Talk:Applejack/@comment-5413804-20130114182130/@comment-5502573-20130114202110

I dont think people see Earth ponies as 'useless', I think most people just take their work for granted.

Let's be honest, most people in the world (myself included) take things like clean water, food, and other necessities for granted. We don't really think about how essential or how much effort was put into the things we need. I dont generally think about those long months, low salary, and grueling work rice farmers do to feed a country with rice.

The same could be said about Earth ponies and the Apple Family. Most people will see: Farming by Applejack<Rainbow Dash clearing the skies. I myself think clearing clouds AND flying is not only more visually appealing but also something new and fun-looking whereas Applebucking and farm work looks.... like work (I think farm work is still fun... just nothing mindblowing and could get boring real fast).

They have tried to make farming kinda cool in Family Appreciation Day with the zap apples... but Granny Smith's senile and annoying behavior in that episode just destroyed any sense of awe and interest in the abilities of the Earth Ponies for me.

If you ask me, if you want to make Earth Ponies more interesting and less 'inferior' to those neighsayers... then I suggest episodes where we see Earth ponies having subtle abilities: able to endure more hardships (i.e. freezing winters), having innate survival senses (i.e. if lost in the forest, they better survey their *natural* surroundings and fare better than others), live longer, etc.

I, personally, think Earth ponies are not very well developed. Faust originally wanted Fluttershy to be an earth pony and earth magic also implied a connection between equines with smaller creatures but no... Fluttershy became a pegasus that had a connection to smaller creatures so that earth magic was were scrapped :/

Oh well, there's definitely room for more world building and what not in later seasons, perhaps