I think the reason why most of the stallion story arcs are so bad compared to the mare ones is because while the mares are vehicles for telling jokes mostly, the stallions are mostly melodrama and lewd scenes. Big Mac was usually not annoying because he is mainly used to tell jokes. Even his relationship's melodrama was always framed by how the relationship itself was a redneck incest joke at first. Hell. both soarin and braeburn were pretty good in the arson episode because they were funny.

Care package feels like a random tumbler archetype dumped into the setting randomly. but I can appreciate what tamers is trying with him. Apple Bottom is just worse gooner bait braeburn. Arinos is just unpleasant whenever they are in screen.

Flawless managed to be tolerable despite being serious because of how everyone reacted comically in character and DOT was well enough done to hold up a serious character like that. Twilight Glimmer is melodrama first, but she isn't horrible because she is still used to tell actually tamer jokes. She was much better in her second appearance. Also, the Big Mac cloak is good for what it is. If Arinos was more like him and was played off more seriously, his overdesign could be s tumblery as it is and not be jarring

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