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Ironically, the same message is told in "the swarm of the century" in which noone listens to pinkie pie as she tries to get rid of the parasprites.
No, I actually meant one of the later episodes, in which fluttershy asks for a new home settlement for poor animals and gets upset when the result doesn't look much welcome. Yes, it sucks when you ask to get one thing and get another, but those workers who helped fluttershy did their best job according to builder's common grounds and rules. By crushing their work, it comes off as vile and disrespectul.
The better ending would be - keep the home intact and work around it to make the area more animal-friendly. Talk to those workers and make them understand that not every goal can be pursued by one strict approach. The workers don't get it? Fine, maybe they don't get it but the viewer does it for them. Maybe some of those workers could've seen what's wrong and work on improving the situation. But instead we get, although an action packed, but souless scene of dash breaking things up quickly.
This is not in the spirit of mlp's basis of storytelling. Well, at least that's how I see it. One writer gave us some trully heartwarming moments like cheerilee giving spike a birthday present, while other writers gave us fluttershy being bullied in "putting your hoof down". It's sad when multiple minds are united in making a story because it becomes a messy collaboration in which everyone sees one character different.
I wish mlp had more scenes to offer driven by kindness, empathy and care of other's well-being, while still focusing on a conflict to get a story going. But instead it tried to be more of a slice-of-life sitcom with wacky pacing and down to earth humor. The background ponies in mlp only serve a purpose to be a filler. There was never a feeling of immersion. It's almost like everything in the world resolves around the mane six, not the other way around.
Mlp is just a vacuum of pleasantries exchanged by a chosen set of marketable toys.
Ironically, the same message is told in "the swarm of the century" in which noone listens to pinkie pie as she tries to get rid of the parasprites.
No, I actually meant one of the later episodes, in which fluttershy asks for a new home settlement for poor animals and gets upset when the result doesn't look much welcome. Yes, it sucks when you ask to get one thing and get another, but those workers who helped fluttershy did their best job according to builder's common grounds and rules. By crushing their work, it comes off as vile and disrespectul.
The better ending would be - keep the home intact and work around it to make the area more animal-friendly. Talk to those workers and make them understand that not every goal can be pursued by one strict approach. The workers don't get it? Fine, maybe they don't get it but the viewer does
This is not in the spirit of mlp's basis of storytelling. Well, at least that's how I see it. One writer gave us some trully heartwarming moments like cheerilee giving spike a birthday present, while other writers gave us fluttershy being bullied in "putting your hoof down". It's sad when multiple minds are united in making a story because it becomes a messy collaboration in which everyone sees one character different.
I wish mlp had more scenes to offer driven by kindness, empathy and care of other's well-being, while still focusing on a conflict to get a story going. But instead it tried to be more of a slice-of-life sitcom with wacky pacing and down to earth humor. The background ponies in mlp only serve a purpose to be a filler. There was never a feeling of immersion. It's almost like everything in the world resolves around the mane six, not the other way around.
Mlp is just a vacuum of pleasantries exchanged by a chosen set of marketable toys.