I like Rarity.
I'm so far from Fluttershy though.Originally Posted by Pike
I like Rarity.
I'm so far from Fluttershy though.
I disagree entirely with Yearg. Rainbow Dash and Applejack both have issues of pride of self-importance that rivals Rarity's snobbiness. And I never felt throughout an entire moment of the show Rarity lacked generosity. Even in cases her actions were questionable, it was in cases in which she did not want to let people down (such as with her Canterlot peers).
Rarity has a lot of empathy. Especially in Green Isn't Your Color (in which she hides her jealousy and feelings of inadequacy to support her friend, even in cases in Fluttershy messes up), Sisterhooves Special (by overcoming her distaste for sports by competing with her sister), and in Secret of My Excess (in which she displays a large degree of empathy by showing him the kindness he always wanted from her). Rarity, while snobby and materialistic, is hardly shallow.
And I disagree with Twilight Sparkle being all substance, no style. This is a chick who sent an entire town into a insane spiral just to report a lesson that didn't exist.
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Personally, I think all of the mane six have their good qualities, and their flaws - which is why I refuse to hate any of them. While Rarity does display some evidence of being materialistic (which his her flaw) the only time it came across as even semi-selfish was during Dragonshy, but in episodes like Art of the Dress she lives up to her element a bit too much, and ends up going against her original vision of design and gives everyone exactly what they ask (even though they don't even know what they really want themselves), when at the end the ponies see the costumes looked better in their original design. She is generous for the most point, but like the others has flaws. Dash alternates between being cool and arrogant to just being arrogant, but is shown to care about her friends and be supportive at time, despite easy impatient (Dragonshy again), characters like Pinkie and Fluttershy are interesting, as their good qualities and their flaws kind of overlap at times with Pinkie's over excitable state of mind, and (as seen in the latest episode) desire to make friends instantly can be seen as a good and a bad thing depending on how it is executed. Fluttershy's best quality is that she is caring to everyone, but her shyness - as "awwww" as it makes her (and one of the reasons she's my favorite character) it is a flaw, as it means she could be a pushover at times, although she is shown to be able to stand up for herself and others when needed (Dragonshy, and Stare Master.
I think there should be an episode that deals with Rarity's materialism - it seems to be one of the few flaws not dealt with; Twilight's OCD-ish tendencies were highlighted and dealt with in Lesson Zero, Dash learned the cost of arrogance in The Mysterious Mare Do Well, albeit in a slightly contrived way (I don't hate the episode like most do though), we recently saw Pinkie's "flaw" (which his at the same time her best quality) being addressed in the recent episode, and an upcoming one deals with Fluttershy's shyness it seems. It does feel like they should deal with Rarity being materialistic in an episode, although they've kind of already done that story with Spike.
This was pretty long, so I'll report my Bronyland results in the next post.
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I certainly wouldn't disagree about AJ and RD. RD is just short of the douchey level of being egocentric. Before I watched enough for it to come off as more tongue-in-cheek, and before I had to watch RD eat humble pie a dozen times, I really disliked RD for being so cocky. AJ does have a good deal of foolish pride in her inability to fess up and ask others for help or admit weakness.
As for Rarity, I think ultimately her friends always come first... but only after a while of her heading down the wrong path. She has to spend a huge amount of time being self-absorbed before ultimately realizing what a pompous douche she's being when forced to make a hard decision. I guess it's nice to know that when the chips are down, she's always going to go with her friends. She's not entirely non-generous as long as her prestige isn't potentially under fire. When it is, she has to almost begrudgingly side with her friends.
I guess I just see a lot of temptation in her. But I have to say that all of the points of various peeps in this thread have given me a different perspective on her and maybe I'll try to go easier on her in the future.
Sweet and Elite just left a really bad taste in my mouth and was the ultimately culmination of her selfishness. Even if it did ultimately resolve with her having to admit her friends were indeed her friends, she certainly jumped through every hoop to make sure nobody knew she was friends with such riff-raff and that as few people as possible knew she was from some pathetic, rustic spec on the map called Ponyville.
I also wasn't saying TS is all substance and no style. However, she's certainly more pragmatic most of the time and is almost like the anti-RD in her humility. She virtually never shows off. But, her hardcoreness about being the A+ student she wants always to be can get her in trouble. I just think she personifies perfectionism more than Rarity and I think Lesson Zero points out how far she is willing to take that.
That was unexpected >.>
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bronylandresults.JPG For some God Mistaken reason, I couldn't get a direct image from Bronyland so I had to do a screen print of my results. I'm pretty sure I got the same character last time...
My wife got the weirdest thing ever. It's on her Kindle and I think I'll try to retrieve it later, but it's all Rarity and zero Applejack with very little of the rest. She doesn't get and neither do it. It makes no sense and while my results are very accurate (so much so that she literally was able to guess which ponies I was in order of most to least), hers is completely bonkers BS.
If anything, she's a very lazy version of Pinkie Pie.
I'd be interested in seeing that.
I think my two results of pinkie pie and rarity were pretty accurate for me, although I'm surprised there wasn't more fluttershy and less applejack.
Julian, are you mean to small animals?
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Here is my wife's. It's easily the most WTF and least filled in one I've seen.
That is strange, it's almost as weird looking as the one I saw that had full rainbow, full rarity, and absolutely no fluttershy.
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Ooooh, so I had a question sort of. I want to pay for the show because I love the show and want to support it financially, but I'm not sure how keen I am on getting the iTunes version. My wife has gotten some movies and stuff on iTunes for her job and it works great for that, but it seems DRM'd all to hell and really hard to move around and have easily accessible in any number of formats.
Currently it's just easier to rip the 1080p episodes off of YouTube as soon as they are uploaded. I can then put them on my PS3 easily or just stick them all on a flash drive and carry them around. It sucks that actually buying it would limit my options to just be able to have them quickly available on a variety of devices without purchasing AppleTV.
Aside from going through the trouble of either setting up a HTPC (which I'll probably do eventually anyway for playing Steam games and watching movies/porn) or connecting a laptop each time, is there any other option to be able to buy the eps and not deal with this BS? Is there a good way to get around the iTunes DRM and have free access to the movie files once I've bought them?
Pay for them, but continue acquiring them as you currently do? I've done that with a couple of vidyagaems that I like and want to support but have retarded distribution methods.
ARG!! Why does media distribution still have to be so stupid. If there were a Steam style service that was accessible on most of my devices where I could purchase a movie and be able to download a copy at will to a laptop, phone, Kindle, PS3, Xbox, or stream it to my TV through one of those devices at a given time...
...if that was an option, they would have SOOO much of my money. I stopped buying seasons of TV shows simply because it's easier to pirate them. At least if they are on Netflix the company will get some of my dollars, but if you don't have your movies and TV shows available there... eff you. I'm not going to the store to pay an obscene amount for your movie to watch it once or twice.
I guess AppleTV sort of works like what I want, but it requires another device and it's a real pain when I could just run TVersity from my PC and stream HD movies to my PS3.
Also, with the prices decent plushies are going for on eBay, why isn't Hasbro jumping all over that and making some. I think they'd easily get a good return on that investment. Also, decent figurine style ponies. Do they have any idea the obscene prices nerds pay for quality statuettes?
So Netflix with a better selection?
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