Petty Gripes · 1:40pm Apr 30th, 2017
The more I think about it... the more the lazy (in my opinion) writing for Friendship is Magic: Deviations #1 ticks me off...
Exploring how this character could grow up a little different with his aunt's guidance? No, make him an outright an even bigger jerk because you'd "be wasting your time with a redemption story".
Have him at least try to be suave? Nope. Write Blueblood pissing off the remaining Mane Five, to a point that, oh, Nightmare Moon does a heel-turn just to not be viewed as bad as him. They accept her friendship on the condition she doesn't behave like him. Then she sends the spoiled prince far away... to the moon, after he expresses boredom about the situation.
Celestia doesn't even notice or care that her nephew/student is missing until his pet dog named Bunny, banished with him because reasons, has spelled out "HELP" on the moon's surface. If this wasn't for an sad attempt at rule of funny, reality would have kicked in and both a prince and his innocent pooch would have DIED.
Basically, this is just another mean-spirited attempt at character bashing rather than exploring a character, why that character could be as they are, or how their conditions of being raised (like being the student of Celestia) could change them.
So the writer of this comic is a hack as far as I am concerned. Even if the character stayed a jerk, you could have written development into the story... but no. You decide "wasting my time". In that case, you probably shouldn't have even wrote it in the first place if you felt that way.
In addition...
Dragonball Super sucks, and Goku's portrayal in the latest arc is awful. Good day, sirs and ma'ms!
The writing has long since jumped the shark. And unfortunately, since so much of the fan base joined late, even most people here don't seem to get it.
Bashing Blueblood at all is ridiculous in the first place. His character was introduced as a deliberate gender swap for the purpose of showing girls how ridiculous their expectations of men are. Everything Blueblood did in the original Gala episode was a cliche of gender expectation. Expecting a date to pay for everything? That's a cultural norm. The scene where he expects Rarity to put his cloak on the water so he can walk over it? That's a classic show of male courtesy. Hiding behind her when the cake flies? Everything, all of it was intended to show little girls that the expectations that they're being taught to have of men are silly, by showing how obviously ridiculous they are when these men act the way that they do.
But the community as a whole and the current writers don't understand that. Instead they think that "Blueblood mistreated Rarity so he's bad" because he didn't live up to the expectations that the whole point of them being show was to show how ridiculous they are.