Mare do well! why so much hate?!

[sweetolebob18 728]

I once read a poem (Ogden Nash? ICR)

I do not like thee, Dr. Fell.

The reason why I can not tell.

It's not sight, or sound, or even smell.

BUT, I do not like thee, Dr. Fell.

 

I feel the same way about this episode.  It's not as lame as Mystery on the Friendship Express (possibly my least favorite episode), but I just don't like it.

[Castle Bleck 19,512]

It's not as lame as Mystery on the Friendship Express (possibly my least favorite episode),

 

Rainbow Falls is my least.

 

The Mysterious Mare Do Well only has 1 issue that really bugs me, whereas RF makes me headdesk all the way through until I look like this:

 

[Stellafera 3,836]

I, for one, really liked it.  Sure, Rainbow's behavior was pretty over-the-top, but I thought it was fine because it was in line with her character, and more specifically, because she hadn't had a good lesson in humility yet.  And after this episode, she never went that overboard again.  She remained Rainbow, but within reason.  She didn't need to rel-earn the lesson over and over, so I thought it worked fine.

 

Yeah, most of the time since then she's only been really arrogant as a joke. Sort of like how Applejack learnt in Applebuck Season that she can rely on her friends and still frequently references that moral and never really has problems asking for help afterwards.