Talk:The Gift of the Maud Pie/@comment-27578467-20160405023343/@comment-27578467-20160405042603

She’s been shown to be overdramatic at times, sure – that’s part of her personality – but it’s always fairly contained and short-lived before she returns to normal. The one scene in Suited for Success is a bit out there, but it’s mostly just tagging onto some decent references – Scarlet O’Hara from Gone with the Wind and Greta Garbo from Grand Hotel.

I mean, compare your example from episode 1 with how she gushes over Manehattan here. Her admiration of Canterlot in the very first episode is just a brief exposition about how she likes high-society, and her excitement doesn’t go very far. In this episode though, despite having been to the city at least several times before - not to mention having taken part in plenty of very high-society events - and having a fairly measured reaction in those scenes, here she squeals with childish glee about her excitement and she looks on the city from the train. And this right after saying she would never react that way, which I realize is meant to be part of a joke, but up until now Rarity’s been shown to be pretty good at judging her own capabilities, so this drastic misjudgment just seems out of place for me.

The scene in the marketplace was pretty difficult for me to swallow too; some of Rarity’s lines felt reminiscent of instances of overexcitement the Mane 6 have chided Pinkie for in the past. I can understand character development, but I don’t feel they built up to this. And character developments tend to move toward refinement or maturation of a quality rather than toward juvenile abandon. Honestly I feel it makes more sense to assume Rarity is working off some drug the whole time than to try and tie it in with her established character.

I’ll take the criticism of over-thinking it, and I’m not saying mine is the only valid opinion, but I just wanted to vent my thoughts.