BoshStrikesBack posted...
^I wouldn't go that far.
All ensemble cast comedies are built around lampooning social misunderstandings and awkwardness, aren't they?
That's part of it, sure- but just one part. As an animated show, a lot of MLP's appeal is the slapstick, its parodying/honoring traditional cartoon cliches (chase sequences, moral-of-the-story structure), and surprisingly witty lines and exchanges. It's not all about satire.
Completely agreed, but none of those elements lends any support to the idea that she's a rehash of past ideas. Social misunderstandings have been at the core of every episode so far; all the elements you mentioned are there to make something that could have been preachy and paint-by-numbers into the great cartoon that it is.
If there were anything in her portrayal that were against the cartoonish spirit of the show, I'd be all aboard the hate train. Fortunately, fanon didn't come to pass and we got a character who fits right in with the madness. It isn't as if we're expected to take her seriously: her theatrics were a parody of every Saturday-morning cartoon villain ever, we got a good dose of slapstick in her scene with Fluttershy, and her olde english made for some fun one-liners and exchanges.
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