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Smolder: “Great job coaching the cheerleading squad, Professor Dash! And here I was thinking you’d be trying to avoid us or put minimal effort into coaching us just because you didn’t care about it or something.”  
Rainbow: “Why would I do that? I LOVE cheerleaders! Somepony needs to tell the athletes how awesome they are!”
 

 
Listen up, Brony squad! We’re going up against the FiM series finale in a couple of months (even sooner if China has anything to say about it…), and we need to make sure we have a good Season 9 Retirement Party to get through it! Let’s hustle! We can do it! Go team! …Okay, I’m done. This week’s comic is based on 2, 4, 6, Greaaat, aka: “Rainbow Dash Forgets the Importance of Cheering for Some Reason and Willfully Ignores Everyone’s Problems for 15 Minutes: the Episode”. …Yeah, I wasn’t too big a fan of this one. I mean, the Cheer Squad was great, and I loved seeing Snips and Snails again, continuing the little subplots they’ve been building for themselves, that was pretty cool.
 
The main thing though is that Rainbow’s whole motivation for her actions this episode was the idea that she doesn’t understand the purpose of having cheerleaders at sporting events and just sees the whole thing as a waste of time, which doesn’t really make sense. It’s one thing if she doesn’t want to personally be a cheerleader as she’d much rather be part of the actual sports, but as both a performer that loves to wow an audience AND as an egomaniac that loves hearing others praise her name, I find it very hard to believe that she doesn’t “get” why cheering is important. For Celestia’s sake, one of the most famous scenes in the whole SHOW involves her instructing Fluttershy how to cheer properly, and she clearly thought it was important then. And yeah, cheerleading routines are quite a bit more involved than just shouting “You can do it!” or whatever, but she could’ve put in a bit more effort than she did, and her reasoning for not doing so just seemed ludicrous to me.
 
On a more positive note, I am falling more and more in love with Snails. I’m with CMC–Scootaloo on this one: Snails’ special talent is absolutely Zen, and I feel like this is reinforced more and more with each new episode. He just seems so at peace, enlightened, and even wise these days, which is not something I would’ve expected from the character at all back in Season 1. …Though I guess that’s true of most of the characters in this show. Gosh this show is amazing. Even my least favorite episodes have elements that I love about them!
 
Hope you all keep your spirits high and score some personal goals! Looking forward to the next episode!

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Well, I think a couple of students are going to need pay Starlight a visit in her office. Or stage an intervention for Ocellus. Maybe even both.
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I do miss “energetic about everything she does” Rainbow Dash from the last two episodes she had her coach cap and whistle. Hurricane Fluttershy is my favourite episode just for how… uncharacteristically invested Rainbow is and backing off when Fluttershy didn’t want to participate in the tornado.
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@Crimson “Valent” Azure  
Yeah, that makes sense. Of course, she never really acted like she was worried or concerned about the team’s performance under her guidance (which admittedly IS a pretty Rainbow Dash move), but instead deliberately called cheerleading as a whole “something nopony cares about”, which I know SHE knows isn’t true.
 
It wasn’t a terrible episode, certainly; Rainbow Dash was just maybe a bit TOO Rainbow Dash for me to handle. Different tastes and all.
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I don’t mind this episode. I honestly think Rainbow wasn’t really in the wrong. I mean yeah she was insensitive, but Twilight gave her a job that she herself says she’s not qualified for. Yeah she’s done it in the past with Fluttershy but Rainbow herself has had no experience on cheering beyond what she taught Fluttershy. She was probably worried about being unable to come up with a routine. I mean the cheer she did in Games Ponies Play was made by Twilight, not her. She was underqualified. And when she DID get things going it was because they gave her the idea. She expected them to know what to do with everything and when they didn’t she felt bad.
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Yeah, I dunno why people complain about Spike episodes so much when I feel Rainbow’s track record as a main character is just as bad.
 
It may have to do with the fact that Rainbow is a pony that never does anything halfway, and loves to make a scene, for better or worse, resulting in the extremes you mentioned. She’ll either be soaring high or wowing thousands, or she’ll be crashing hard. The high points do tend to be pretty spectacular, though, and I still find it worth considering her one of my favorite characters.
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I do hate how Dash can more or less get away with awful things yet when her friends are awful to her it’s like “What did you say?!” Like in Tanks for the Memories. As much as I sympathize with RD in that ep, she basically acted exactly the same if not worse behavior as Lightning Dust who got fired from the team while RD became a full bolt in S6. You could argue her hazing was punishment, but that was too late. Then there’s the other side of the spectrum where Dash does something that would normally get a “Hey, not cool!” from her friends and it’s treated as one of the most awful things she had done or she’s given way too much Karmic Payback. Mare Do Well, as well as this episode and May The Best Pet Win when all she does is ignore something she’s not into or doesn’t have the qualifications for. Or best of all, her yelling at her overbearing parents, when she just wanted them not to go nuts over every little thing she does and was being embarrassed in front of her peers is treated as something Scootaloo doesn’t want in an idol and RD is forced to apologize with nothing of a “I’m sorry we were so overbearing” from Bow Hot or Windy. It just annoys me when fans either portray her as awful when she doesn’t deserve it or always in the right. Why can’t we have a happy medium?