Talk:Capper/@comment-27578467-20171017070838/@comment-27578467-20171019013423

Concerning The Perfect Pear, I think it depends on what you get from the show. I can enjoy an argument we in the real world would normally find absurd, like Pinkie and Iron Will going back and forth on "half day" and "full day", but the payoff for those is usually purely comedic. I can't really think of major disagreements in the show quite on the level of "one fruit over another" that led to anything narratively substantial, much less the attempted heavy emotional impact TPP was going for. To me the serious moments in the show are only as powerful as how much I relate to the context, and that was simply not something I could sympathize with.

Admittedly I haven't seen Zootopia (so thanks for RUINING it with spoilers), but what I can say is that my understanding of personalities like Capper is not so much that they can't feel sympathy and change their behavior, but that it absolutely doesn't happen with a single minor gesture. The first time I saw Capper's reaction to Rarity's gesture I almost assumed it was just another front in the same vein as Discord's lengthy reformation. Like, if I had the audacity to lure a bunch of people to my house in order to sell them, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be disuaded from it by one of them brushing dust off my shoulder. I'm not saying they needed a ten minute showcase of his transformation, I just think they could have had at least one or two more bits to work from. They could have shown Fluttershy feeding a pet of his, or maybe when Verko arrives he starts bearing down on Capper about his debt and AJ steps in to defend him without knowing the situation.