Talk:The Mysterious Mare Do Well/@comment-2170890-20120131231132

To the people who hated this episode: I respect your opinions and all, but really, I feel a lot of you missed the point here...  Firstly, the reason they didn't just tell Dash what she was doing was because a) she wouldn't have listened to them, and b) that would have been a pretty quick episode. Second in no way at all did this episode ruin Dash's character - as much as I like her (I like all of the Mane Six, just FYI) she has flaws - they *all* have flaws, that's one of the many things I love about Friendship is Magic, it humanizes the characters. One of Dash's flaws is her arrogance and while it was worst than most episodes in this one, from a realistic point of view it makes sense; while the ponies ages are left purposely ambiguous, it's still obvious that they're supposed to be quite young (older than the CMCs, but younger than most obviously adult characters - even if you want to view the Mane Six as adults themselves it still makes more sense to see them as fairly young adults) in this episode Dash gets praise for being heroic - she practically becomes a celebrity for a short time, most (not all) of us would probably have done the same thing when we were young, especially if were like that already. When we're young, most of us have visions of stardom, and would jump at the chance to be viewed as a hero, but because our still young minds get sucked up into how cool it is, we'd just get lost in it all, and it probably *would* go to our heads. I realize this doesn't count for everyone, but chances are if you're young it will, especially if you already have arrogance issues to begin with. Did everyone miss that Dash got better at the end of this episode? Sorry, I'm not feeling the hate...