Talk:The Mysterious Mare Do Well/@comment-71.32.207.124-20120114064455

I think that this episode is about focus more than anything else. Rainbow Dash starts being the town 'hero' for the right reasons, it was more for the benefit of the victim than it was for her own benefit. This is what brought the praise. Rainbow Dash, though, is the type of person that loves praise. Arguably, that's really Rainbow Dash really wants, praise. So she begins to focus more on what she wants than what is more important (at least in my view) the victim. Her friends see this and decide to call her on that. Who's more important? Rainbow Dash, or the victim? This is where people seem to fall into the same trap as Rainbow Dash. This is the same sort of mentality that occurs with people who do these things for a living. They can get so focused on building their careers that they start to lose sight on what is important, the people who actually have to deal with the real consequences of these things (death, property damage, serious injury, etc). The only thing that I think needs to really be cleared up is why her friends decided to do it. If they were just doing it to take Rainbow Dash down a peg or two, then they are falling into that same mentality that I talked about earlier, focusing more on ego than on the victim. If they were doing it to save lives, then I think there is no real criticism that you can really put against their heroics. Sadly, though I think that the first reason was likely the reason. Still though, I think too many people are focusing on Rainbow Dash, and not enough on what is really important, but I guess it can be at least partially contributed to human psychology as it apparently happens a lot.