Talk:Power Ponies/@comment-5393584-20131220122052/@comment-2170890-20131220184158

I loved MMDW. The only bad thing about it in my mind was that they jumped straight to the lesson, and didn't include a scene where the others attempt to talk to Rainbow Dash, thus they kind of come of bad in away (there's a fanart where Spike suggests talking to her, but is ignored). I get that Dashie wouldn't have listened, but it doesn't take that much to include a scene where they try talking to her, and get shot down.

I don't get why it's so hated, I thought it was a very down to earth and realistic episode. I know that Dashie was at her worst, but if you look at episodes like Soinc Rainboom she's the kind of pony who feeds on praise due to some kind of insecurity thing (you can call it arrogance, but a lot of the time, that is what arrogance is, insecurity) so she feeds on praise much like Rarity feeds on being adored by others, they have flaws - this episode fed Dashie's flaws, so she acted worse. I actually related to her a lot in that episode, I think she was my second favorite G4 pony at the time arleady, but I liked her more after seeing that episode.

And hey, until season 3 at least (which admitdly tiried to repair it) she got less arrogant as season 2 went on, and it began here.

The only other thing that I didn't like too much about Mysterious Mare Do Well was the title, or more specifically the name of the supposed superhero; let's be fair on Merriweather and assume she knew that "Ne'er Do Well is what the bad guys are called, and that she was just being ironic, it just didn't work for me.  In my mind "Mysterious Mare Do Well" should at best be a title for the superhero, not the actual superhero name - like when Superman gets called things like "The Man of Steel" or "The Man of Tomorrow" sometimes, but the propper superhero name is "Superman".