[ SECRET POST #2177 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2177 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Episode morals that make you mad?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm in Donkey's place all the time and I appreciated the moral of that episode. I didn't think it was telling me I wasn't allowed to say no. I thought it was telling the Pinkie Pies of the world that even if you happen to do something nice for them that they appreciate, not everyone wants to be your friend all the time and you need to accept that. (After all, she mostly left him alone after she reunited him with his old gf.) That rang true for the way a lot of my friendships with Pinkie Pie types ended up now.

Re: Episode morals that make you mad?

[(Anonymous)]

But the resolution was such a cop out. Turns out that it was missing an old sweetheart what caused Donkey to want to be left alone, and not because, gasp, he actually really didn't like Pinkie Pie and/or didn't want to be her friend. Because that is nonsense. Everyone must want to be friends with Pinkie Pie! Why wouldn't they?!

What about all the people who really do want to be left alone?

The episode failed because Pinkie won in the end (she befriended Donkey) and she never had to learn the lesson that sometimes her approach to live of befriending everyone doesn't work.

Sure, she is less hyper in her relationship with him at the end, which is good, but the fact that she wouldn't leave him alone and still managed to make a friendship at all is what rubs me the wrong way. Real life doesn't work like that. Sometimes people don't like you, and that's okay, and it's not their obligation to like you.

I mean, I'm glad it resonated with you and that you have a good relationship with the Pinkie Pies in your life, and obviously you're not making things up so this is something that does work out in real life, but I'm upset on the behalf of all the other times where it doesn't work out and that were waved away despite that learning to respect other people's boundaries is a worthwhile lesson for children.