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6/18/2025, 10:21:10 AM
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>suddenly being fine pranking Fluttershy in such a mean way despite agreeing on season 1 that she was off-limits feels like one of the most egregious examples of later-seasons flanderization.
To be fair, she also scared Fluttershy in the second episode of the series when they went into the Everfree. Combine that with her attitude in Dragonshy, and RD was never really sensitive to Flutters feelings ever, even in season 1.
But yea, I see what you're saying now in their differences. I think the biggest problem for Dash is that the show never goes all the way in calling her out for her aggressive and over competitive behavior. The closest we get is Fall Weather Friends and Non-Compete Clause, and in those episodes, the show just ignores Dash instigating and starting the entire ordeal, and treats Applejack as "equally in the wrong" for retaliating against Dash's behavior. The whole 'you shouldn't put competition over friendship' moral kinda falls flat when Dash is the one who made the decision that winning is more important than her friendship with AJ, and AJ is only responding in kind after having their friendship effectively thrown in her face. In both these episodes, it's Dash being *the* problem with her attitude and behavior, but AJ gets held as equally responsible for Dash's fuck-ups. Not once does anyone ever tell Dash "Hey, put your ego aside for once and stop turning everything into a competition that you HAVE to win".
On a related note to that, something that gets a good laugh out of me is in that song Flawless, Dash has the line of "My confidence gives me the courage to fail." Meanwhile in reality, Dash fucking HATES failing and is literally the most failure averse of the group, and we have multiple episodes about how bitchy she gets if she loses something. She doesn't have the courage to fail at all, lol. She's the worst type of person to compete with.
>suddenly being fine pranking Fluttershy in such a mean way despite agreeing on season 1 that she was off-limits feels like one of the most egregious examples of later-seasons flanderization.
To be fair, she also scared Fluttershy in the second episode of the series when they went into the Everfree. Combine that with her attitude in Dragonshy, and RD was never really sensitive to Flutters feelings ever, even in season 1.
But yea, I see what you're saying now in their differences. I think the biggest problem for Dash is that the show never goes all the way in calling her out for her aggressive and over competitive behavior. The closest we get is Fall Weather Friends and Non-Compete Clause, and in those episodes, the show just ignores Dash instigating and starting the entire ordeal, and treats Applejack as "equally in the wrong" for retaliating against Dash's behavior. The whole 'you shouldn't put competition over friendship' moral kinda falls flat when Dash is the one who made the decision that winning is more important than her friendship with AJ, and AJ is only responding in kind after having their friendship effectively thrown in her face. In both these episodes, it's Dash being *the* problem with her attitude and behavior, but AJ gets held as equally responsible for Dash's fuck-ups. Not once does anyone ever tell Dash "Hey, put your ego aside for once and stop turning everything into a competition that you HAVE to win".
On a related note to that, something that gets a good laugh out of me is in that song Flawless, Dash has the line of "My confidence gives me the courage to fail." Meanwhile in reality, Dash fucking HATES failing and is literally the most failure averse of the group, and we have multiple episodes about how bitchy she gets if she loses something. She doesn't have the courage to fail at all, lol. She's the worst type of person to compete with.
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