[SPOILERS] Season 6 Episode 7 - Newbie Dash
#1
Posted 07 May 2016 - 04:04 PM
#2
Posted 07 May 2016 - 04:08 PM
#3
Posted 07 May 2016 - 04:09 PM
Over all good to see rainbow fulfil her dream
Oh and what do you think spitfires nick name was?
#4
Posted 07 May 2016 - 04:10 PM

#5
Posted 07 May 2016 - 06:11 PM
I loved the episode! Although Rarity could have had a few more lines c;
#6
Posted 07 May 2016 - 09:07 PM
Oh and what do you think spitfires nick name was?
Shitfire!
#7
Posted 08 May 2016 - 01:05 AM
Huh, nopony posted the episode link... ya'll are slackin'
(joking) Hopefully now Starlight knows what a Wonderbolt is........a pegasus dressed in a blue suit that flies out of control.
#8
Posted 08 May 2016 - 01:45 AM
of course ur supposed to be a wonderbolt thats why we bully you and make u feel like crap and yell at you nice
#9
Posted 08 May 2016 - 12:49 PM
Why do i sense a thousand shippers crying out at the sight of some of this?
#10
Posted 09 May 2016 - 05:27 PM
Why do i sense a thousand shippers crying out at the sight of some of this?
Who cares about them? Shippers are degenerates. Let them cry.
#11
Posted 11 May 2016 - 03:01 AM
I know I’m a little late, but some jokes on RD’s mane 6 5 impressions.
1.

Either somepony left out the sugar, or she’s either high (unlikely as this is a kid’s show) or she has a rare case of rabies; though I don’t see foaming. Cringe level: 10%
2.

Well, honesty ‘is’ the best policy, not the best insurrence policy though. This might be the only time we see her tell the truth though. Cringe level: 20%
3.

Eh, it was going to happen eventually. For the record, RD, Twi doesn’t wear glasses, that’s human Twi your thinking of whom I’m sure you haven’t met yet….unless the Friendship games bloopers are canon & Pinkie told you….which is unlikely. (although this is Pinkie Pie we’re talking about, so ya never know)
Cringe level: 0%
4.

Er…where’d all that self-esteem go, Ebay? However, RD, your not innocent, the courts hold you guilty; they haven’t said what for though. Cringe level: 90%
5.

It’s a shame, Crash, you probably had a good thing going with Soarin, though I don’t think he’ll talk to you again after creeping him out like this. …..Please tell me that Pinkie didn’t introduce you to your G3 self. Cringe level: 100% - NIGHTMARE FUEL
Btw, anypony know the hotkey on Dailymotion to hide the display (the play/pause, quality buttons, etc.)? Also the Youtube link I posted earlier was taken down by Hasbro (not surprised); here’s the link I go these images from: http://www.dailymoti...-newbie-dash_tv
Huh, Luna Lens, we got the exact same image; :/ funny coincidence.
#12
Posted 11 May 2016 - 02:54 PM
I really wasn't too fond of this episode. I enjoyed seeing Rainbow Dash fly and get excited at being in the Wonderbolts and all that, but where was the meaning? When Dash first lands and Spitfire starts all her high-horse 'you gotta learn the ropes, recruit' nonsense, it made no sense to me. This continued on through most of the episode, the other Wonderbolts sneering and poking at her, and all the while I'm thinking 'that's not the way you talk to someone who's saved the lives of the top-ranking Wonderbolts multiple times!'. From the start she was being poked fun at, and that's what caused her to make future mistakes.
Here, let me trace it back:
-If RD hadn't been desperate to impress everyone to clear her name, she wouldn't have near-killed herself on show day with a thundercloud.
-If RD hadn't wanted to stop everyone knowing her as 'Crash', she wouldn't have started acting all strangely and doing impressions of her friends around everyone, embarrassing her even more. This was only accentuated by Spitfire having another dig with deliberately making fun of her on her official Wonderbolts jacket.
-If the Wonderbolts weren't so reckless in landing, Dash wouldn't have been thrown into a bin to obtain the name 'Crash' in the first place. I get that this was a result of RD not following the rules set out for her by Spitfire, but it wasn't like she was being stupid or wreckless, it was an honest mistake as a result of her being nervous and anxious to impress the Wonderbolts. I honestly think She had every right to be pissed off that her personal heroes (and those she'd saved the lives of) called her a name that a few bullies teased her with all the way through flight school.
Anyway, 'making quite a show' shouldn't be a decent excuse for Wonderbolts to come screaming onto the runway. Nobody lands at flying speed, it's stupid, especially if you're a squishy animal with breakable bones! I know if I were someone whose career depended on being in top physical condition for flying and acrobatics, I'd land carefully on the runway, not almost grate myself against the tarmac. 'Ah, but they didn't actually mean what they said!' I hear you and the writers cry. But they did. They said it with complete intent until the very end, where they made a complete U-turn (no pun intended) and suddenly it was all 'Oh well we're all idiots too! We were just puling your leg with the whole 'Crash' thing! We actually really love you!'. I'm calling BS on that.
Point is, what's the lesson? 'It's OK if your professional colleagues call you names incessantly and tease you, and make you do all their cleaning up, just man up, stupid!!' I don't think that's it. And then at the end, Rainbow just cleans all the crap up happily, grinning at her friends, and it's all ok because 'she's in the Wonderbolts'. Why? Why is that ok? If I took anything away from this episode, it's that most of the Wonderbolts are total self-absorbed dicks. At least Soarin was sort-of nice to Dash, and tried to laugh along with her, even when she was being strange. So yeah, sorry, I didn't really like this one. Poor Rainbow deserved none of the flak she got, and nothing would have been a problem if the Wonderbolts weren't asses.
Squint gets it.
of course ur supposed to be a wonderbolt thats why we bully you and make u feel like crap and yell at you nice
Edited by R9000, 11 May 2016 - 02:59 PM.
#13
Posted 11 May 2016 - 05:01 PM
And people completely missed the moral because their heads were up their asses. People seem to think that the moral was to deal with what other people say about you. Even though that may have been part of it, I think that the real moral was that people don't always mean what they say and that all that really matters is what you think of yourself.
#14
Posted 12 May 2016 - 12:00 AM
Why does everyone think that the Wonderbolts are dicks just because they give each other embarassing nicknames? We have awful nicknames for each other in ROTC, but that doesn't mean we hate everyone else. We just do it because it's funny and lightens things up a bit, which I'm sure the Wonderbolts need at times.
And people completely missed the moral because their heads were up their asses. People seem to think that the moral was to deal with what other people say about you. Even though that may have been part of it, I think that the real moral was that people don't always mean what they say and that all that really matters is what you think of yourself.
I'd be fine with awful nicknames. Nicknames are fine when everybody knows it's a good-natured joke. But from the way that Rainbow reacted, she obviously didn't find it funny, and she made it very clear that she didn't like being called that. That means the Wonderbolts' constant sneering and nagging is bullying. Bullying that caused RD to act in such a way that she injured herself in an attempt to stop it. Maybe it would have been fine if, straight after the bin nonsense, they'd all gone 'Aww but it's ok. All of us have made mistakes and we all give each other stupid nicknames!' (rather than at the very end). Sure, ok, that's fine. But leaving someone out of the loop like that and making them think they're being bullied is bullying in itself.
Regardless of that, the Wonderbolts are supposed to be a well-drilled, professional, practically flawless team. Not only is constantly putting a member down with petty digs unprofessional, it's reckless, and drives a wedge between team members. You cannot afford resentment in a team that has to be tight enough to pull off synchronized, death-defying aerial manoeuvres. Fighter pilots don't call each other stupid names over the radio, because there's no time for that shit. I know it's all a cartoon, and stuff is hammed-up to entertain the audience, but it makes no sense for the Wonderbolts to act like this, especially when they were all fully clued-up on what was going on. Heck, Soarin was the only one who seemed to care if RD was OK, following her near-miss with those two Wonderbolts coming in to land.
With regards to the moral, there was no emphasis on what Rainbow thinks of herself. The only time she felt validated was when Spitfire said she did belong in the Wonderbolts after all, and that suddenly made it all OK. They then went on to make RD feel better by telling her what they thought was good about her. There's no evidence of self-validation here that I can see, unless there's something glaring that I missed. And as I said previously, the Wonderbolts sure seemed to mean what they said earlier on in the episode. There was no cheery 'I'm just kidding' tone, they were scorning her pretty bad.
Like I said, if they'd have all been real with Dash for a second early-on, I would've been fine with this episode. But if they had of course, half of the episode (Rainbow's desperate mistakes and attempts to be validated) wouldn't have happened. That's just what I think, I'm still open for you to change my mind if you can come up with something I've missed, Demon.
Edited by R9000, 12 May 2016 - 12:03 AM.
#15
Posted 17 May 2016 - 10:18 PM
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hell yeah all of this. if they said "just kidding we love you" from the get-go it would have been ok but the fact that they only say at the end that it's a joke is just not on. it makes it seem like dash is the one in the wrong when in fact she had every reason to be upset with the nickname. there is nothing wrong with being sensitive and especially a show with a target demographic of mostly young girls should not be able to get away with this. try to fucking validate someones emotions for once instead of shitting on them hazborg.
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