S06E07: Newbie Dash

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S06E07: Newbie Dash

Postby Wayoshi (?) » Wed May 04, 2016 3:04 pm

After Rainbow Dash achieves her dream of becoming a Wonderbolt, she makes a disastrous first impression and gets saddled with a mortifying nickname.


This thread is for discussion of the episode. This episode airs at 11:30 AM Eastern / 8:30 AM Pacific on Saturday, May 7!

Lower quality posting is OK when the episode is airing and immediate reaction after it on the day of airing. This thread will go global during that day, so let's make this the catch-all thread for this episode!

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Writer: Dave Rapp (debut)
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Wed May 04, 2016 3:07 pm

Back when I first started watching the show four years ago, I don't think I ever imagined that Rainbow Dash would actually make it in with the Wonderbolts. Now she's finally doing it. :awesomedash:
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Wed May 04, 2016 3:10 pm

Uh-oh, they found out she likes to read. :saddash:
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Postby Rarebear (?) » Wed May 04, 2016 3:12 pm

Really looking forward to this one. Rainbow is finally achieving her dream after 5 season of working hard towards it. :awesomedash:

I hope this episode isn't too hard on her. The Wonderbolts have messed around with her enough.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Wed May 04, 2016 3:14 pm

What's the over/under on it being a really stupidly childish nickname? Like, even more lame than Rainbow Crash.

Also I'm trying to hide how verklempt I am about her actually making it.

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Your MRI results have shown total infection to now be approximately one fifth of the full mass of the tissue.

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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Wed May 04, 2016 3:23 pm

Aramek wrote:What's the over/under on it being a really stupidly childish nickname? Like, even more lame than Rainbow Crash.

I don't see how the nickname isn't the title of the episode
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Wed May 04, 2016 3:36 pm

Aramek wrote:What's the over/under on it being a really stupidly childish nickname? Like, even more lame than Rainbow Crash.

Maybe it is Rainbow Crash. Maybe it's flight camp all over again. Maybe Dash learns that her idols and teammates are just grown-up childhood bullies, and nothing ever really changes.

Would that be too dark? :flutterdear:
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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Wed May 04, 2016 4:22 pm

In the back of my head I imagine the reason it took them this long to let her into the Wonderbolts is because she is so talented that she would make the rest of them look back so they made all these restrictions to discourage her or even guilt her into thinking she wasn't good enough to join them. Imagine how they must of felt after they got embarrassed in the Sonic Rainboom episode. They never lived that down.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Wed May 04, 2016 5:04 pm

I figured it was either a limited number of spots on the main roster or just plain ol' bureaucracy being slow. I imagine we'll get at least a bit of an explanation in this episode.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Wed May 04, 2016 5:24 pm

The Wonderbolts and Dash go down to the Central Bureaucracy, and limbo themselves into opening up the roster.
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Your MRI results have shown total infection to now be approximately one fifth of the full mass of the tissue.

"So you're saying..."

Your brain is about 20% tumor.
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Postby Angel Beat (?) » Wed May 04, 2016 5:48 pm

She'll probably get over it, or she earns a new nickname. :v:
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Wed May 04, 2016 11:32 pm

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Postby Octavia (?) » Thu May 05, 2016 1:45 am

I find that episodes with the Wonderbolts are usually better when they're either an underlying theme of the episode or they act as side characters, rather than the main focus. Testing 1-2-3, Best Night Ever, and Rarity Investigates were great, but I thought Wonderbolts Academy and Rainbow Falls fell a little short. I'm hoping this episode doesn't also fall a bit short based on previous times the Wonderbolts were the main focus.

But yay Dash for finally becoming a Wonderbolt. :awesomedash:
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Thu May 05, 2016 1:51 am

:gotcha: Kind of hope the Wonderbolts are still jerks.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Thu May 05, 2016 2:22 am

Octavia wrote:But yay Dash for finally becoming a Wonderbolt. :awesomedash:

OH NO! GETTING VERKLEMPT AGAIN!

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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Thu May 05, 2016 10:27 am

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Postby Wylie (?) » Thu May 05, 2016 12:00 pm

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Rainbow "Egghead" Dash would get under her skin pretty bad too, would like to see that.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Thu May 05, 2016 7:58 pm

Or, for those who prefer it on YouTube:


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Why does she have a cloud in her abdomen?
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Thu May 05, 2016 8:12 pm

Sorry, show, we've seen too much to accept that ponies have bones all of a sudden. :rainbert:
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Postby Aramek (?) » Thu May 05, 2016 8:42 pm

Fizzbuzz wrote:Why does she have a cloud in her abdomen?

That's the Cloudequus Organ. It allows Pegasus to interact with the weather. :spike101:

Also Fluttershy hiding under her wings was so God damned cute.
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Thu May 05, 2016 8:57 pm

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Postby The Doctor (?) » Thu May 05, 2016 9:30 pm

:bwuh: Boy I sure am a klutz performing with you guys. Even though I've done it before. And performed in front a crowd before....

:awkward: Pretty much nothing has changed but I'm going to all of a sudden be a klutz for an episode.

Mechanical Ape wrote:Sorry, show, we've seen too much to accept that ponies have bones all of a sudden. :rainbert:


:gotcha: Someone needs to read this month's Friends Forever comic.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Thu May 05, 2016 9:46 pm

The Doctor wrote::bwuh: Boy I sure am a klutz performing with you guys. Even though I've done it before. And performed in front a crowd before....

:awkward: Pretty much nothing has changed but I'm going to all of a sudden be a klutz for an episode.

It's not as she doesn't make mistakes. Look at Sonic Rainboom, for instance, and how she had so much trouble there before managing to perform the titular feat at the end. A reasonable accident might've happened here and we just haven't seen it in this one clip.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Thu May 05, 2016 9:52 pm

I think the setup to this is gonna be like one single misstep that'll cause her to ricochet chain reaction. Like a tiny mistake that causes her low mass Pegasus missile to pinball around.

Then the resolution will be every veteran Wonderbolt telling a similar story of a catastrophic chain reaction that happened to them.
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Thu May 05, 2016 11:07 pm

It's really going to be Rainbow Crash again? :-/

And out of context, it looks like she just sucks suddenly for plot reasons... I'll wait for judgment on that.



OK... minimal IMDB info too.
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Postby Wylie (?) » Thu May 05, 2016 11:12 pm

Rainbow Dash slamming into scenery has been a thing since Season 1, I'm not sure why we'd be surprised it pops up again.
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Thu May 05, 2016 11:32 pm

Wayoshi wrote:It's really going to be Rainbow Crash again? :-/

Honestly, I expect the nickname is "Newbie Dash", same as the title.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Thu May 05, 2016 11:35 pm

Scootaloo not with her friends, but on the sidelines....

:crack: Maybe I'll get to check off "Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo Episode" on the Bingo card.
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Fri May 06, 2016 1:49 am

Aramek wrote:Also Fluttershy hiding under her wings was so God damned cute.

Almost as cute as Rarity covering Sweetie Belle's eyes. :gonkity:


e: Fluts looks like she's being eaten by a yellow Venus' flytrap.
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Fri May 06, 2016 2:36 am

The hanging-upside-down-next-to-Scootaloo bit has got to be an intentional callback to that thing where she's hovering upside-down next to Twilight in Dragonshy, which in turn was from one of the original pitch bible sketches of prankster Rainbow Dash :excite:
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Fri May 06, 2016 6:58 pm

Wayoshi wrote:And out of context, it looks like she just sucks suddenly for plot reasons... I'll wait for judgment on that.

Calling it now: it's the work of saboteurs from the future. Come Season 11 you'll see that I'm right.
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Postby Highbrow Dash (?) » Sat May 07, 2016 12:04 am

Fizzbuzz wrote:I figured it was either a limited number of spots on the main roster or just plain ol' bureaucracy being slow. I imagine we'll get at least a bit of an explanation in this episode.


RIP Spitfire, she was so young...
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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Sat May 07, 2016 3:31 am

Fizzbuzz wrote:I figured it was either a limited number of spots on the main roster or just plain ol' bureaucracy being slow. I imagine we'll get at least a bit of an explanation in this episode.

I can't imagine why they would have such an arbitrary limitation on their elite flying squad. Three Wonderbolts hardly seems enough to properly cover all of Equestria in an event of an emergency. I remember there was this cartoon on Fox where the mayor asked the police chief why there was so much crime in the city and he replied because they only have three cops to cover a city of five million people. This feels strangely like that situation.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sat May 07, 2016 3:35 am

Well, from a continuity point of view, S1 Dash wasn't really a good team player. She has the skills for the Wonderbolts, but she didn't have the discipline. In the end she needed to go through the same program every other member did.
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Postby Factory Factory (?) » Sat May 07, 2016 3:10 pm

Fizzbuzz wrote:Image
Why does she have a cloud in her abdomen?


That's where the rainbows are made.

Don't ask how they get to the outside.
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Sat May 07, 2016 3:33 pm

RD's smile in the prologue :D
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Postby Bremen (?) » Sat May 07, 2016 3:33 pm

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