Re: Let's Re-Watch Week 12: Simple Ways
Marioland1 wrote:I'll be honest: this is an episode I have never watched to completion. I didn't even make it halfway through! As soon as Trenderhoof fell for Applejack instead of Rarity (who was too busy ignoring his actions to notice), I already knew how the whole thing was going to end and closed the tab in annoyance.
Rarity and Applejack have always been opposites. In fact, the only two things they share are a sister and a tendency to work hard (often to the point of overworking themselves and refusing help). Clashes between them are usually interesting because of these conflicting personalities. This more or less left Trenderhoof as the third wheel to the real action between Rarity and Applejack, and considering how big he seemed to be in this episode, I just couldn't bear to watch all three of them act like naive schoolfillies arguing over a schoolyard crush. He's just in the way here.
I'm perfectly fine with the idea of a temporary life-swap between the two, but this is just too much "Nope!" wrapped up in a 22 minute package and sent off. Couldn't they have just done a dare or something to go through with this instead of throwing a romance angle on it? That would have seemed far less artificial than this thing. Even from just the start, everypony seemed out of character. That bugs me something fierce.
Are you really sure about how it all ends? What I found quite refreshing about this is that at no point did Applejack show any interest in Trenderhoof. They weren't "schoolfillies arguing over a schoolyard crush" so much as Applejack trying to snap Rarity out of some incredibly unreasonable behavior. Besides, Rarity swooning over hot guys isn't new, as we saw with her fantasies over Prince Blueblood way back in S1, so I find it hard to say that's out of character for her.
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