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10/2/2025, 2:57:19 PM
No.42622923
>>42622150
I hesitate to even call this the direct lesson. It isn't just that the details line up to tell a different story, but that this is wholly something else.
Also rainbow dives directly into depressed hopeless helplessness and needs to be picked back up, so that theme is strong here.
Direct lesson is about a character being differently-abled and in need of finding a better method, that there IS a better method for them in particular which is worth finding instead of insisting on making a known method work. Everyone just needs to find their brain superpower, according to this.
However, rainbow reads, and that is mentioned here. We also see her slowly interact with each teaching method. From pinkie-rap, she learns only the sound and none of the names. During twilght's lessons, she focuses on pranks and physical activities, which one would do if they were bored. After learning her dream is under threat, she reacts with pain and displeasure at fluttershy's play. Plays aren't complicated, but the layer of abstraction is enough to make the experience agony, meaning that anything slightly uncertain and abstract leaves room for doubting your own understanding, which she can't stand. Even when rainbow is trying, the implication of potential failure causes an emotional state that makes willingly continuing impossible.The link here is entertainment. Things which require her to actively try to think make her feel stupid, but things which supply enough entertainment to force her to think are understood perfectly easily. That's why flying works.
During the rarity segment, she responds with active fear just to being asked to look at the uniforms. She yells "they are too much for my eyes," but that makes no sense. Her eyes process far more information than that, and the uniforms aren't that extreme. She isn't afraid of costumes. She isn't afraid of crowds. She isn't overstimulated visually, or informationally. 1.5 scenes later, the episode repeats itself, but worse, by having the m5 bicker and repeatedly showing rash's distraught face, in order to really drive home the point while slightly damaging the actual presentation and filling runtime. Later, twilight says it directly, that dash is being "overwhelmed", which is to say that that is what the episode is going for. Obviously, again, she's not, in terms of sheer volume. Instead, the mere demand that she learn overwhelms by wounding her ego. It literally comes down to that, and when she finally does learn she learns without ever having to think about how she should try to learn. This is the problem they solve, in the end.
I hesitate to even call this the direct lesson. It isn't just that the details line up to tell a different story, but that this is wholly something else.
Also rainbow dives directly into depressed hopeless helplessness and needs to be picked back up, so that theme is strong here.
Direct lesson is about a character being differently-abled and in need of finding a better method, that there IS a better method for them in particular which is worth finding instead of insisting on making a known method work. Everyone just needs to find their brain superpower, according to this.
However, rainbow reads, and that is mentioned here. We also see her slowly interact with each teaching method. From pinkie-rap, she learns only the sound and none of the names. During twilght's lessons, she focuses on pranks and physical activities, which one would do if they were bored. After learning her dream is under threat, she reacts with pain and displeasure at fluttershy's play. Plays aren't complicated, but the layer of abstraction is enough to make the experience agony, meaning that anything slightly uncertain and abstract leaves room for doubting your own understanding, which she can't stand. Even when rainbow is trying, the implication of potential failure causes an emotional state that makes willingly continuing impossible.The link here is entertainment. Things which require her to actively try to think make her feel stupid, but things which supply enough entertainment to force her to think are understood perfectly easily. That's why flying works.
During the rarity segment, she responds with active fear just to being asked to look at the uniforms. She yells "they are too much for my eyes," but that makes no sense. Her eyes process far more information than that, and the uniforms aren't that extreme. She isn't afraid of costumes. She isn't afraid of crowds. She isn't overstimulated visually, or informationally. 1.5 scenes later, the episode repeats itself, but worse, by having the m5 bicker and repeatedly showing rash's distraught face, in order to really drive home the point while slightly damaging the actual presentation and filling runtime. Later, twilight says it directly, that dash is being "overwhelmed", which is to say that that is what the episode is going for. Obviously, again, she's not, in terms of sheer volume. Instead, the mere demand that she learn overwhelms by wounding her ego. It literally comes down to that, and when she finally does learn she learns without ever having to think about how she should try to learn. This is the problem they solve, in the end.