My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2/E19 Putting Your Hoof Down/YMMV: Difference between revisions

* [[Base Breaker]]: Angel's [[Domestic Abuse|treatment]] of Fluttershy. It can either come across as funny slapstick or just cruelty.

* [[Broken Base]]: The episode itself seems to be causing (yet ''another'') division. While the reception has been mostly positive, some feel that certain scenes were too [[Dude, Not Funny|mean]] [[Unfortunate Implications|spirited.]]

** Perhaps intentional, Iron Will was just doing his job the entire episode, teaching Fluttershy to be more assertive and claiming his payment when he thought she was satisfied with the results. One could argue that his threat of violence against her was merely a bluff to get his money, especially since when Fluttershy explained that she wasn't satisfied and thus had no obligation to pay, Iron Will respectfully backed down.

** Plus, Rarity and Pinkie's dislike of him is understandable.

** The tomato salespony. She changes the price of her tomatoes from the day before and has a sign clearly stating as such, yet she's the one being treated as in the wrong when Fluttershy underpays her and when Pinkie Pie then heckles her into selling for her old price.

*** It's less that she's wrong and more that she's being a jerk. She could have politely pointed out to Fluttershy that the price had gone up, and apologized for the misunderstanding; this is not only good customer service in the real world, but should probably be expected from a town where everypony generally treats each other nicely. Too, haggling over the price of goods in an open-air market is to be expected; Pinkie doesn't heckle her, she just uses an odd haggling method.

** Iron Will teaches that to be assertive (and therefore an object of admiration), you should yell at people who do things like bump into you instead of getting out of your way. Previously, what character who was obsessed with being seen as cool did the exact same thing to Fluttershy...? Maybe Gilda wasn't really a complete jerk, maybe she'd just recently taken the assertiveness course!

** Trixie incorporates a lot of Iron Will's act and presence as part of her stage show. [[Everyone Went to School Together|Just how many ponies took this course?]]

** To be fair, Rarity and Pinkie were just blaming Iron Will for what happened to Fluttershy. and by the end, they accepted that is was Fluttershy's own doing as much as she did.

* [[Fridge Brilliance]]: While there are a few ponies who act like [[Jerkass|Jerkasses]] before (including Angel), most of them come ''after'' Iron Will's presentation. Perhaps Fluttershy wasn't the only one who took his advice too far.

* [[Fridge Logic]]: Uh, Fluttershy, why didn't you [[Forgot I Could Fly|just fly over]] those ponies with the carts instead of plowing into them?

** Closer to [[Fridge Brilliance]]: Flying over them would be the same as walking around them. She wanted to be assertive and make them move out of the way, not take the easy option.

*** Angel was helping her.

* [[Fridge Horror]]: The existence of minotaurs in Equestria. If you know how minotaurs reproduced in Greek mythology, this makes the fanon theory that Equestria was built on [[After the End|the ruins of human civilization]] seem that much more plausible.

** Wait a minute -- if a labyrinth has only one path, why did [[Too Dumb to Live|Theseus need a ball of yarn to get back out of it?]]

*** Because the path, while singular, crossed itself so many times, one could easily get confused as to which way the exit was and, essentially spend a lifetime trying to get out. The string showed the path he had taken.

** In the end, Shy uses The Stare on Angel to get him to eat. Fans have drawn her doing this in her "get him to eat a carrot" scene in "Dragonshy" since that episode.

* [[Jerkass Woobie]]: Sure, New and Nasty Fluttershy is a jerk, but given how the other townponies (sans Pinkie and Rarity) and her ''pets'' treat her, can you blame her? At least, until she took it too far.

* [[The Scrappy]]: Angel Bunny's [[Spoiled Brat|conduct]] in this episode earned him a lot of criticism, and may affect his overall popularity.

** Angel [[Took a Level In Kindness]] later on, so that could save him from this.

* [[Visual Effects of Awesome]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVt9tFj3HA4&context=C4d4be4eADvjVQa1PpcFPKZ2eSz6waVYSim7E45fIEDxKPwo_U9RA= The head turn scene analyzed in this video.]

* [[We Want Our Jerk Back]]: Some fans did enjoy New Fluttershy, and weren't pleased when [[Status Quo Is God|Old Fluttershy came back]]. Of course, many more fans, as well as Pinkie and Rarity themselves, had [[Inverted Trope|the exact opposite reaction]].

 

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