Talk:Scare Master/@comment-4899875-20150928232445/@comment-4899875-20150929165928

Fluttershy is timid; she isn't stupid. This episode exaggerates her fear to the point of making her an annoying idiot. I know it's Fluttershy, but that's too much, even for her. Do you think that the writers can just increase her shyness infinitely and have it always make sense because it's based on a trait that was technically always there and never hurt the character or get annoying? Do you have a limit? What would the writers have to do and have it be based on her shyness for even you to say "this is too much"? The only time it's ever gotten anywhere near this ridiculous is that 1 moment where she was scared of her own shadow as a joke. This episode takes that 1 joke moment, exaggerates it even more, and builds an entire episode around it and takes it completely seriously.

What made this show great was that the characters acted like intelligent, 3-dimensional, real people. I don't care if it's her first Nightmare Night. She's an adult, and she's been alive long enough to know how things work. I knew from my very first Halloween that it was all costumes and decorations, and it's all obviously made of paper and plastic. Again, all the characters on this show are smart enough to know it's just costumes. This isn't a matter of inexperience; it's a matter of intelligence.

And by the way, her shyness revolves around social situations. She's shy, not paranoid. She hates talking to strangers and being the center of attention. She doesn't imagine that everything is going to kill her. Being afraid of people and imagining all these crazy scenarios that'll never happen or thinking that obviously fake Halloween costumes are real that you even knew weren't real beforehand are not the same thing. Yeah, she's scared of dragons, but a dragon is a dangerous animal, so that actually makes sense. There's a difference between being shy and being insane. It was a fundamental misunderstanding of the character.