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>If some creture did jump her in the everfree, she could fight back.
Then why was she cowering at the start of the episode when she thought a creature was about to jump her in the Everfree? She clearly thought she was in some danger, or she wouldn't have seemed so scared.
>On the other hoof, say that a prank is lazy, telling the prankser to up her game, don’t you think that would lead to more pranking?
This, I think, was the writers trying to show how words can be fickle.
On one hand, you're right, her friends did say things like how her "joke was lazy", and how her use of a whoopie cushion was "like a joke shortcut". And with just that in mind, it's easy to see how RD decided to go and pull a bunch of pranks to try and show she was willing to do the work. This appealed heavily to her competitive nature (especially considering AJ and Rarity were the ones saying most of this).
On the other hand, her friends also highlighted that jokes that only make the prankster laugh weren't very good jokes. Sending that message to RD was their primary goal, and pretty much anything they said could be seen as a means toward that. (For instance, AJ thought RD's joke on FS was "lazy" because it was easier to scare a pony who is easily scared and laugh then it would've been to create a joke that would've made both of them laugh.)
So we could blame RD for letting her competitive nature sweep away all the nuances of what her friends were trying to say, or we could blame her friends for not realizing the minute they start using words like "lazy" and "shortcut" RD would immediately focus in on that. They're two sides of the same coin. Not sure it makes sense to assign blame in a situation with a miscommunication made in good faith.
>...she couldn’t fight back becaise they were her friends.
>...like if rainbow were to fight back, it would be tens of ponies, hundreds maybe. And it would be entirely their fault.
Pick one position or the other. You can't argue from the position of two completely conflicting ideas on how dangerous RD could've been.
>Even then, her terror wasn’t even for herself, like fluttershies was. It was for them. And they were useing that against her. Her love for her friends.
Whether it is worse to make someone worry for their friends or for them self seems kinda like an unanswerable question. Some might think one way, and others another. I doubt either can be show to be right or wrong.
>The worst part, though, is that comedy wasn’t their purpose.
RD's comedy was almost completely for her own amusement. Her friends' prank was intended to show her how hurtful pranks could be, and in doing so preventing her from hurting others without realizing. I don't really see how the former is better than the latter.
(Although I can see that RD didn't seem to be trying to be malicious, she probably just didn't realize she was being mean. On the other hand her friends knew exactly what they were doing. Perhaps RD'swactions mowere wiless intfuentional than her friends, but I'm not sure that that really makes her decisions better...)
Edit: Looks like I'm late to the party. XD I guess I should've taken a little less time to respond.
>If some creture did jump her in the everfree, she could fight back.
Then why was she cowering at the start of the episode when she thought a creature was about to jump her in the Everfree? She clearly thought she was in some danger, or she wouldn't have seemed so scared.
>On the other hoof, say that a prank is lazy, telling the prankser to up her game, don’t you think that would lead to more pranking?
This, I think, was the writers trying to show how words can be fickle.
On one hand, you're right, her friends did say things like how her "joke was lazy", and how her use of a whoopie cushion was "like a joke shortcut". And with just that in mind, it's easy to see how RD decided to go and pull a bunch of pranks to try and show she was willing to do the work. This appealed heavily to her competitive nature (especially considering AJ and Rarity were the ones saying most of this).
On the other hand, her friends also highlighted that jokes that only make the prankster laugh weren't very good jokes. Sending that message to RD was their primary goal, and pretty much anything they said could be seen as a means toward that. (For instance, AJ thought RD's joke on FS was "lazy" because it was easier to scare a pony who is easily scared and laugh then it would've been to create a joke that would've made both of them laugh.)
So we could blame RD for letting her competitive nature sweep away all the nuances of what her friends were trying to say, or we could blame her friends for not realizing the minute they start using words like "lazy" and "shortcut" RD would immediately focus in on that. They're two sides of the same coin. Not sure it makes sense to assign blame in a situation with a miscommunication made in good faith.
>...she couldn’t fight back becaise they were her friends.
>...like if rainbow were to fight back, it would be tens of ponies, hundreds maybe. And it would be entirely their fault.
Pick one position or the other. You can't argue from the position of two completely conflicting ideas on how dangerous RD could've been.
>Even then, her terror wasn’t even for herself, like fluttershies was. It was for them. And they were useing that against her. Her love for her friends.
Whether it is worse to make someone worry for their friends or for them self seems kinda like an unanswerable question. Some might think one way, and others another. I doubt either can be show to be right or wrong.
>The worst part, though, is that comedy wasn’t their purpose.
RD's comedy was almost completely for her own amusement. Her friends' prank was intended to show her how hurtful pranks could be, and in doing so preventing her from hurting others without realizing. I don't really see how the former is better than the latter.
(Although I can see that RD didn't seem to be trying to be malicious, she probably just didn't realize she was being mean. On the other hand her friends knew exactly what they were doing. Perhaps RD's
Edit: Looks like I'm late to the party. XD I guess I should've taken a little less time to respond.