Talk:School Daze - Part 1/@comment-4066758-20180803011946

I just thought of something. The whole point of Neighsay's bigotry was to allude to today's political climate; that fact couldn't have been more obvious if Neighsay was holding a picket sign with "Make Equestria Great Again" written on it. But here's a question that I don't think anyone has answered:

"Why? What was the point of this?"

Think about it:


 * Neighsay's bigotry wasn't vital to the plot. You could've cut all his xenophobic comments out of this episode and still made it work by changing the order things played out. Here, I'll show you what I mean: Neighsay closes the school because Twilight violated the EEA's rules; the race leaders take their students home because they'd have no reason to say without the school being open; "To Be Continued;" credits roll. See? It wasn't even that hard.
 * The political message wasn't entertaining. I wasn't entertained by anything Neighsay said, obviously, and if you go to the scene of Neighsay closing the school on YouTube (I'll even provide a link to it) and scroll through the comments, you'll find that most other people weren't very entertained by his racism either.

With that in mind, what was the point of bolting political issues onto this episode? Who was asking for this? I'm pretty sure most kids - who, lest we forget, are this show's primary demographic - couldn't care less about political issues, and I doubt the rest of wanted real-world politics mixed in with our technicolor horse cartoon.

TL:DR; alluding to today's political climate was both pointless and a mistake. Good going, writers.