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Edited by Mrph1 on Aug 26th 2024 at 10:24:26 AM
I still think it would've helped everything to flow better if Rarity's obsession with him had more to do with trying to get a good review of the town by appealing to him rather than purely for personal reasons. Oh well.
Reaction Image RepositoryAgreed. As is, there.. was no damn reason for it beyond some crush that came out of nowhere and, had nothing to do with anything else in the episode and... yeah. The writers just do not handle romance well. Even bad ones.
But yeah giving her ANY other reason would have made things SO much better. The actions were hilarious and mostly fine, the motivations were horrid.
Well, and her line to Spike, that was just WAY to far for a joke.
..... It was her being an utter bitch, and beyond that. There was nothing funny about that. She knows full well how he feels... and says THAT to him, that there is no way he could understand? Spike should have flipped her a claw and walked out at that point. That wasn't funny, that was just nasty and cruel.
At least they didn't forget about him. Rarity's thing with Spike has always been a bit odd; she's aware of his thing for her, but at the same time she's pretty much always treated him as more of a little brother than anything else. To his credit, he took the whole deal well. Probably because he knew it wouldn't end well for her.
And now I go to bed.
In unrelated news, I came across a fic called An Alien Walks Amongst Us that has an interesting comments section. The first few comments are all talking about how horrible the story is, but then it suddenly switches to people gushing. Either the story got a lot better, or only the people who really liked it were willing to stick with it past the first chapter. Possible both.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayI have a hard time seeing Rarity as an asshole when she's pretty much having a giant mental breakdown, but eh. If that's how you want to see it.
I wasn't a huge fan of the episode at all, so I'm perfectly okay with it being a topic that doesn't come up often.
Unrelated random note
edited 8th Feb '14 9:32:57 PM by Swasfewses
animal-lovingThis happens wherever I go. There's no denying it anymore. I'm the common factor.
Hell, even now. What is this post? Fishing for someone to say "no, it's all right"?
edited 8th Feb '14 9:23:20 PM by Enlong
I have a message from another time...Eh it's fine not to like arguments. I'm ataully the same way IRL, I can't STAND hearing people fighting or yelling at each other near me, it, just triggers me and, I just can't stand it.
But, as long as it's not getting personal, I don't see the issue with debating, if heatedly, different points of view. You don't have to participate if you don't want to.
Pretty average episode IMO
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayI thought it was really funny but I'm fine if it doesn't come up again very often.
http://h0useb0und.tumblr.com/It's got romance in it, it was pretty much a given people were gonna react strongly to it.
Fight. Struggle. Endure. Suffer. LIVE.Probably just standard romance cliche stuff, like with Blueblood's introduction.
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@Story: All I meant was that I thought it was cool that they didn't take any potshots at AJ when it would've been extremely easy to do so. She's never identified as unattractive, per se, but out of the cast, she's definitely the one who puts the least effort into her appearance and probably conforms the least to any conventional standard of beauty. It's nothing major, but I think a lot of shows would've felt the need to throw in some sort of "But she's a farmer! Who likes farmers!?" kind of crack. Even Rarity avoided that.
And yeah, I love how AJ was so matter-of-fact about everything. Her entire attitude is basically "quit bugging me, I'm trying to work".
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