Soft Snow wrote:I liked tonight's viewing. Boast Busters reminded me that a lot of the earlier shows were rather on edge about their moral lessons. While Trixie was aggressive to the hecklers in the crowd, the adults in the audience should have known better that it was just a stage performance meant mostly to entertain the children in the audience. Many real life stage magicians often refer to themselves as "The Great" and then greatly exaggerate their exploits. Since magic is common and Trixie only knew a few spells, she had to liven up her show with fireworks and tall tails. Trixie was a professional and I didn't get the feeling she would stay in Ponyville. She might of stayed there a day or so and then moved on and we would have never heard from her again. If Rarity and Applejack didn't start something.
Now Trixie lost her home and career. If some got you fired from your job and then destroyed your house, it wouldn't be unexpected if you sought revenge.

So the problem with Trixie from where I'm sitting isn't that she's boastful. Her problem is her attitude.
To be clear, Applejack, Rarity and Dash are acting super weird here. People have made the point that Trixie is clearly in the process of putting on a show, and the girls are acting as if they've just seen someone on the street bigging themselves up. Totally true.
However, Trixie makes a total hash of handling things. Take Flim and Flam from S2, for example. Like Trixie, these two are also way into showmanship, but the difference is that Flim and Flam aren't combative or aggressive; their spiel is about playing up their own product rather than playing down that of their competitor. The moment Trixie is challenged by her audience she responds by biting the hand that feeds. Rather than trying to win over the crowd by being playful and friendly, she responds to displays of skill with cheap and nasty
physical attacks. When AJ does a neat rope trick, Trixie hogties her. When Dash does some aerial manoeuvres, she gets physically tossed in off the stage. She acts like an asshole in a way that dwarfs anything that the girls were doing or saying, and she's lucky the crowd didn't rush her for it on the spot.
The girls were wrong (and weird) to heckle her, but Trixie's response is far, far worse and totally, utterly unprofessional. And that's before we get to the fact that she's using local stupid children as PAs.