Talk:One Bad Apple/@comment-216.66.171.122-20121205042202

This is actually the first episode of MLP: FiM that I've actively disliked. The way that it handled the issue of bullying made me incredibly uncomfortable based on my own experiences of being bullied.

Babs being the victim of bullying herself should not give her a free pass for her own behaviour. She was absolutely horrible to the CMC and she shouldn't have been treated as any less responsible for her actions just because she was a victim too. And based on how guilty the CMC felt when they found our their own assailant had been bullied as well, it seems to imply that you should feel bad for standing up for yourself? Yeah, that's a GREAT message to send kids.

That, and some of the little inconsistencies with the show's canon bothered me. Diamond Tiara already ate some pretty serious Humble Pie in season 2 when it was revealed that the Apple Family was the only reason her family was wealthy, and the Gabby Gums episode showed that she and the CMC could have a productive (albeit high-pressure) professional relationship, so having her revert to being a textbook jerk seemed out of place.