@skybrook

Didn't that particular example <…> trigger a murderous rampage of a giant dragon demolishing Ponyville?

I was cherry picking. It is often a problem that something cute and wholesome is followed by a scene that completely diminishes all the charm and momentum. Like the time Spike got thrown off the stage (in that ep where Celestia cannot act).

you might like the second MLP movie

I tried to watch it but nah… I wish they would have done the same thing but with the already established characters. It's okay though. I'm too occupied with making an rpg game to appreciate the source material anyways. I am cursed to rewatch anything before season three and make a fighting game out of that somehow.

@Soft Lava

Oh well yes, it was rather silly that the design by committee would be torn apart by rampaging animals because they didn't think ahead or coordinate. That episode kind of left a bad taste in my mouth.

cheerilee giving spike a birthday present

I wish mlp had more scenes to offer driven by kindness, empathy and care of other's well-being,

Didn't that particular example of kindness, empathy and care of other's well-being trigger a murderous rampage of a giant dragon demolishing Ponyville?

But yeah spiteful episodes did get kind of old, and it did focus on the designated main characters too much. I'd have wanted to see more like episode 100. They built a lovely world, then barely even used it. If only profit wasn't so important. Incidentally if you haven't seen it already, you might like the second MLP movie, which they kind of pretend doesn't exist: Rainbow Roadtrip. It does gratuitously crowbar in the mane 6, but the other characters are the real focus, and many of them are quite charming.

WOW!
Take it easy Rainbow.

@skybrook
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. 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.

@Soft Lava

Destroying something others made for you just because you don't like it. That episode's message really sucked.

That episode was Lesson Zero, and the message was to take your friends seriously.

Destroying something others made for you just because you don't like it. That episode's message really sucked.