Talk:The Mysterious Mare Do Well/@comment-69.248.181.216-20120804065508

If people say that everyone who hates this episode is just a rabid Dash fanboy who can't stand to see her flaws, isn't it just as valid to say that people who don't hate it are nothing but rabid Dash haters who will defend anything that hurts her or makes her look bad?

I've spoken to people who can't stand Rainbow Dash but still object to the way her friends treated her in this episode. That's what most of the complaints are about: the treatment of Rainbow Dash by her friends, not the way Dash herself was presented. Note that other episodes that show Rainbow's flaws, such as Fall Weather Friends and May The Best Pet Win!, do not garner such widespread and rabid disdain as this episode.

Objecting to people conspiring to take an action that hurts a friend just to teach her a lesson does not mean that the objectors are biased in favor of the target; it just means they possess empathy.