Talk:Somepony to Watch Over Me/@comment-4899875-20140314003027/@comment-32136229-20140416091915

"Applejack was acting like a character in a show that's meant for toddlers, and while this show is meant for small children, what made it so great and so far above all entertainment intended for that age group was that the characters were intelligent, 3-dimensional, had common sense, and acted like real people" I could just laugh at this statement. You do realize that what the writers were doing to Applejack isn't anything new for them (as in exaggerating the characters for comedic effect)? Go back to Lesson Zero, where they did the same thing with Twilight by exaggerating her character to the point of making her insane. Go back to Party of One, where Pinkie also got the same treatment by making her crazy during the episode's third act. Go back to Look Before You Sleep, where we see Applejack and Rarity acting like children when they are at each other's throats. Heck, go back to the very first Applejack episode in the series, Applebuck Season where we see her sleep deprivation played for comedic effect.

Of course, you could argue that those episodes handled the characters better than in Somepony to Watch Over Me (which they definitely did, considering I don't think they handled Applejack's overprotectiveness very well), but that's not the point. The point that I'm trying to make here is that you shouldn't criticize an episode for doing something that is not really new for the show.

Also, please stop using the term "Flanderization" to refer to characters being exaggerated in one single episode, because that's not flanderization. Flanderization is when you take a single trait of a character and exaggerate it more and more over time until it completely consumes the character. For example, in pre-movie SpongeBob, Patrick was a character who, while may be a bit slow on the uptake, still has some level of intelligence and is also a pretty good-hearted friend to SpongeBob. However, as the series goes on, we see that his stupidity has become exaggerated more and more to the point that he even forgot what his friend's name was, not to mention he's also becoming an unlikeable jerk. That is flanderization.