Talk:Non-Compete Clause/@comment-26423071-20180512165837

This was a good episode, a vast improvement over the last one. It was funy, and it had a good message...

...but Applejack and Rainbow Dash are MASSIVELY out of character here.

Yes, what I said about Applejack and Dashie being boisterous and competitive is true. However, it's also true that they are very capable of reigning in those tendencies.

Remember "Sleepless in Ponyville"? Dashie took the Crusaders to a field trip there, and she wasn't competitive there.

Or how about when they had to entertain the citizens of the Crystal Empire to keep King sombra from killing everyone? They managed to do just fine, Dashie even went out of her way to not harm Fluttershy during the jousting competition.

Or the first Sisterhooves Social? Applejack put her competitive side aside to help Rarity repair her (Rarity's) bond with Sweetie Belle.

Applejack and Dashie aren't Yaks. They can put aside their aggressive tendencies if it benefits them and/or if there's something bigger at stake.

If Dashie and Applejack were written well, they would have used the field triep as it was intended, to train and educate the Student Six. But if Dashie and Applejack were written well, we wouldn't have an episode.

And that's what bugs me: Dashie and Applejack are badly written just so the plot of the episode can happen.