Talk:Fall Weather Friends/@comment-26973802-20150904051632/@comment-31973912-20180827142817

Very, very late reply: I realized on re-watching this episode that, this was the turning point where I started really disliking Rainbow Dash as a character. Up till then she had been rmy least favorite of the main characters, but still a hero of sorts. She was rude, arrogant, boastful, thoughtless, etc.... but here, she flat-out cheated. That was the last straw for me.

The episode seemed a little odd because it started off so focused on fair play and good sportsmanship (with Applejack representing the proper perspective), and then wandered off into declaring that both AJ and RD were wrong for being hyper-competitive, and the cheating didn't matter at all! Very strange.

I spent awhile waiting for Rainbow Dash to get thwarted and realize her mistake and try to do better, but it didn't happen. Then I waited for her antics to catch up to her in a future story, maybe have her recognize the harm she was doing in a later episode. But eventually I determined that the show's creators really didn't see her behavior as a big deal, and there was no point in hoping for a 'redemption' story like other wrongdoers had received. Fair enough, it's their show not mine.

But I still really don't like Rainbow Dash. At all.