I'm always hearing people talk about this episode being terrible, but I absolutely love it. It’s my 13th favorite episode of the series. To all of you who say this episode showed Rainbow at her lowest, remember this phrase: 15 minutes of fame. When someone who isn't a celebrity suddenly becomes a celebrity, they often get a taste for that attention. Even if they weren't trying to get it at first, they like it a lot when they get it and then become desperate to get it back when they lose it. When Rainbow saved the filly from the well at the beginning of the episode, she actually said it was "really no big deal," but everypony kept cheering for her anyway, and she even blushed because she was feeling bashful about the sudden attention. Then, when she saved the baby, the crowd was there cheering for her again, and then again with the seniors. She's a competitor; she loves having the support of the crowd, so now that everypony was cheering her on and calling her a hero she became absorbed in her 15 minutes of fame. Later, when Mare-Do-Well showed up and stole her 15 minutes of fame, she became desperate to get it back.
Either way, would you guys feel any better about Rainbow if she had just left the filly in the well, let the baby carriage fall off the cliff, let the seniors fall to their death, ignored the tour bus, let the construction workers get crushed, and ignored the break in the dam? Ulterior motives aside, every time she saw an emergency she acted on it and did her best to save those in need, which is the right thing to do. And, at the beginning, before everypony was cheering for her and feeding her 15 minutes of fame, she was just doing these heroic acts because they were the right thing to do. Despite the cons of this episode, it has more than enough pros to make up for them:
*Super-ultra-extreme-AWESOMAZING
*Rainbow swimming in the clouds
*Rainbow saving the filly from the well
*Rainbow saving the baby and the senior citizens
*Rainbow making a catch phrase for herself
*Rainbow tripping on the remains of the balloon
*The failed attempts to save the tour bus and construction workers
*Rainbow catching a fish in her mouth after the dam breaks
*Rainbow chasing Mare Do Well
*Spike’s a ghost
*Rainbow scaring both Spike and Pinkie