It's raining mares, hallelujah...



Excellent art as always. I agree with you, Rainbow Dash is one of the characters the writers seem to have most trouble with. She has never been one of my favorite ponies and many of her episodes have been among my least favorites. I'm not saying that her flaws make her completely unlikable - sometimes they can even be endearing. The real problem is the way her character development seems to get ignored all the time. (Now that I think about it, the same thing happens with Fluttershy too. I like Fluttershy, so it's extremely frustrating to watch episodes like Scare Master after all the times we've already seen her conquer her fears in various ways.) I know that no character is perfect, or more accurately, should not be perfect, but sometimes it feels like Rainbow Dash forgets everything she's learned just because the plot demands it. That's just outright bad writing. She can be humble and mature when she's preparing for the Equestria Games, but she can also blow up a weather factory for her pet tortoise and act like a complete douchebag to everypony with mean-spirited pranks? She should be way past that kind of stuff by now. She's one of Equestria's national heroes and an official Wonderbolt! Of course, Tanks for the Memories and 28 Pranks Later would have been terrible episodes in earlier seasons as well, but at least they would have made a LITTLE more sense back then, before Rainbow Dash became somewhat more mature.



All that said, Rainbow Dash has had good episodes too and I certainly don't hate her. She's reckless and self-centered, but also brave and loyal. I hope that season seven will treat her well, even though apparently all the old writers have now been replaced. Just give us more RD episodes like Stranger Than Fan Fiction and Top Bolt and I won't complain.