Quote Originally Posted by Yeargdribble View Post
@Neo

You made some very good points and I think you have the argument mostly won as far as I'm concerned. However, you did leave out the most damning episode... Sweet and Elite. Easily the most horrible expression of Rarities self-centeredness.

That said, I think it was the bile that this particular episode induced that really pushed me over the edge to really disliking Rarity. I liked her much more in S1 and Art of the Dress is her most generous episode ever. I will grant that there are more generous episodes than not, but you can't overlook how terrible she was in Sweet and Elite. I don't know if you can make that about generosity or not, but it certainly speaks to her character.
And mind you, this situation put an insane amount of pressure on Rarity. She was in position to make a big leap forward in fulfilling her dream. In regards to fashion desing, high end design requires getting your name out there. If no one knows who you are, it is difficult to obtain high end clients, so as Shallow as getting into the in crowd may seem, if a talented Fashion designer gets into it, they are pretty much set. So this was very much an episode where it took putting Rarity's biggest dream on the line. And again, this is the only time I saw Rarity waver on the Generosity front.
I did have to look up which episode that was first, but yes, I did in fact speak on it.

I find it hard to fault someone in that situation doing what she did myself. Though if it helps, it's not the only time she did something like this. The first time I find far worse to be honest. Back during the episode with Fluttershy and the Dragon, they were all sent there to get the dragon to move, and Rarity's desire for the gems in the cave surpassed saving Ponyville, as had she just went in and did what she did, minus knicking the treasures, she would have saved Equestria without need of Fluttershy. And yet there was no real consequences to her doing that, which did bother me a little.

And commenting on the Wings thing, the problem was more to do with Rarity's habbit of being a little short sighted, and not even realizing that Rainbow Dash was so stressed over this, and not so much her putting her own desires over that of Rainbow Dash.

And yes, Trixie is a bitch, and wonderful for it.