What episode made you start liking your current favorite character?

[Tilgoreth 1,915]

I didn't mean to steal your thunder. :-P

 

I think that's Thunder Lanes job.

[ChikaChan 7,323]

The 2 very first episodes in season 1 

[Tilgoreth 1,915]

When Apple Bloom and Big Mac first saw it, they probably did laugh at it, but they also probably first saw it at a time when it was actually necessary. By the time Applejack was told to stop, they'd gotten so used to it that it just didn't register as weird anymore. I think that's a lot of the point; Applejack needed to make the spa more efficient because they had gotten too used to their techniques, and the same is true of the Apple family on the farm. Once you've seen it enough times, it just seems "normal." 

 

As for Applejack and Rarity: I think this is one of their better episodes if only because it actually tries to have them enjoy each other's presence, even if it sinks back to aggravatingly placing them at odds with each other. The thing is that they don't have a whole lot to bond over, and they clash with fairly essential parts of each other's personalities. The thing is, Rarity's episodes with Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash are great, so I don't see that as enough of an excuse. "Sisterhooves Social" works so well because it plays on the family dynamic, which is the #1 thing they have in common, and that idea about their integrity probably could make for a good episode between the two if they're given some villain to react to, which is what their map episode should have been about, but otherwise even that has an inherent conflict between Rarity's ambition and Applejack's complacency. It doesn't blend. As for that shared determination and stubbornness... I think that's a big thing which causes their clash in personalities. They have differing worldviews and struggle to accept the other one, and that's a big reason for the problems with their dynamic. 

 

 

 

After having matured so much over the seasons, it seems absurd and regressive to me to have her deny going to the spa. This, to me, is the worst the season has treated her - why should she need to be so defensive of her image? I always saw maturing past that as a major part of her character arc, so shouldn't she be a bit less obsessed with being "cool" now? I swear that she hadn't cared so much about that in a long while before this.

 

Like I said Rarity and Applejack not getting along is more the fault of the writers. And not of the character. Early on it made sense that they didn't get along. But they've been friends or the past four or five years now. In the slumber party episode the entire point was that they where both being ludicrous. They had to learn to except each others differences. At least Applejack wasn't a complete jerk in this episode. My problem as with Rarity and how selfish she was.

Suited for Success pretty much convinced me Rarity was the most unique and best character on the show and little has deterred me from that since then, she also works well with literally every other member of the cast, AJ and her are similar but different and when it's written well it's my favorite dynamic on the show, same with her and RD though we see it less, their similar but different in a different way than her and AJ are, also a great dynamic. Her and Pinkie are totally different... yet somehow they work, Rarity actually tends to come off as one of the characters who respects and is able to tolerate Pinkie in her weirder moments the most which I find interesting. She's a great supporting friend to Fluttershy like Rainbow is but in a softer and probably more healthy way and uhh... I guess I can't say much about her and Twilight since they've gotten so few scenes together. 

 

 

Sadly on the opposite end you have Rainbow Dash who was consistently great in S1..... and since then has terminally been the most inconsistent character on the show, both in terms of how she's written and her episodes, she's not my LEAST favorite, in fact she's tied for 4th but she's the one other than Twilight (reasons there are completely different though, less with her becoming inconsistent and more with becoming consistently boring) who's actually moved DOWN over the seasons. Really past S1 it's like typically she'll get one really good episode per season... and everything else she'll star in will be meh and feel weird. It's weird because I think in many ways Rarity and Rainbow are the most similar characters on the show, yet one is consistently written well and the other... well isn't.

Also in Sonic Rainboom Rarity is literally the only character who notices how nervous Dash is and the only reason the rest of the Main 6 go up to cheer her on is cause she points it out, later yes her shared flawed of egotism gets to her when she's getting lots of attention and praise and she loses sight of why she went there in the first place but you have to realize that she was literally the ONLY ONE who was empathetic enough  to realize Rainbow was troubled in the first place at all.

Yes that was very interesting to read.

The 2 very first episodes in season 1 

Yeah that was super cool.

[M'gann M'orzz 745]

Like I said Rarity and Applejack not getting along is more the fault of the writers. And not of the character. Early on it made sense that they didn't get along. But they've been friends or the past four or five years now. In the slumber party episode the entire point was that they where both being ludicrous. They had to learn to except each others differences. At least Applejack wasn't a complete jerk in this episode. My problem as with Rarity and how selfish she was.

 

I just don't see what you see being so selfish on Rarity's part in that episode, Rarity planned a day to hang out with one of her best friends, she got frustrated that things kept going wrong, as almost ANYONE would. She didn't do anything to actively stop Applejack from her repair work, she was just annoyed her planned day with her friend ended up being kind of a bust. That's a very normal reaction and there's nothing wrong with getting frustrated. She'd be pretty boring if she never got frustrated or annnoyed when things went wrong. 

Plus in the end she goes off and helps AJ with her farm problems.

[Tilgoreth 1,915]

I just don't see what you see being so selfish on Rarity's part in that episode, Rarity planned a day to hang out with one of her best friends, she got frustrated that things kept going wrong, as almost ANYONE would. She didn't do anything to actively stop Applejack from her repair work, she was just annoyed her planned day with her friend ended up being kind of a bust. That's a very normal reaction and there's nothing wrong with getting frustrated. She'd be pretty boring if she never got frustrated or annnoyed when things went wrong. 

 

Plus in the end she goes off and helps AJ with her farm problems.

It just felt like she was complaining that Applejack was doing her job. The job she does to provide for her family. How she led her bits very day. Listen Applejack would never tell Rarity that she should stop working on her dresses and come to the spa. She would respect that it was Rarity' s job. Also I don't hate Rarity. She mostly uninteresting to me. I think a lot of liking her come from liking the fashion and high society elements of her. The most interesting aspects of her character to me are the ones relating to her integrity as an artist. But most episodes focus on her generosity instead. Which doesn't interest me.