Grover

I'm an amalgam of Rainbow and Apple Jack every day

I think this episode is a hyper exaggeration of what it's like to deal with attention deficit but it puts an emphasis on how it's primarily a psychological issue more so than a physical one. Rainbow isnt dumb as we already know, she just has selective priorities and she is simplistic and hyper fixates on these things. She is a natural athlete, not an uncontrollable loose canon fidgeter, shes just distractible and an air head. I always correlate tank being a turtle in multiple ways with like even possibly a psych metaphor for her like I did with Sloth in FMA lol.. she's kind of on a different wave length than others, and she has to see things from a different angle to understand them. She likes to "chill", she can be aloof and self interested, she can be self divulged, but she is NOTHING like Pinkie Pie lol...

This is my favorite episode of My Little Pony. The metaphors being used here about how idolatry and monarchy are less important than genuine loyalty are very important. Gilda is a great griffon dude lol, she could have been a star among griffons, she could have become a legend to them, she chose her friend over the idol. That was big of her, and she even worked with Pinkie to make the rescue happen for Rainbow, even though Pinkies incompetence kind of got Rainbow trapped down there, she still had good insight. Bottom line, Gilda didn't need to be banished from pony kind for being mean, she didn't try to you know LITERALLY OVERTHROW EQUESTRIA, she just hollered at and ripped on oversensitive ponies lol, but obviously her loyalty as a friend was absolute to Rainbow, and it brings more perspective on the fact that rainbows loyalty element speaks volumes about her and always has.

Applejack should have been honest during the iron pony contest about Rainbow using her wings, Rainbow is cocky and self confident enough that she would have agreed to repeat some of those challenges

Twilight as a pragmatist needed to stress to Applejack the importance of her getting the apples ready for the harvest, that part was missing. Applejack was being SELFISH, no your pride IS NOT more important than hungry ponies or the Apple Farm, admirable as it may be that is what misses me on AJ, but she did just think she was wonder woman and thought she could handle that fact I believe, the pressure should have been so intense that she shouldn't have had time to agree to all those other things and it being the buck season they should have never asked her

Dude, literally, how often do Rainbow & Gilda get to hang out? Like couldn't she have let them be to themselves for one day? What is her deal? She is a needy, obsessive creep if you ask me. Gilda is a bully, and she is rude asf but she doesn't leave you hanging on where she stands with you, she didn't like Pinkie Pie & even agreed to come to the welcome party Pinkie through for Rainbows sake. They could have been more hospitable and understanding than just smearing her non stop while getting pranked as a visitor none of these ponies had ever met? She's not nice, but Pinkie has an insufferable personality and if she just would have let them kick it and reminisce on old times together and hang out for a day, the friendship wouldn't have had a falling out, Pinkie forced the issue, and ruined it for everyone ultimately

Applejack has depth that a lot of people fail to recognize. She struggles internally trying to figure out what the appropriate depth of her honesty should surface as in reality and she often times feels she's been disingenuousness for withholding these truths from her friends & others. It weighs on her and she wonders if it's just polite disclosed nitpicking, or repressed psychotic disgust. Applejack is a perfectionist and she has a very important job, they basically supply a mass with a large portion of their diet, across the board. The Apples are wealthy in value when you take what it considers to spend on the upkeep of hundreds of acres of apple trees, a farm with livestock, a 3 story home and all 4 apples that live in it. I think sometimes she feels like she's lost in the motion of things and feels mechanical, but since overcoming the loss of her parents at a young age, stepping up and embracing responsibility felt like an objective inevitability for her and some times, maybe she "cries on the inside", from a missing childhood, and involuntary parental detachment, replaced by hard labor & endless responsibility. Ultimately she enjoys this "mechanical existence" and it's in her nature to complete things, finish tasks, fix things, and help others because without these things to do her existence feels hollowed out and empty, she wants to take great pride knowing how her parents would feel about how she's stepped up to the plate, so she is internally neurotic about such things.