@Background Pony #2D12

But isn’t the moral of SFS that Rarity’s original designs were correct all along and that her friends should take her gifts without being overly critical? That her vision was better than their’s because dresses are her area of expertise?

Here she wants everything her way (for fame reasons), and Applejack’s relatives hired her because they wanted a fancy wedding, which is what she tries to do (a bit too hard) and in the end she lets the Cakes do the food their way and she does the dress her way and it works. The moral is to let the experts in each craft do their thing.

@Joshua
The comic’s the exact opposite of Suited For Success though. In SFS Rarity pushed away her own desires, expertise and better judgment in order to give her friends what they wanted and make them happy. In this comic, she does exactly the opposite. She downplays everyone else’s knowledge and desires and expertise to do what she wants the way she thinks it should be done. Exactly the opposite.

That’s why a lot of people didn’t like the issue. They didn’t come out of it hating on Rarity, they came out hating the writing and IDW’s handling of Rarity’s character. Exactly because she behaved exactly the opposite of her show counterpart.

Gee, Rarity got hit HARD with hate after this comic.