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6/11/2025, 11:56:59 PM
>>42262599
>They had room for improvement but the show validates their faults after S1.
You hit the nail on the head. Dash and Rarity have no physical struggle, they're already at the peak of their respective trades. Dash is the greatest flier and Rarity is the best fashionista. Since there is no room for physical struggle or improvement, the only type of struggle they could have was an internal one, where their personality flaws are what prevented them from achieving their goals. But as you pointed out, the show just validated their faults instead. Rarity's flaw is supposed to be her vanity and superficiality, but at no point were those flaws ever inhibiting her from her career dreams. Dash's is her arrogance and impatience, but again, at no point do those flaws actually stand in the way of her Wonderbolt aspirations. So they have no physical struggle, as they've already reached their peak, but then they have no internal struggle either, because their flaws never actually ended up being road blocks in their goals. People may find Twilight and Applejack boring, but their flaws at least actually inhibited them. We had multiple episodes showing how Applejack simply couldn't do somethings on her own, and she needed help from her friends to achieve her goals, and all of season 1 was about Twilight learning what it means to be a friend. With Dash and Rarity, they started the series already at the finish line of their character arcs, all they had to do was take one step and they'd win. There ultimately wasn't really any reason Dash and Rarity couldn't have achieved their goals in the first season, especially since achieving them didn't even change anything in the first place.
>They had room for improvement but the show validates their faults after S1.
You hit the nail on the head. Dash and Rarity have no physical struggle, they're already at the peak of their respective trades. Dash is the greatest flier and Rarity is the best fashionista. Since there is no room for physical struggle or improvement, the only type of struggle they could have was an internal one, where their personality flaws are what prevented them from achieving their goals. But as you pointed out, the show just validated their faults instead. Rarity's flaw is supposed to be her vanity and superficiality, but at no point were those flaws ever inhibiting her from her career dreams. Dash's is her arrogance and impatience, but again, at no point do those flaws actually stand in the way of her Wonderbolt aspirations. So they have no physical struggle, as they've already reached their peak, but then they have no internal struggle either, because their flaws never actually ended up being road blocks in their goals. People may find Twilight and Applejack boring, but their flaws at least actually inhibited them. We had multiple episodes showing how Applejack simply couldn't do somethings on her own, and she needed help from her friends to achieve her goals, and all of season 1 was about Twilight learning what it means to be a friend. With Dash and Rarity, they started the series already at the finish line of their character arcs, all they had to do was take one step and they'd win. There ultimately wasn't really any reason Dash and Rarity couldn't have achieved their goals in the first season, especially since achieving them didn't even change anything in the first place.
6/9/2025, 11:12:03 AM
>>42257838
Well you see anon, addressing the fact that Rarity and Rainbow Dash's goals involved things that would necessitate them moving away from their friends and no longer being part of the main cast would mean facing permanent and significant changes to the show's status quo, which we simply cannot have. Didn't you enjoy seeing the characters easily achieve their goals with zero failures along the way and somehow still be capable of lounging around Ponyville all the time? What's the point in Rarity being successful if she isn't in every other episode to remind us of it?
Well you see anon, addressing the fact that Rarity and Rainbow Dash's goals involved things that would necessitate them moving away from their friends and no longer being part of the main cast would mean facing permanent and significant changes to the show's status quo, which we simply cannot have. Didn't you enjoy seeing the characters easily achieve their goals with zero failures along the way and somehow still be capable of lounging around Ponyville all the time? What's the point in Rarity being successful if she isn't in every other episode to remind us of it?
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