Confused101 said: At first I thought he was talking about Fluttershy's lullaby. I completely forgot about Flutterguy's song. Shame on me.



And I'm going to chime in on the RD vs AJ competition debate. I feel AJ was justified in her cheating accusations. To put it in simplest terms, RD has wings and AJ does not. How is this any kinds of equal? Does it make RD a better athlete? Questionable. Does it mean she has more versatility? Absolutely. AJ definitely had RD beat in a few of those events but RD's wings gave her a huge advantage. Also, they're both sore losers but at least AJ had a reason to be upset. Let me know if I'm totally off base. It's early. :lol Click to expand...

Myke Greywolf said: It's obvious, from the events used, that the whole "iron pony" competition was designed to compare pony fitness without bringing wings into the equation. Click to expand...

To put it in the simplest terms, Applejack has been preparing all her life for land-based athletics and Dash hasn't. How is that any kind of equal? How can it be fair to expect her to match Applejack's leg strength given her profession? Or her skill with a rope given her experience there? For shame! If AJ had any honor, she would have foregone the use of her tail when using the rope in the interests of fair competition!I don't think that's at all obvious, given the lack of an explicit rule about it and the presence of an equal number of events that play to AJ's strengths. Come on, RD has about the same chance of beating AJ at the leg strength or rope skill challenges as AJ has at beating her at the long jump with the use of wings.And that's why the analogy to wheelchair basketball falls flat: it's acknowledged that to the extent that the players do have functioning legs, they've agreed to forego their use for the competition, which was neither explicit nor anywhere near as implicitly clear as the other side is making it out to be. I think it should be immediately obvious why asking one contestant but not the other to forego their greatest strength would undermine the stated purpose of the competition, to find the better athlete.