Talk:Rainbow Dash/@comment-82.132.217.223-20120415201853/@comment-2170890-20120416143312

@:Zony514: In my opinion if they had used Dash in Putting Your Hoof Down, then the entire episode would have been completly irrelevant. With the possible exception of Dragonshy which may have been written before the character's histories had been decided on (although someone wrote up a way of looking at Dash's behavior in that episode a little differently, but it's not an official explaination) Dash has always been pretty good at supporting Fluttershy when it comes down to it, especially with her assertiveness. As inpatient as she may be at times, I find the friendship between the two seems to really shine through in these scenes, in most episodes even when Dashie was at her worst, she never seemed to be too hard on Fluttershy, and it's obvious to me, she's just trying to help her out.

The only plausable way I could see Dash appearing in Putting Your Hoof Down, would be for her to be in the audience at Iron Will's show for some reason, and to help convince Fluttershy to take part, or for her to appear earlier, and suggest she watches the show with lines like "Come on you should watch this show, you need to be more assertive!" and then not be used again in the show at all, unless it's to admit that Fluttershy's being the "wrong" kind of assertive. | edit