an update, for the sake of the themes of the show.
Gilda was a jerk, can’t deny that. But Dash is supposed to be better than this. Guess I’m biased though as I see a lot of what happened to me in this episode, with me being Gilda. I then wrote out a recap of that event but it was WAY too many words so I deleted it. Also I depressed the hell outta myself doing that.
Even if I can’t have one, I wish Gilda could have a happy ending. She needs a new episode.
Gilda is clearly not blameless, but I’m saying her reactions are understandable.
If you mean that your statement that “clearly Gilda is at fault” was sincere, I’m sorry for misreading it as sarcasm; I was thrown off by the fact that most of the rest of your comment was explaining how it was Pinkie’s fault for driving Gilda to perform her dastardly deeds.
cough Someone didn’t read the whole thing.
I watch it for the plot.
Ten seconds. Oy. She’s already at Rainbow Dash’s house when Pinkie arrives there, so we don’t know how long they’d been together that morning or even if she had arrived the previous night. Add to that we don’t know how long between when Pinkie first meets Gilda and when she catches up to them “later”, and we don’t know how long between when Gilda wrecks Pinkie’s copter and when she comes to Pinkie’s party (though she spends part of that time on her own in Ponyville, scaring senior citizens and shoplifting). The fact that you say all that adds up to “ten seconds”, though, makes me suspect you’ve made up your mind to absolve Gilda of any blame.
@MadBrony
Apparently so were at least half the episodes in the first season. Makes me wonder how a fanbase ever sprouted around such a poorly-written show.