@Background Pony #DA61  
I was thinking the same thing. Very perceptive of you to notice careful wording. Some people interpret dialogue differently and may get the wrong ideas.

@Dickard  
To be fair, he’s protecting an ancient civilization’s relics. Who’s to say this ancient civilization wasn’t evil themselves? He could be the most evil character if so, a ‘guard dog’ trying to repair his old masters’ machinery.

@Thorned Rose Ninja  

 
@TheSultanAkbar  

 
This literally goes against everything they already established. It’s not like they’re having him change his ways, they’re basically retconning it and saying he was good all along. That’s why it’s fucking stupid.

@Smitty1991  
Why did you create an account just to complain about a show you lost investment in years ago?

@Thorned Rose Ninja  
Duh, he didn’t exist just to be raaaarrrgh evil

So they turned him into an antivillain. As ridiculous as this ending was, I can see Ahuizotl as a supernatural guardian. Apparently in Aztec mythology, ahuizotl’s human victims went to the paradise of the god Tlāloc, supreme god of the rain.

@laofuzi  

Actually, the episode “Daring Don’t” specifically mentions that the “800 years of sweltering heat” is limited to the Tenochtitlan Basin.  

That being said, I do buy the idea of him doing that because he’s frustrated with the constant thefts. After all, the area he’s trying to turn the thermostat up on is the same area he’s supposed to be a guardian of.  

Frankly I can see why he’d want to make the valley more difficult for ponies to visit in that case.

Considering that one of the other ‘Guardian creatures’ was probably Gaia Everfree, I think a hatred of ponykind is par for the course.

Maybe he got SO tired of so many adventurers coming to steal the god’s sacred treasures, he decided to take out his frustration by attempting to take over the world and making the entire world die from global heating, while his devoted minions are spared in exchange for their pious loyalty to protect the Tehncochitlan basin

@Copper Knight  
No. There’s a huge difference between a good character with flaws and a morally grey one.

@Smitty1991  

@proto29  
…what

It is no wonder that there is no continuity for a series like this.  
It’s just heights that have visibility only over a season so it creates inconsistencies in the long term.  
when they start saying too much nonsense they stop the show and they start a new one a few years later.  
it’s up to the fans to deal with the different stories, so that its constitutes a universe behind.  
by mixing the different adaptations one has the illusion that this world is well written.  
It changes when you have a real height at the controls.

@TheSultanAkbar  
LOL

@Smitty1991  
I’d be “flabbergasted” to see a person just sign up to a site to be annoying!

@TheSultanAkbar  
No, I point out critical flaws with the show’s writing and characters. I’m honestly flabbergasted as to how the show can screw over itself this badly.

@Smitty1991  
Oh, wait, you’re that guy who joined here just to post paragraphs of complaining. Never mind.

@Smitty1991  
That’s… stupid. You’re right, the show isn’t black and white. So? And Rainbow Dash is still loyal!

@Background Pony #285C  
No, trust me, it’s a problem with continuity.
 
What really kills this whole thing for me is that it shows that neither side of the Daring vs Doctor rivalry is as black and white as Daring herself has made it out to be and is a rather sobering conclusion to the entire “Daring Do is real” subplot.
 
Even if the Doctor is still a greedy raider, Daring herself is only slightly less morally ambiguous while causing widespread irreversible archeological damage in her escapades and hoarding the treasures in her own house instead of donating them to museums. It’s Azihoutal or whatever is the closest thing to a good guy in this subplot is, just doing his duty in keeping these artifacts protected from greedy tomb raiders. And if Daring Do was really that concerned for the well being of such sites, surely a branch of the royal guard is more than capable of handling it. But we all know why she really handles everything she does. It’s the treasure, not the moral superiority. Honestly, why does Daring Do keep getting episodes? Do people actually care about her?
 
This ultimately shows why Rainbow likes Daring Do so much. They’re both hedonistic glory hogs who like to make themselves look good and often don’t care about the consequences of getting what they want. It proves how the writers see in Rainbow Dash, in all of their retconning bullshit. She’s supposed to be the Element of Loyalty, and yet she’s a selfcentered prick. Actually, this could be said for most of the Mane 6, with the only exception of Fluttershy. Daring really is a less violent Generation 1 Lara Croft for all the good and ill that entails. What’s the moral of this episode? Never learn too much about your heroes?
 
I never liked this subplot and am sincerely disappointed by Daring Do turning out to be not as blameless as she’s always portrayed herself to be. Good riddance.
 
Inconsistent continuity. That’s been an issue with the newer writers for years. Clearly, no one remembers, much less cares, about hard canon anymore! I mean, there’s ‘inconsistent’ . . . and then there’s this. This is a sheer travesty of bad fanfic-level writing and character assassination. But, honestly, I shouldn’t be surprised by this. Honestly, at this point, this kind of stupidity is exactly what I expect from the writers, so I’d only be surprised if they managed to keep continuity.
 
No doubt the EqD crowd will be mindlessly cheering it on, as their collective memory for detail tends to be worse than the writers’.
 
I think this episode serves as the final proof that making Daring Do actually exist in the show was a terrible idea, as I’ve said all along. And, really, that was what drove me away from the show back in season 4. I can forgive a bad episode or two because everyone makes mistakes, but that consistent flanderization of the entire cast (especially Rainbow Dash) destroyed everything good about the show, so I eventually just gave up.

Just realized something. That Ahuizotl only revealing this under when magically forced to tell the truth means he was lying/misleading about the 800 year heat wave (explaining why the inhabitance of the effected area would assist him). The episode states that he did so took keep others away from the area.
 
It’s less a problem with continuity than problem with why he didn’t explain himself sooner.

@Background Pony #DB68  
Forgot i’d posted here before, this is me. Pointing it out to still fit the spirit of the rules despite there being no delete button.

@Background Pony #285C  
You can say he was good all along, but what’s stopping a beatnick poet from being an (arguably) genocidal specist? (Can confirm the above post, am ponytheorist)

@Smitty1991  
It established they take love, but NOTHING about their being unable to give or receive it. (They’re seeing it only as food would explain why they never tried giving/receiving it sooner.) Don’t confuse refuting what fans assumed with continuity errors, even if the new stuff makes less sense.
 
@TheSultanAkbar  
At least Garble had an excuse for hiding he was good all along.
 
Other than this error it would explain a big question about Ahuizotl, why no-one else was dealing with such a supposedly dangerous being. My big gripe is if they’re redeeming villains by retconing away their crimes, why not do this for Starlight? Or are we supposed to assume they already did that?

@Background Pony #5F92  
What now

Well, this certainly makes Sweet and Smokey look better by comparison.