>>42562032
>AJ littrally gives a speech about focusing on the "one big thing that actually matters" and swallows her pride enough to say the magic words which cause rarity to instantly cooperate. It's somewhat dissappointing that rarity wasn't swayed by her love of anyone but herself and apologies.
Yea, it's a bit backwards how the episode tries to say 'both sides have a point' and have AJ literally say that Rarity was right, while in terms of actual execution, it's really just AJ who's in the right and Rarity's methods were completely wrong all the way through. Rarity's 'attention to detail' doesn't really solve anything here, it only causes her to ignore the actual problems at hand in favor of wasting her attention on things that don't actually fix anything. I don't know why the writers were so averse to just admitting Applejack has a point sometimes and the other character can actually be wrong, but apparently she simply must be stated to be wrong even in circumstances where her solution is the correct one.
>>42562473
>>Over a Barrel"
You know, there's interesting moral hypocrisies in this episode, especially on the part of the buffalo, that the show and the fanbase both unfortunately often completely overlook. I feel like people usually side with the buffalo just due to historical bias, but in terms of actions, they actually have way less of a moral high ground than the settler ponies do.