Talk:Sleepless in Ponyville/@comment-24245960-20160319023108/@comment-24245960-20160407001526

@   Misscellanio


 * waves white flag*

I get the impression that you and I actually agree on a lot of things here, except for this one matter of perspective. And I think that's the key right there: perspective. It's just a matter of individual perception.

But in the interest of keeping the peace with everyone here, I will try to explain my perspective a bit further. As I tried to explain in my previous comment, I'm not trying to impugn anything from real life here. Where real life is concerned, I can actually relate to these characters in some ways. I'm a bit taller and more broad-framed than the average woman and my voice is just a touch lower than the average female pitch, so I know what it feels like to have masculine stereotypes assigned to me. (Some of my co-workers have called me "Shrek".) But here  I'm just commenting from the standpoint of cartoon character design. Granted, things in cartoons are usually a bit exaggerated in comparison to real life, but even taking that into account I think artists and developers can go a bit too far with the exaggeration. Princess Celestia would be another good example. I realize she's the ruler of the realm and all and her appearance is intended to convey her regality, but she's at least three times taller than every other character and her legs alone are taller than just about every other character. I think if they had made her only twice as tall as the other characters, the magically flowing mane and such still would have sufficiently conveyed the fact that she's supposed to be somebody special and important. The exaggeration was just a bit too exaggerated, and that's all I'm trying to say about Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo. I think with their attitudes and athletic exploits viewers of all ages would have been able to grasp the idea that they are the tomboys of the group without having to give them boyish mane styles and, in the case of Rainbow Dash, such a raspy voice. When looking at the entire package, I just feel like they went the extra mile with the details and unecessarily so. So when I first started watching the show and familiarizing myself with these characters that I did not know, I often found myself forgetting that Rainbow Dash was a girl like the rest of them. That's all I've been trying to say.