@Background Pony #0DC1  
I’m not sure what your point was here (and yes, I realize this conversation was from a year ago). If you’re trying to say Fluttershy understood what Iron Will was selling, I think that’s an obvious untruth. Fluttershy thought she was learning to stand up for herself, but IW was only training her how to trample all over others.

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@Millennial Dan  
I dissagree. Iron Will didn’t “tricked her” he trained her. The only thing this episode lacked was some sort of training session with Iron Will (instead of doing it off-screen), so it wouldn’t look like she changed so fast. Even then FS didn’t outright become a jerk. It was when she realized that being mean is apparently the only way to stand up for herself - as opposition to her desperate situation this episode showed earlier. It was mentioned later when FS was ranting to her friends “No, you want wimp Fluttershy. You want pushover Fluttershy. You want do-anything-to-her-and-she-won’t-complain Fluttershy!”

@Millennial Dan  
Iron Will is a victim of Merriwethers terribble writing

@Evowizard25  
If you’ll watch that scene again, you’ll notice Fluttershy was under the impression that there was absolutely nothing wrong with what she did there. She thought it was exactly what they were applauding in her new form of behavior, as a matter of fact. Rather than antagonistic, this episode makes Fluttershy look clueless, and perhaps like she didn’t have a moral basis for the way she usually acts around others. The idea that you can sort of trick someone into being a jerk is what this episode says, and that’s just plain B.S. It’s a total mess of characterization and script writing, and not just for Fluttershy.

@MonkeyDzyrax  
Ah yes, the same logic that makes Celestia and Luna princesses. When they are pretty much god Empresses.

@Evowizard25  
Hasbro logic

@MonkeyDzyrax  
Really? Why? If anything, Fluttershy was the antagonist of the episode.

@Evowizard25  
Hasbro keeps on telling everyone hes an antagonist.

@MonkeyDzyrax  
Iron Will a villain?…I don’t see it. He’s a business man.
 
@Millennial Dan  
I rather enjoyed the episode…though Fluttershy was a little quick to decide that being a jerk is the answer. {Also being mean to her friends. Like throwing the punch bowl on Pinkie after she made a joke. A harmless one at that.}

…anyone else also realize this episode emphasized how economics can take advantage of you?

Meh, it’s a Merriwether episode, it doesn’t count.

This is the same episode that had Iron Will as a Villain, Don’t blame Angel, blame merriwether

@WinterCutieMark  
I hate the episode itself more than I hate Angel, I’ll say that much.

@WinterCutieMark  
Yeah he is, but he’s kind of controlling. I like it how Fluttershy was able to stare him down by the end of the episode.

Despite this, I just can’t bring myself to hate Angel. Because most of the time, he is nothing but good and helpful to Fluttershy.

Granted, this is supposed to be a slapstick gag, but as far as I know, it is the first time anyone’s ever shown an honest-to-goodness, unironic bitch-slap in a children’s cartoon. How the hell they got it past the censors I have no idea.

I heavily dislike Facebook.

@Background Pony  
He WAS being an idiot. There’s no irony in that.

@Background Pony  
There’s a possibility that you posted as background pony that conveniently stupid shit (calling someone idiot? Really?) just to proove the point of the ones you’ve been answering to. Therefore you circlejerked to them.

you really gotta wonder if she really knows what she’s doing to have taken a slap to the face like that

Y’know, I think someone needs to throw the book at him…

@Background Pony  
Do you even know what circlejerk means? That’s a rhetorical question obviously, since you apparently don’t.

@Background Pony  
Circlejerk detected.

@Background Pony
 
It’s a cartoon, big guy. Don’t get all worked up over a little smack.