On Newbie Dash, and why I have stopped watching.

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Rainbow Dash will always be my best pony. She's awesome, and loyal, cute, compassionate, always thinks of others, has learnt to put her ego aside and has learnt humility, she's a smart pony who can also monitor everything around her when she's in flight, and been proven to be the best flier in Equestria. Dash had even lead teams and proven that she can be a leader.

Then, a episode about her is written by a writer who has not written anything beforehand for six years(and what he did write was a bad show no one watched), a writer who basically wrote a episode with her as if she was her Season 1 self, as if she has learnt nothing, as if she is somehow not the best flier, knew nothing, like they made her retarded for plot purposes.

So many fans of Dash I have talked to dislike this episode. Her impersonations she made of the others were parts that so many had to either skip or not watch. Back in S5 they did it right, this? The opposite.

I had a talk with a friend, who made me realise that, no matter what happens in S6, we will always have the past seasons to watch, we will always have our friendships. So I know that, no matter how much they try and ruin my best pony, I can discard all of it. I'm still a pony fan, and I am still going to be watching S1-5, but Not watching anymore of this new season or any more new seasons afterwards (with many thinking that either this is the last season, or that the next seasons to come will feature totally a new mane 6 cast)

For a quick Review on the episode by someone who touches on many of the points as to what Newbie Dash did wrong mlpforums.com/blog/91/entry-19… Go to this link (warning, slightly offensive language)

He touches on the fact that this episode has a moral you want no one to learn. ever. And more as to why Rainbow's IQ has dropped massively.

There is many with the same feelings and thoughts, and more:
CronoM from the Derpibooru forums:
-The nickname is also an insult
-It was an insult to remind her of her failure
-They didn’t mention the ’nickname always being an insult’ tradition right off the bat
-Rainbow Dash made it quite clear she didn’t like being called that, and was visibly extremely uncomfortable while being called that
-For the most part they used that ’nickname’ while laughing at her face and snickering behind her back
-There is a massive difference between laughing with a person and laughing at a person. For the light-hearted explanation for the nickname tradition to be even the slightest bit truthful and innocent, all the wonderbolts would have be so unbelievably socially inept that they don’t know the difference

It once again show's the Wonderbolts being jerks, and uses excuses as to why they can be allowed to be like jerks.

Just had to get this off my chest.

To all of you out there, I hope you can continue to enjoy the show I still love, for a long time coming :)
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I'm so sorry you feel this way... Fluttershy (sad) plz  You aren't the only one. 

I'm glad Rainbow became a Wonderbolt and all :D, but this episode just was basically about Rainbow Dash giving impersonations off of her friends to avoid being called a terrible childhood nickname. 

We know almost all the Wonderbolts are jerks, yet Soarin always seemed the nicest. :) He's the most level-headed for sure. He can be competitive, serious, a bit goofy, and is the least jerky out of all the Wonderbolts. However, when he laughed at Rainbow's nickname that seemed VERY out of character. :( Most brony commentators noticed this and were like, "What?! :O Soarin too..." He did ask if she was alright when she tumbled into the trash can though :P... (In character)

And yes, the pony in this episode didn't seem like Rainbow. Rainbow is a WONDERFUL flier. Even Soarin mentioned this himself, but I don't know... :P No offense to Derpy, but that's how bad she was flying earlier in this episode.

I agree with you completely that season 5 was MUCH better. :nod: No offense to the new writers, but I think I could write better episodes than them. Seriously... what happened to the old writers :? 

Basically, the best part of the episode is when Rainbow flirted with Soarin (in my opinion) but that's it. I'm glad to see the bolts again, but I think they could've done better than that. Spitfire should've gave Rainbow some more training (Soarin also could've coached her) and then they could've made her a bolt at the end. It just felt rushed. :| Right away, she walks up to Rainbow and says "You're a Wonderbolt."