Talk:Spike at Your Service/@comment-32136229-20121225140031/@comment-2170890-20121225234625

Wait, you're right - it was Wonderbolt Accadamy, not Sleepless in Ponyville. I remembered that there were two positive Dashie episodes in Season 3, and one of which was definitely written by Merriwhether, and lead me to acusing Dashie of being her favorite pony, and I somehow got the wrong one. (doh!) Wonderbolt Accadmy is another example of how Rainbow Dash has evolved during the show though, and was definitely needed after how the otherwise excelent The Crystal Empire ruined her character.

On Mare Do Well, it's interesting you should mention the main six's method of "teaching" Dashie. That's actually the one part of the episode (other than the stupid name) that I didn't like. I was okay with the fact that the seven of them (Scotaloo didn't have a disguise, but was involved, so I'm including her) had to trick Dashie to get they're point across, because at the stage she was at (explained in my post - which, I'm pleased you liked.  Thank you.) there's no way she would have listened to them, but it would have been more in character for them to have at least tried to talk to her first. Then gone with the Mare Do Well plan, when the more realistic "Let's just talk to our friend" plan failed. I don't mind them taking drastic measures, but the whole point of drastic measures is to do them after you've done everything else.

Once again thanks for taking the time to read what I said, and commenting - I tend to have a lot to say about episodes that affected me personally.