Talk:The Mysterious Mare Do Well/@comment-4853260-20120501045255/@comment-2170890-20120620182953

I actually think that the idea of this episode was pretty clever to be honest, but that's me I guess. I feel this episode gets hate in places where it doesn't deserve it (Dash's supposed character assasination, being placed after another Dash episode) rather than where it does (they should have made at least a tiny attempt to talk to Dash first, and Neer Do Well - which Mare Do Wel is based on is a term for a villain, not a hero).

I don't get why people don't see this, but the whole idea to this episode was that fame can go to your head, especially if you're pretty arrogant anyway (and Dash is arrogant, as much as I like her) and seeing as the ponies ages are probably between teens and early adult age (not official, but plausible if you compare them to other ponies, like the CMC being little kids, and the older ponies being adults) it makes sense that all the attention she was getting her ego would be affected. The point was to not let this happen, and I like that idea, and I like how the other ponies (Scootaloo included) ended up tricking Dash to make her understand, but I felt the episode was ruined only by the fact that they didn't talk to Dash first. Yeah, I get it would have been pointless, I get that Dash wouldn't listen, but this episode was not supposed to paint the other ponies as bad friends, which is how they appear if their first thought is to trick their friend rather than talk to her, even if it is to help her - it should be a last resort to do that.

I appreciate this episode, and love more about it than what I didn't. I felt like an episode that adressed Dash's arrogance was needed because it is her flaw, and I think if they had taken the time with the ending this episode could have been excelent, but there is still something endearing about this episode to me.