"Newbie Dash", or "FUCK THIS FUCK THIS FUCK THIS" · 4:48pm May 7th, 2016
Hey, remember how Wonderbolts Academy used Lightning Dust as a foil to show that Rainbow wasn't reckless and was willing to give up her dream to do what she thought was right? Hey, remember how in Flight to the Finish Rainbow's whole point to Scootaloo was the importance of being a good team member? Hey, remember how in Gilda the Brush Off Rainbow understood hazing? Doesn't matter! Today's episode sure as hell didn't remember much about Rainbow's character, which means it's yet another black mark for Rainbow since Rainbow Falls destroyed her character.
Forgetting past character growth seems to be a bigger and bigger problem for the show as it continues, and it's really starting to piss me off. Either the new episodes are canonically wrong, like today's episode, or they require a lot of rationalization and mental acrobatics to fit into canon, like No Second Prances.
Newbie Dash fails as a character episode because I have no idea which interpretation of Rainbow it's trying to explore. It's like the show created an entirely new character just for this episode and painted her like Rainbow.
Fuck this.
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