My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Headscratchers/Season 2: Difference between revisions

*** Also, because we have yet to see Earth Ponies with any form of supernatural advantage that Pegasi or Unicorns have, it only makes sense for Discord to use that lack of current advantage to prove his point. What got to me in that episode was why Rainbow Dash wasn't freaking out because her wings were gone? A huge part of her character goals hinge directly on the fact that she is a Pegasus.

**** She did freak out and give a [[Girly Scream]]. She probably tried to pull herself together for the sake of her friends, but once she was alone and Discord offered her her wings back, she crumbled.

 

* Couldn't the girls have walked through the hedge walls? They're literally just tall bushes...

* After the entire episode revolved around the Crusaders attempting to write stories that met with Tiara's approval so that they could get printed, and after she blackmailed them into continuing... Tiara approved the publication of their next article ''without ever looking at it''? And was caught completely off guard ''after'' the papers were circulated? She knew they wanted to change their format or leave their position, so why would she ''relax'' her editorial mandates? It's true that the deadline was approaching, but that still felt like an [[Idiot Ball]] on her part to reach the episode's conclusion.

** Tiara was probably too over-confident in her blackmail keeping the girls in line.

** Tiara's been consistently shown to be ''mean'' -- not necessarily ''smart''. (It's not like she hasn't been [[Hoist by His Own Petard|hoist by her own petard]] before.) Plus she's for all her attitudes still not an adult herself, so some [[Genre Blindness]] can be excused. Also, yeah, the two points above.

** These explanations would be acceptable for a purely print piece. However, the article actually has a picture of the Crusaders front and center, instantly implying that they are owning up to their actions as Gabby Gums, and we see during the later montage that it quickly caught the attention of those who were spiting the group. Even if Tiara didn't pick up on that implication, she'd have to wonder why they were writing a defamation article against themselves. For her to publish the article and put it on the "newstands" without realizing that it wasn't their standard fare, she must have not even ''glanced'' at the thing from the moment they handed it to her to the moment when everyone was reading it, and that would include not being anywhere near the printing or distribution process, especially so close to deadline when you need to make sure everything goes without a hitch. That's a pretty extreme reversal from earlier.

** They (albeit unintentionally) let loose the spirit of Chaos and Disharmony. You can't get much worse than that, and no one seems to hold it against them in the long term. Not to mention they fed Big Macintosh and Cherilee a [[Love Potion]] that forced them into a relationship together and caused them to go so bonkers they caused a significant amount of collateral damage. Again, no one holds it against them (unless Macintosh's rant at them was partially fueled by that).

*** Not so much in the former case, since no one really knew that they were to blame. Celestia might have had realized that CMC's quarrel fueled Discord's release, but she probably didn't know about it, and Cheerilee who saw it probably didn't connect an ordinary class trip she likely have had dozens of times with the appearance of an evil [[Physical God]].

** Maybe they just liked the name.

** Maybe they heard about the idea of pen names and figured that using one would help them earn their cutie marks.