LogFAQs > #879976809

It's like somebody asked, "Why doesn't Tom stop chasing Jerry? Why doesn't the coyote stop chasing the road runner and settle for the dead rabbit on the side of the road?" Because if you take away the most basic conflicts written at the core of your show, you don't have a show anymore, you donks! Your characters can have those moments of self-awareness where they realize they can relax and work together, but if the soul of your show is social conflict, you can't write it out! Rarity and AJ need to fight! Twilight needs to disagree with Pinkie! Fluttershy and Dash need to pull in opposite directions!

They're intentionally designed that way! Six characters with diametrically opposite personalities. Yes, it would be easier in their lives to go in seperate direction and only call each other when their skills are useful, but this is not real life. It's a cartoon. They had hammers for nails, screw drivers for screws, and they threw it all away and somebody who doesn't know anything about construction replaced the tools, and now it's no wonder they can't build a house.

All this has made it so much harder to write for MAS. I can joke Dash won't get into the Wonderbolts because she doesn't have a degree, but eventually the rules will change and she'll get in. Twilight will be a princess, Rarity will open her boutiques, and the kids will get their cutie marks. The most difficult thing about it all is that there won't be a lot of logic I can follow as to how it happened. Dash took an exam and we were told she was a savant for one episode, and it's never come up again - just temporarily had mental super powers so she could pass as test.