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Instead of fitting Dash to a tight regiment with a lot of responsibilities, they fit the Wonderbolts around Dash. They deal with her make exceptions for her attitude. The rules of the world changed so that Dash could achieve the dream, and the argument made is that "well she deserved it." But there must be other ponies who aren't on the screen who also "deserve it." Even if they can't fly as fast, they may be less trouble to deal with and their schedules might permit them to actually to go shows and practice more often than once a season.

When I first started doing MAS, I did so in the assumption that the characters couldn't change too much or else they'd lose everything that made the show such a take-off success. Everything feels so different form those days, I don't really know where MAS is going or how to write around what the show has done to itself. If Celestia gets defeated by something once a season and otherwise undermines her own presence, it's not an exaggeration of the character to make her an intimidating and ruthless tyrant. It's become juxtaposition.

I wasn't originally trying to be as opposite to the real show as possible. I was trying to magnify the existing flaws of the characters to comedic levels. If I wanted the opposite of My Little Pony I would have done something else. So it feels especially strange to realize the actual show is frequently the opposite of everything I wanted out of it. It's gotten so saccharine. Every character is a straight man playing off of other straight men to demonstrate that hard is always rewarded by a perfectly just world that revolves around the main character of a story. Nobody has dropped a piano on Twilight Sparkle in years. Now Twilight calmly apologizes for being wrong and nothing funny happens to her.