Talk:Putting Your Hoof Down/@comment-96.233.201.187-20120306033145/@comment-68.46.218.162-20120306050942

Its not just exaggeration from the last episode, but from most of the series. The general public of Ponyville are harmonious and friendly. They have a rustic small town atmosphere where most ponies know each other, and ponies that work as vendors would be met on a regular basis by most to all citizens of a small rustic town like that. And in real life, when people are in those settings, they don't try and be assholes when they need all the business they can get. Rariety and Applejack frequently press the issue about customer satisfaction, and I won't say its just because they believe that's how a business should operate, but because a business in that setting would not survive without that trait.

Also characterization in general was poor. Pinkie Pie and Rariety had several instances that they went off character, and I don't find Fluttershy's descent into an aggressive bully to be believable. In general too much of the atmosphere around Fluttershy shifted specifically to encourage her to become aggressive and mean. It wasn't natural