Talk:Boast Busters/@comment-10390252-20141002144437

I really think that Trixie was badly treated in this episode. Yes, she was loud-mouthed but anyone who has been to a live show like hers knows that the performer needs to have quick wits to put down hecklers and the peanut gallery. Yeah, she humiliated a few of the Six but they very much started it.

When you think about it, she suffered the most of anypony that night due to Snips and Snails nearly-educationally subnormal credulity. She lost her cart with probably every single thing she owned. How did the ponies react to those two little idiots? They laughed it off whilst poor Trixie was left to wander away, destitute!

If I was Twilight, I would have gone to Trixie and insisted that she stay at the library until the cart was rebuilt (and I'd ensure that Snips and Snails and possibly Spike - because he provoked the sequence of events at the show that seem to have triggered everything - helped cover the cost by stacking shelves or something). I would have also made it very plain to all the other ponies in Ponyville that Trixie wasn't to blame and that I would be complaining to the mayor if I heard of any slander being put about regarding her role in the night's avents.

The entire scenario in Magic Duel could have been avoided if Twilight had offered a hoof in friendship instead of passively conniving in the ruination of a mostly-blameless pony.