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Swarm of the Century would just be an accidental Aesop and nothing else, except the moral is \\\"listen to your friends\\\" and Pinkie didn\\\'t give anyone anything to actually listen \\\'\\\'to\\\'\\\'. She just gets annoyed, says she has to get a trombone, and leaves it at that. She clearly knows what parasprites are and the problems they cause, but she never says that. It\\\'s not that she says things that don\\\'t make sense, it\\\'s that she doesn\\\'t say anything relevant at all until long after the others are in the middle of trying to solve the problem. And when they call her on screwing that attempt up and she has their full attention, she complains instead of explaining. You can\\\'t fault someone for not listening when you \\\'\\\'don\\\'t talk\\\'\\\', especially when you just plain don\\\'t answer when they stop and ask you directly what the problem is.
The season 3 finale has always bothered me because Twilight never tells the others after she ascends how they contributed to it. She didn\\\'t know what the Friendship Letters were for, but when she found out, she should have told them. Other people have compared Twilight\\\'s promotion to Princess as being like a grad student getting their degree, which I think is valid, but when a grad student gets other people to do their research for them and then takes sole credit for it, that\\\'s called \\\'\\\'plagiarism\\\'\\\'. Twilight is surprised to hear Celestia\\\'s reasoning, but once she does hear it, she doesn\\\'t share it. I\\\'m not saying it\\\'s malicious, but it does undermine the importance of honesty for Twilight to find out that she\\\'s been unwittingly exploiting her friends and then not tell them about it... or to call out Celestia for it. I know the circumstances are mitigated because Celestia\\\'s in charge and she knows all about it, but the show focuses so heavily on the importance of friendship and the importance of honesty even in the face of ugly or uncomfortable truths, I think it counts.
With the Cranky episode, the lesson is that sometimes people want to be left alone, but since Pinkie doesn\\\'t leave Cranky alone until after she figures out how to solve his love life, the message in practice is more \\\"Anyone who wants to be left alone must have a problem that needs to be fixed\\\".
The Season 4 opening had the same problem; Twilight rejects her new responsibilities in order to continue sticking with her old ones and the old ones are centered primarily on herself (she uses the Elements alone this time, the other ponies don\\\'t even have to activate theirs), but the episode says that she\\\'ll stick with her friends even though her role has changed. But her role hasn\\\'t really changed at all. She doesn\\\'t have new responsibilities (at least, not any that can\\\'t be dropped immediately with no consequence), so the Aesop can\\\'t stand the way it\\\'s presented.
If she had said \\\"I\\\'m not going to let being a princess interfere with our friendship!\\\" it would hold up just fine, but she pointedly acknowledges that things have changed for her, even though they really haven\\\'t.
The season 3 finale has always bothered me because Twilight never tells the others after she ascends how they contributed to it. She didn\\\'t know what the Friendship Letters were for, but when she found out, she should have told them. Other people have compared Twilight\\\'s promotion to Princess as being like a grad student getting their degree, which I think is valid, but when a grad student gets other people to do their research for them and then takes sole credit for it, that\\\'s called \\\'\\\'plagiarism\\\'\\\'. Twilight is surprised to hear Celestia\\\'s reasoning, but once she does hear it, she doesn\\\'t share it. I\\\'m not saying it\\\'s malicious, but it does undermine the importance of honesty for Twilight to find out that she\\\'s been unwittingly exploiting her friends and then not tell them about it... or to call out Celestia for it. I know the circumstances are mitigated because Celestia\\\'s in charge and she knows all about it, but the show focuses so heavily on the importance of friendship and the importance of honesty even in the face of ugly or uncomfortable truths, I think it counts.
With the Cranky episode, the lesson is that sometimes people want to be left alone, but since Pinkie doesn\\\'t leave Cranky alone until after she figures out how to solve his love life, the message in practice is more \\\"Anyone who wants to be left alone must have a problem that needs to be fixed\\\".
The Season 4 opening had the same problem; Twilight rejects her new responsibilities in order to continue sticking with her old ones and the old ones are centered primarily on herself (she uses the Elements alone this time, the other ponies don\\\'t even have to activate theirs), but the episode says that she\\\'ll stick with her friends even though her role has changed. But her role hasn\\\'t really changed at all. She doesn\\\'t have new responsibilities (at least, not any that can\\\'t be dropped immediately with no consequence), so the Aesop can\\\'t stand the way it\\\'s presented.
If she had said \\\"I\\\'m not going to let being a princess interfere with our friendship!\\\" it would hold up just fine, but she pointedly acknowledges that things have changed for her, even though they really haven\\\'t.
