Talk:Dragon Quest/@comment-4826523-20131223211019

I, personally, didn't like Dragon Quest because it presented a lousy message. If you sit down and analyze it, you will notice that the show was all about: Ponies = girls and Dragons = boys. And that being "boyish" was bad and wrong, and Spike should not try to be like that. Now, I'm all in about the whole gender equality, but portraying an entire gender as "evil" isn't a good message, especially in a show that is, in its core, aimed for young children audiences. (regardless of how many in said audience is a grown up, of course)

If the episode has something like, at the end, an adult Dragon explaining to Spike that the other Dragons were young and reckless, and that being a Dragon was not about just tail wrestling and stealing eggs, or maybe some female dragons mixed in the gang of teenage Dragons that Spike was hanging out with, or something like that, then I would be more inclined to like it.

The other thing that I really didn't like was a line of Applejack at the start of the episode, where Spike says that he doesn't act like other dragons, and Applejack replies with "why would you want to act like other Dragons?" I mean, seriously?

Let me put it this way: Try saying to a black person that does not act like the stereotypical image that society has about black people that "he doesn't act like a black person, and why would he want to?" and see how he would react? Or an asian, or Latin-American, or any minority? Yeah? No way you'll do that, right? Didn't think so.