Talk:The Mysterious Mare Do Well/@comment-76.19.41.146-20111127163958

The moral of this episode just seemed muddled. Believing your own hype and bragging about your accomplishments is a Bad Thing (even if you're the best at what you do and the initial adulation is unasked for) but deceiving your friend and upstaging her is OK as long as it's done in her "best interest". It might have made more sense if RD's arrogance was shown to have made her sloppy and put lives in danger (a la Applejack's stubborness in "Applebuck Season"), but the dam break was the only incident where her ego made a problem worse. I also don't remember the ponies getting so upset with Rarity when she turned into a cackling narcissist and nearly caused RD a nervous breakdown back in "Sonic Rainboom".