Apr
25th
2015
The Justice System in Equestria · 4:20pm Apr 25th, 2015
Willfully sabotage the changing of the seasons and endangering countless lives by disrupting nature, followed by the complete destruction of Equestria's chief weather facility, no doubt resulting in no rain or other necessary weather implements being created for the time it takes to rebuild the factory and leading to mass starvation and suffering, all because you can't stand being separated from your tortoise for a few months?
Yeah, they let you go with a slap on the pastern for that.
Also, Applejack will not cry, so Pinkie cries for her.
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...ah crap I missed the episode... I would bring up Discord but that would probably earn the ire of a fair number of fans. So first episode of the new season not to be added to headcanon
Well... The Bearers of the Elements... tend to be above the law
Just assume the damage to the factory isn't as bad as you're imagining. The overall building is probably made of, you know, clouds, and there's no reason to assume it'll take months and months of mass starvation before the equipment can be replaced unless you are purposefully taking the darkest possible interpretation.
Yeah, I'm kind of shocked that Rainbow wasn't imprisoned, banished or imprisoned in the place to which she was banished to.
I'm thinking that Twilight Sparkle may have intervened on RD's behalf. What's the point of being a God-Princess if you can't occasionally arbitrarily overrule the justice system and allow a clearly dangerously-unstable friend walk free after very nearly killing everypony in your capital city during one of the silliest psychotic episodes shown to date on MLP?
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It is not like Miss Twilight Sparkle got away with genocide. I like to quote President Theodore Roosevelt:
Yeah, this episode looks like a real... dud.
Who the hell endangers a whole town and ecosystem because of a pet? That's the kind of thing a petty villain would do.
You know, a villain on this show.
Didn't we criticize Double Rainboom for having Dash pretty much get away with a similar crime?
Dude, Twilight got away with brainwashing the entire fucking town, this includes the CMC's. The main six have already proven themselves to be immune to the law. So either Ponies don't consider mind altering magic to be hella illegal or the orbital friendship cannon is immune to all laws and forms of punishment were some other skeleton from Celestia's closet were to pop up, pissed at the whole being stone thing, being sent to hell, being forced to watch their starving people, or other odd reason.
I think you might be exaggerating the damage done.
And I don't think we've seen much evidence that Equestria even has a justice system, much less prisons, so the only levels of punishment available are "slap on the wrist" or "banished to the moon."
Fluttershy once kidnapped Celestia's pet.
Well, that's not the only concern.
Look at the timeline. It said this is her first winter with Tank since she got him, but Hearth's Warming occurred after she got him.
Either the episodes aren't in order, or she didn't spend winter with Tank, and was elsewhere while having someone else care for him that season.
3015779 Or maybe the first 3 seasons is under one year (placed non-linearly)
My fanon says the factory higher ups think some employee pony was trying to showcase their idea for making dispensing weather more efficient... and they approve! Too bad they can't figure out who it was.
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It's simple: if there had been winters between the two episodes, this episode would make more sense. The writers purposely point out that it's supposed to be the first winter. They figured the episode idea was good enough to sacrifice the idea of episode order for this story.
3015837 Possible. I prefer to think that she was likely away with her family during the winter while having Fluttershy take care of him, thus why she didn't know. But that's my own headcannon.
That's exactly what I needed after that episode. It was a darn well written episode and well executed, had the best song in ages, good moral, great emotion and acting, great worldbuilding...
I also never want to see it again.
3015577 That's a BAD thing, for the record. Them getting away with that level of shit.
Boy isn't that just like fandom: exaggerate all the parts you hated and dismiss the parts you didn't hate because you were too busy focusing on the parts that you did.
It was just an okay episode for me. Lots of folks seemed to get some entertainment from the crying scene but aside from "AJ cries on the inside" I didn't really get anything out of it. I liked the song but it felt out of place. It was one of the first times where I've really gotten annoyed by how stupid the characters were acting, Dash was honestly played like an idiot here, and maybe it fits her character perfectly but I didn't get much fun out of it.
Tl;Dr: I kinda disliked the episode but not for the factory getting smashed like everyone else seems to be shitting themselves over. 6/10, mostly for the song.
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Well no shit, still doesn't change the fact that there is a laundry list of shit the mane six have all gotten away with that on earth, would have them with one in the mouth before a firing squad.
This episode was operating under the same cartoon logic that lets people exit rooms by flying through the ceiling. This isn't like in real life (or the Lunaverse) where everything has a price tag attached to it. We saw ponies heralding the season by placing pre-made icicles on ceilings.
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It didn't feel right in Double Rainboom because of the way the destruction and danger was emphasized. It's the same reason why a lot of people didn't like "The Good the Bad and the Ponies." Silver Quill says it very eloquently.
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One thing to note is really other than the damage Dash casued by being sucked into the machinery it seems like it's sort of supposed to work like that, she just accidentally turned it up to 11, and unplugged the water valves obviously. The lightning is right there, and powers the machines up most likely as designed. This is more of minor industrial accident than some huge disaster. Also everything points to Dash being crazy rich, her family's lawyers are probably really good at getting her out of trouble for all the property damage she causes.
Still better than Mare-Do-Well.
Also Rainbow got a villain song. I dunno, I'm kinda okay with this. It was funny as hell and no one got hurt.
Maybe that's how the judicial system works?
"We, the jury, declare that it was funny as hell and no one got hurt."
The judge bangs his gavel. "Very well, case dismissed."
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It would be a bad thing if the show took itself more seriously, but I doubt any of the writing staff intended the weather factory scene to be taken as anything more than an over the top gag sketch. It was very much the kind non-consequential slapstick comedy that defined classics like Loonytoons or the Three Stooges, and in that respect I could appreciate it.
Having said that however, I'll also admit that I wish the show staff would be more consistent with these things and not just through all common sense out of the window for the sake of such gags. Scenes like this and episodes like Spike at Your Service are funny in an independent sense, but I still find them tonally inconsistent with the general themes of this show as a whole.
And then they referenced Game of Thrones.
And then I lost my shit.
Score 1 for Twilight Starkle.
3018714 I groaned when that happened.
Here's what I think happened:
Rainbow Dash decided to turn herself in, and after explaining in detail how she managed to pull it off and evade capture, The reaction was:
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3018840 Cool.
3017323 I am simply tired of the Mane Six causing a lot of damage and there being little or no consequences for their actions. Protagonist-centered morality can suck a running chainsaw.
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It not really protangist centered morality if the show fails to address the existence of any consequences in the first place. We've never seen anyone else get punished for something like this, so we have absolutely ZERO context to say how or even if Rainbow Dash should actually get in trouble.
Besides, I refuse to blame the character when it's really more so the writer's fault for scripting the scene in the first place.