CrestofReliability

Ha ha ha ha, you should see the looks on your faces... Oh, *wipes tear from face* Is anypony here not susceptable to hypnosis? Nopony... Figures... Hypnosis is just hilarious, I'm not an unbeliever, I'm just not affected by such shenanigans. It's funny watching others be hypnotized though... The one thing I'm better than my brother is not being able to be hypnotized nearly as easily. At a convention I got to watch him do all sorts of things and he doesn't remember a thing, we bought a videotape... erm dvd... of it. Wow, I'm old for saying videotape, most of these people ponies don't know what a VHS is. *Shrugs shoulders* Sounds fun, I should do it just to prove it... but maybe tomorrow, I'm tired and a tired brain is a weak brain.

I think Celestia's "evil" stems from jealousy. She once had sole control over the Elements of Harmony, the greatest weapon in all of Equestria, now she doesn't being replaced by non alicorns who I'm sure she views as lesser than her. In my headcanon, she harbors a particular hatred for Applejack and Pinkie Pie.... Why you ask? Think of breaking the all time record and winning the Triple Crown with the fastest time to date, and then the next year someone else won the Triple Crown with the slowest time ever, wouldn't that make you furious, sick with anger. Essentially you are on equal playing fields to everyone else when in reality you did "better" than them. Now look at Equestria and you have an immortal magic and flight wielding deity being replaced by a grounded magicless being, you'd feel furious wouldn't you. So that's where I'm coming from. Celestia feels like she is better than everypony when everypony views her and the other EoH as equals.

It's a tie between Rainbow Dash and Rarity. Rarity because she whines and overreacts too much, also it is my headcanon that she is part of the Unicorn Master Race, in the first episode Twilight was afraid she'd dye her mane, so that got me thinking... white appearance... blue eyes... and dyeing her blond hair violet. It freaked me out too that she had a particular dislike to earth ponies, especially Applejack. Much like a real world counterpart I know of. Rarity is less than but close to Pinkamena in my book. Being of German descent I don't find this portrayal of Rarity funny or amusing in anyway. I find it unsettling and grounds for a fan fiction indeed. Rainbow Dash is the tomboy of the group which is not why I dislike her. I dislike her unhealthy ego, and false image of grandeur. She thinks she is superior to other ponies, much like Rarity thinks. Although a rainbow mane and blue appearance isn't a obvious as Rarity's appearance, she still rubs me the wrong way as far as how her character is handled. So yeah that's my opinion, I made my points so hate all you want I'm sticking to my guns.

After the suicide of one of my dear classmates, I was genuinely upset and longed for an alternate reality where I could make a character that didn't die of deliberate drug overdose, and was still around to interact with the environment. MLP just worked out that way. Plus the relateable characters made me not miss my friends and family back home as much. Sure I still missed them but I could bear it easier when I had some relateable characters that reminded me of myself, my interactions with my siblings, and daily living in a new place with a new cast of characters as I went to college. For example, Rainbow Dash reminds me of a friend I used to have in elementary to middle school. He too was obsessed with athletics and being the very best. He also viewed me as lesser and weaker, much like Rainbow Dash and Twilight. Where I excelled in academics he excelled in both academics and athletics, to say I was jealous was an understatement. So when I see Twilight teaching Rainbow Dash about history and the Wonderbolts it makes me think what would have happened if I taught that late friend of mine some humility and such. Yeah, my opinion on Rainbow Dash is heavily biased but not unfounded. So that's why I like the show, the escape to an alternate reality that helps deal with the grief of a lost friend, and relate to characters as I go into a new type of life.

No, they just put too much emphasis in one area and it comes off that way, I don't blame them. I'd like to believe that I made a positive difference in their lives, as I hope Twilight and the others felt with Rainbow Dash. I tolerate others liking Rainbow Dash but I simply cannot rally behind a character that reminds me of those kinds of people who think that people like me are somehow less human or not worthy of being noted or popular, living in the shadows and darkness of them who shine like the sun. However I like it when Rainbow Dash can prove me wrong, even though I hate to lose, it's good to realize that I cannot be the hot 100% right but be 20% cooler at 80% maybe. Yes I deliberately made a Rainbow Dash reference there (puts on shaded sunglasses) Deal with it.

I found a slight enjoyment watching Rainbow Dash struggle at something. It reminds me of all the stuck up balloon headed jocks I had to lead through high school just so they could continue to play football.You may ask, why in the world did you bother with those egotistical jerks. Well because one of my guilty pleasures is watching someone gain a shred of humility and me being the person to make them realize it. So when Rainbow Dash has to swallow her pride and get down to work I find it enjoyable, because Celestia knows she needs to learn some humility. This was the episode I was waiting for Rainbow Dash, a humility episode, where Rainbow Dash is completely and utterly helpless on her own and has to accept help to solve her problems at the expense of her bloated pride. I may dislike Rainbow Dash a twinge more than the majority of the fandom but when she shows a shred of humility like those balloon headed jocks from high school, I smile in approval. So yeah good episode.