User Reviews

I love the idea of Rainbow Dash as a full fledged Wonderbolt, because it shows how much the show can go into new plot lines while changing the status quo. I just love these Wonderbolt costumes. You truly get the sense that these characters are ponies with the way their snouts are presented so well. I think the snouts of these characters may be the best visual style. I was annoyed by how the other Wonderbolts acted.

Now, at the end it does turn out they weren't being serious, but it was a bit unpleasant to see them act like this. Of course, I still have to recommend this because I really felt bad for Rainbow Dash as she was failing so much at the end. The bits (not to be confused with their currency) where she impersonated the other characters was really funny. I guess it just seemed weird coming from Soarin of all ponies. I'm not into much of the shipping in this series as there's such an uneven number of females. If they do end up together, I guess by default it would be the best pairing for her. ***.

This episode features Rainbow Dash finally being welcomed into the Wonderbolts fly team. Cool, right? YET, it's not at all that bright and exciting throughout the rest of the episode. First off the other members automatically call her "Newbie", as if Rainbow Dash doesn't have a name. Strike one, for dehumanizing a human being (well, pony), better yet, a fellow TEAM MATE. Then after failing to take the leader's advice to look both ways before crossing the runway, rainbow dash ends up in an accident and crashed into a trash can. SO, because of that. everyone on the team suddenly decides that it's their divine right to mock, ridicule and BULLY her by repeatedly calling her "Rainbow Crash", even though they can clearly see that this is emotionally and psychologically damaging her. And this name so happened to be the SAME exact name as the one the little kids used to call Rainbow Dash (RD) when she was little. So when Rainbow Dash told her main group of supportive friends about this ridicule, they act like this action is completely acceptable for those other Wonderbolts to do to her. Even when Flutter Shy recalled the kids who used to call R.D. "Rainbow Crash", she called them "BULLIES", yet failed to reconcile the grown Wonderbolts as such for doing the EXACT SAME THING. The super friends failed to tell RD that it is not okay to let others call her a harmful name like the Wonderbolts were, and bringing light to the realization that they were TOO bullying her like how those kids used to. Way to go, supportive friends.

The other Wonderbolts continue to make RD feel like crap for the rest of the episode, making her feel obligated to prove to them, her "team mates" that she is worthy enough to no longer be called that name, "Crash". And to top it all off, the Wonderbolt leader felt the need to push it further by embroidering a reminder of the "Crash" nickname that they mock her with on her team jacket. Which again, made RD feel even more like crap.

At the end, after Rainbow Dash failed another attempt to try to show her worth to these ponies, they call her "Crash", again. (Like geese, let it go. Call her by her real name for once.) And then the My Little Pony creators passed up the great moral message for viewers about respecting others and being a real friend by say, I don't know, how about NOT hazing and dehumanizing them and being a jerk. Yet, they instead had the Wonderbolt leader tell RD that they actually love her flying skills and for saving Equestria multiple times. And then all of the members revealed that they all have been degraded by someone in the team before when they were new, and have been stuck with their own humiliating unwanted nicknames that constantly reminded them of their own failed flying attempts. And all with smiling faces! And then RD learned that it's okay to be dehumanized by your peers, and hazed for being new to an institutional organization! Just as long as you still say you're part of that grand team! Yay! Friendship is Magic! * * * *

What a load of crap.

I cannot believe that the creators of My Little Pony would create and spread this message to young viewers that it's okay to be bullied, hazed, repeatedly degraded, and treated like complete crap by others, teammates/peers, and especially those you looked up to in this episode. We might as well erase ALL of the anti-bullying and anti-organizational hazing messages, laws, and commercials, and anti-fascism movements that have been fought and struggled for over the countless years.

This episode was created only for children who will soon be raised to be degraded, dehumanized, and whopped in the military one day.

-congratulations