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Funny, I remember Twilight standing in front of it at one point, having Snips and Snails clean it up as punishment. They didn't care then, and they didn't care in magic duel after Trixie showed them what her life has been like going through hardships. From the transcript: Trixie: Anything you can do, I can do better. Any takers? Like I said, she never directly stated that. Most magical unicorn in all of equestria. Prove it. I like Trixie and think she deserved better. It was the very first episode I watched so I didn't have the luxury of being attached or interested in any of the main characters.

All of what? That was part of her introduction. Like I just said, the hecklers ended up being part of the performance. For all but five seconds, she does one trick and they complain that Trixie is showing off, at her own damn show. That was Applejack's complaint, that Trixie was showing off. Spike was an obnoxious asshole that couldn't just leave Trixie and her performance alone. His pride was getting in the way of the show. No, they didn't. They all saw her destroyed home, and it was never established that she has another one, I'm not just going to assume the best. They need to show this kind of thing for the viewers. Trixie never directly said she was better than everyone, she issued a challenge after the hecklers kept bothering her. There is nothing inherently wrong with challenging someone, she never dragged them on stage and forced anyone to accept it, their ego's did that for them, and they got served their ass. From the transcript: Twilight Sparkle: Dear Princess Celestia, I have learned a very valuable lesson about friendship: I was so afraid of being thought of as a show-off that I was hiding a part of who I am. My friends helped me realize that it's okay to be proud of your talents, and there are times when it's appropriate to show them off... Especially when you're standing up for your friends. I could argue that a magic show is an appropriate time to show off your magical talents.

She didn't even get the chance to perform before they started shit. They ended up being part the performance. From the transcript. Trixie: Come one, come all! Come and witness the amazing magic of the Great and Powerful Trixie! Audience: Ooh! Trixie: Watch in awe as the Great and Powerful Trixie performs the most spectacular feats of magic ever witnessed by pony eyes! [fireworks and fanfare] Rarity: My, my, my! What boasting! Spike: Come on, nopony's as magical as Twi— Twi— Twi— Oh! [clears throat] Hey, Rarity, I, uh— Mustache! Twilight Sparkle: There's nothing wrong with being talented, is there? Applejack: Nothin' at all, 'cep'n when someone goes around showin' it off like a school filly with fancy new ribbons. Rarity: Just because one has the ability to perform lots of magic does not make one better than the rest of us. Rainbow Dash: Especially when ya got me around being better than the rest of us. [laughter] Eh, I mean, yeah, uh, magic shmagic. Boo! Most audience members wouldn't go on stage and challenge the performers integrity before the show even has a chance to begin. Talk about ego, the main characters were the ones who got their egos in a bunch. No. They should have offered her help.

I'll just leave this here. "The episode was a mess. One of the earlier interviews with Thiesen on EqD, and I believe a reddit AMA, had him say that the original script / layout had to be hacked down and it stuck with him over how much overtime they had to do to make the episode make sense. In the end, they still fucked up; they accelerated the initial reason for "conflict" so fast/poorly that they made 3 of the M6 look like petty hecklers and gave valid reasons for Trixie to act out on them. They were front row audience of a free show and were making a fuss about it from second zero, before any callouts; nobody that isn’t a jerkass does something like, but the M6 were made to act that way so Trixie would start her challenges. At that point they’re hecklers, and as anyone that’s seen standup comedy knows, hecklers get humiliated and used to entertain the rest of the audience; of course, making the M6 feel bad is a mortal sin for most of the fandom, as we all know from the way people flipped over Gilda making Fluttershy cry. The merit of how she treated the challenges is contestable, but as far as I’m concerned was fair given the circumstances; AJ made a point of being so much better and used some rope tricks, Trixie used rope tricks on her and put her down a peg; RD got aggressive and used her flight to control the weather, Trixie used magic to control the weather and give her a shock (the same terrible shock, mind you, that Dash uses to "terrorize" innocent bystanders in Nightmare Night, so hush you with any claims she was assaulted); RY called out her style and looks and trashed Trixie’s stage to make herself look better with magic, Trixie user her magic to trash Rarity’s mane to have her look worse. She was challenged with shows of rope use, weather control, and object transformation, and she proved she was better at those things, put some hecklers in their place, and got cheers from the public. If this had been a M6 character putting on the show in front of a hostile audience, we’d be expected to cheer for them; but it’s not, the show’s always had a clear double standard when dealing with what the M6 can do and what other characters can do. Trixie fucked up by lying about a fantastical event only idiot children or yokels would take seriously in the one town populated by idiot children and yokels that lied on the border of The Forbidden Forest; but the aesop didn’t deal with lies or boasting. RD, AJ, and RY fucked up by heckling a performer during their act and having as big of an as her; but the aesop didn’t deal with not harassing artists or biting down your tongue over pride. The wonderdolts and Spike fucked up by taking the show too seriously, putting their idols on mile-high pedestals, and fighting over them; but the aesop wasn’t about the dangers of fanboyism. In the end the aesop as about how you should feel OK to prove you’re good at something if you think you’re good at something; it was all about Twilight. And the aftermath was Trixie losing her home, her possesions, her job, and her pride, the wonderdolts getting prized with moustaches, Twilight becoming the town hero and Best Pony That Ever Lived, again, and some random pony having to retile their roof. Oh, and showing that Dash was more than willing to physically beat up Trixie. But let’s just ignore that part lest we spark a debate on all of Dash’s deep faults and how we’re expected to see them as charming character traits…" This topic would also be more fitting in "Show Discussion".