Talk:The Mysterious Mare Do Well/@comment-208.107.164.43-20111206231600

Okay. So apparently half the fandom believes that Rainbow's friends decided to dress up as Mare Do Well because they were personally annoyed by Rainbow's boasting, that humiliating her was part of the plan, that they foresaw her breakdown all along, and that they were trying to get her to never brag ever.

The other half believes they saw Rainbow's attitude as a problem for herself as well as those around her and so acted out of concern, that the only actual plan was to demonstrate how a more modest hero should act, that they had no idea just how bad they were making Rainbow feel, and that they were just trying to get her to tone her boasting down to "I'm the best" instead of "I'm the best, so no-one else needs to bother trying. Admire me!"

It's really the writer's job to make sure that kind of ambiguity can't exist. If the way we should be interpreting everyone's motivations were made clearer, I bet way fewer people would hate this episode.