Dark Qiviut
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If characters are needed to be written dumb just to force the plot forward and/or artificially make the other characters appear better, then it's bad writing; A Dog and Pony Show had plenty of it, ranking this episode somewhere between average and bad.
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[ Instead of being more unique in getting out of it, why not have Rarity use her intellectual, business-savvy approach and outwit a bunch of smart Diamond Dogs instead? ]
An error on my part. It should be "Instead of taking a shortcut in writing, why not have Rarity use her intellectual, business-savvy approach and outwit a bunch of smart Diamond Dogs instead?"
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But the point *was* the contrast between Rarity's wit and the Diamond Dogs' brute force approach. Again, she exploited a situation in which the odds were stacked firmly against her. We have the benefit of hindsight and genre savvy; Rarity, for all and intents and purposes, did not. Smart Diamond Dogs would have conceivably stacked the entire deck against her.
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