Talk:Parental Glideance/@comment-10390252-20170507180916

Um... er... It was okay, I guess. Cute and profound enough in the limited nature of the medium but I doubt I will be watching it again mostly because Bow and Windy were irritating in the worst possible way. There is supportive and then there is obsessive although I suspect that the writers were turning it up to eleven for effect.

Spitfire really is understanding of the strange quirks of the personal life of her star flier. I'm thinking that it's either being a really cool boss or the fact that Rainbow's personal misadventures always tends to be funnier than a dangerous distraction!

So, did anyone notice that little Derpy won the first race Rainbow flew in? The only reason I'd watch this episode again is to freeze-frame the winners podia to see if her lazy eye developed over time, explaining her declining flying performance. If I'm right, then that would be a moment of pathos in what is otherwise a fairly straightforward episode that liberally (and perhaps excessively) used the rule of reducio ad absurdum to tell a story.

Overall, one of the better Rainbow focus episodes and one that might explain a lot about her. However, it isn't an instant classic in my book.

BenRG's Rating: 7.5/10 (loses half a point for the parents being so irritating I had to keep skipping over parts of the episode to avoid them).

P.S.: Boy! There was a lot of Scootaloo character building there! Orphan!Scoots is definitely out of the window but neglected!Scoots is suddenly very possibly canon now and I think that will get the fanfiction writers going! It might explain why Scoots so imprinted on Rainbow if, in the end, she needed someone to be her mentor because her famlily just weren't there.

P.P.S: FWIW, I'm pretty sure that the pony who took filly!Rainbow to the Equestria Games announcement ceremony in Flight to the Finish was Bow Hothoof; he was just quite a bit younger and didn't have all-day five o'clock shadow yet. They may have also fine-tuned the character model a bit too.