Rainbow Dash has made a trade in which she receives a Daring Do book if Fluttershy leaves Ponyville to train an orthos. She has come up with a way to carry out the trade and keep everypony happy. But her plan has an unforeseen problem.
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Oh dear Celestia, I just got it... The Vampire Fruit Bat incident...
But still, Twilight's attempt at reasoning with Rainbow Dash... people seem to forget that, despite Rainbow Dash's protest, Twilight was gonna allow the trade to happen anyway if the trader didn't change her mind in the end.
5656214 This is true. And I can see how one could also argue that Twilight doesn't react quite how she should. However, the whole story was written just for the sake of the punch line. I didn't spend a lot of time having everything make perfect sense.
I liked this.
You'd think from the fan reaction that the mare was going to make Fluttershy live in a fucking dungeon, and only let her out for training the orthros.
Listen, I know what RD did was stupid; that was kind of the point of the episode. A lot of people were made at Twilight, but by law, she couldn't do anything. The rules were that if both parties agreed the trade was fair, it was done for good. During the trade, Rainbow declared it fair without even thinking. It's actually a good rule; after all, having somebody come back saying,"Actually, nah, I want it back," is incredibly unfair. The law should probably be edited to say,"No slave labor," but Twilight was right: she could do nothing.
5657833 You are completely right, but I hope that you didn't get the idea that Twilight was going to force Rainbow Dash to cancel the deal. Twilight isn't going to stop Rainbow Dash in this story. She does say that she thinks that it is stupid, but she isn't going to stop it. All she is doing is trying to do what Rainbow wants her to do.
I just looked into that episode, and saw something I can't believe I missed. Fluttershy does have a reflection, even as a bat. And that's actually what they used to distract her and change her back into a pony.
5705195 Hmm, now that I think of it, you are right. I wrote this off my memory, as it wasn't long enough or serious enough to merit me watching the relevant episodes. Oh well, just because it is now proven to contradict the show is no reason to not laugh at this "what if" scenario.
The whole vampirism thing has multiple canons for how it works, and one of the oldest and probably most credible one is Dracula, and I am pretty sure that he had a reflection, but did not like to see it. I'm pretty sure that is what the show was imitating. I don't actually know of specific examples of vampires without reflections, but I have seen it depicted many times, especially in cartoons. A specific Gary Larson cartoon comes to mind, in which a man is stranding on the busy street corner warning everyone walking down the street that "vampires are everywhere!" Meanwhile, unnoticed by the screaming man, there is a truck from a mirror manufacturing company on the other side of the street and there are two workers carrying a giant mirror, and the only person visible in it is the shouting man. So, if Gary Larson, my favorite cartoonist ever, can get away with making that joke, then I figure I can too.
I do like the fact that the story was memorable enough for you to remember it nearly two weeks after reading it and actually come to tell me this.
A bit nonsensical, but cute.
Always nice to see The Ancient Artifact of Doom (TM) that caused trouble in one episode actually be remembered and (attempted) as the solution for another.