Talk:Rarity/@comment-26258430-20151206223533/@comment-28087066-20160329222337

This is aimed at Goldenline. I'm new here and I'm not quite sure how comments work, but I'll try my best to present my argument in a way that isn't obtrusive. ''“I don't think that exactly represents from where I am coming from. It also feels like splitting hairs.Her "reveling" or being "overwhelmed" seem to generally point to the same thing. Both "reveling in her ego" or getting "overwhelmed" could both be taken as "accusations" for roughly the same thing. It being a huge "ego" trip or "important moment in her life" both seem to allude to the same thing.”'' This is a false equivalence fallacy. You’re making a claim that being overwhelmed by pressure is essentially the same thing as being egotistical. That’s...silly, to say the least. Being overwhelmed is a natural response to being faced with intense amounts of emotional turmoil and pressure - it was explained as early as the pilot that Rarity’s dream was to live in Canterlot and it could easily be inferred that she wanted to own and operate a business there due to the amount of herself that she put into the business that she owned and operated in Ponyville. In “Canterlot Boutique,” she found herself in a predicament where her dream of owning and operating her boutique the way she had always imagined was being put in jeopardy by her new manager being much more profit and business focused. While in the world of business there is absolutely nothing wrong with being profit and business focused, but Rarity herself is more into Fashion Design for the art of it and the profit and business aspects were more out of necessity than out of desire. The clash of ideals between her and Sassy on how to own and operate business was compromising her vision for the store she had always dreamed of owning and operating. If you want to question why she hired Sassy, a clearly business minded pony to operate a small, more craft-oriented store, then that’d be one thing, but to proclaim that a natural and even human reaction towards watching something you’ve longed for all of your life be put in a position to where the initial vision the one in question has always had is being corrupted then you’re either completely out of touch with the emotional aspects of characterization in writing or you’re just faking as much and trying to force natural reactions into a purely logical to forge an argument out of confirmation bias. Maybe the latter half of that is just me forming assumptions because of my own cynicism with people on the internet, but either way I can’t really buy what you’re selling here. tl;dr - For it to have been egotistical it would've had to been a created reaction instead of a natural reaction. Seeing how Rarity has been characterized in the past as well as in the present-tense of this episode, then I'd say that it's a very safe bet that it wasn't a forced reaction to bring attention to herself.

Anyway, after reading through the rest of what you've had to say, I've come to the conclusion that this is a recurring theme in every point you make. You're simply using the flaws in something as inherently illogical as emotions like anger and sadness (from a singular episode, I should add) and trying to force logic onto something that is, as I said, illogical in order to run something along the lines of a smear campaign on a character.

I've figured out why I felt so compelled to create an account just to respond to you, at the very least. Your criticisms suck, and the reason they suck is because you're either missing out on or willingly ignoring an entire aspect of the common standard of good characterization. You're either talking out of your ass here or you're just abusing confirmation bias, to put it bluntly.

In order for a character to be compelling, at least by most standards I know, emotion is pretty damn important. They're also something that almost everybody won't react logically to when they get overwhelmed by them. While emotion isn't purely the sole aspect of characterization, it's part of what will cause the audience to connect and latch onto characters and care about the conflicts they're faced with.

You're completely undercutting that aspect of characterization to favor what logic would dictate one should do in order to leverage criticisms against a character, however - and, as a result, your arguments are sound but if they were to be followed through on then I'm relatively certain that the intrigue of the show would decline significantly because the emotional conflicts that FiM has used to distinct itself from other shows of this type would basically be removed.

Like I've said, I personally think you're doing this as a form of confirmation bias, but I have no proof on that. Either way, though, it's pretty easy to see why people would disagree with you here. It'd make the show boring if the writers were to follow through on your criticisms and it'd remove part of the charm of the character as well, that being how passionate she is about her art in order to just factory produce things in order to turn a profit.