From Fluttershy’s dialogue there’s an implication that the poor guy’s been passed over by pet seekers in the past, and he just wants to be given a chance. Within the vacuum of this episode, the trajectory of self-centered braggart Dashie missing the point to the slightly more humbled one finally getting it works, and works well.Īlso we’ve now met Tank, who I really like. There’s a “but” in there to be said, but not one that doesn’t involve episodes other than this one, so as that’s the case, I’ll leave that point hanging for the time being to be picked up and carried forward again later. In the end, the payoff is rather well done, as the end game does pull Dashie back down to earth and she starts re-evaluating what it is she actually wanted in the first place, and winds up giving up the would-be obvious choice of pet in the falcon in favor of the animal that seemed least likely to appeal to her, until her concept of what a pet was supposed to be got re-adjusted. I get that the point of the episode is that she’s approaching it wrong, with Applejack and Twilight even commenting on that a bit, and there’s a particularly telling moment during the final race after the avalanche she caused winds up grounding her and she cries out that she’s supposed to win, which sort of gives the impression that the games were there as much to feed her own ego as they were to narrow down her choice of pet. It makes for some cute scenes and some really funny gags, but simultaneously leaves me frustrated with just how much of a bully Dash is being towards the animals in the name of finding something to make her look good. “Or perhaps what you need is a dark and mysterious bat!” I’m trying really hard not to let the knowledge of the next episode’s existence color my opinion of this episode, but it’s difficult, because the two combined were a one-two punch that remain fused in my head as the reason why all the build up for the character that Season 1 managed to do for me crumbled back down to nothing.Īnd really, that’s not fair to this episode, because it is much better than my memory gave it credit for. I’m not all that sure what my point is supposed to even be here, aside from possibly just trying to justify why I’m not actually that fond of this episode, while simultaneously realizing that it probably deserves a better look than I initially want to give it. When it’s used as juxtaposition to the story’s contents and allows us to take a peek behind the mask of the informed trait of “awesomeness” that is Rainbow Dash to get a deeper look at her, such as it was in Sonic Rainboom, that works really well, but when that isn’t the main point of the episode (and it honestly shouldn’t have to be every time she gets focused on) and all we’re doing is having her set herself up for a stumble when her bravado falls short only for her to do the same thing all over again repeatedly later (as in THE VERY NEXT EPISODE later), it sort of starts to rub me the wrong way. I have a bit of a problem with Rainbow Dash this season, and it’s that I don’t find her particularly likable, as a good amount of her stories tend to both start with the assumption that you already like her and are also inordinately focused on her ego. May The Best Pet Win, AKA “Dashie is a jerk to animals for 20 minutes”. When she can’t figure out what kind of animal is good enough for her, she decides to hold a contest to determine which one can match her speed, her style, her coolness, and her massive, massive ego. When Rainbow Dash feels left out of activities with her friend because she’s the only pony without a pet, she decides to get one herself. “And the only racer who crossed the finish line with me was the one who stopped to save me when I needed help. “You did! You did say that! She did say that, that was the rule!” “But I did say that whoever crosses the finish line with me gets to be my pet.” “The falcon sure does look cool… He’s absolutely everything I wanted in a pet.” MaTessa Season 2 This week, on My Little Pony…
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