Were the mane 4 actually being hypocritical in Mysterious Mare Do Well?

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I was just on an image that tried to compare Rainbow swarmed by fans in MMDW to her saying she doesn’t want attention in the episode with her parents, which just seemed to ignore that was 5 seasons ago and Rainbow had changed from back then. >>1431386
 
The discussion quickly devolved into walls of text, but it did bring to mind one of the common complaints that Twilight, AJ, and Rarity all plugged their own contributions to the MDW plot, so it made them look hypocritical to scold Rainbow. But I don’t see it that way.
 
Twilight praised her magic, Rarity praised her costume, Fluttershy, element of kindness, praises her putting safety of others first, and Applejack praised her modesty and not boasting over her actions.
 
It seems like all of them talk about the things they themselves would be genuinely in admiration of if MDW had been an actual pony instead of just created by them. It just makes the most sense that they complimented ‘Mare-Do-Well’ on what they themselves did, since it fits with their strongest character traits. I mean, would the fashion-inept Applejack be complimenting the costumes? Would the pegasus Fluttershy be marveling at high-level spell work?
 
Please stay on topic. This isn’t about praising or bashing the episode or the moral. I wanted to end off by saying that if the MDW plot had gone as intended they would have let MDW vanish without ever taking any credit for her, but MDW goes to the MDW parade, and THAT seems hypocritical to the charater they were trying to portray. But let’s just ignore that and focus on the praising MDW scene.
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I’ve always said that them complimenting their own contributions is the major flaw of the episode, and it should be changed to them complimenting each other.
 
I mean, would the fashion-inept Applejack be complimenting the costumes? Would the pegasus Fluttershy be marveling at high-level spell work?
 
Simple solution: They focus on what Mare-Do-Well did rather than how she did it. “She was amazing, fixing the dam like that!” “She was so brave, saving those workers”, etc.
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