An episode a day

[Gentian]

S7E11 Not Asking for Trouble

I enjoyed this one, and I thought it was a great Pinkie Pie episode, and even better than the previous Yak one back in S5. Which funnily enough feels like it was just not too long ago considering the first time I saw it. I thought the lesson was strong about giving help, and fit very well with who Pinkie is. Honestly I think this is another one to show how strong this season is, and I think it'll turn out very well when it's all done. I feel like this is a good example of how episodes where characters go other places should go, as opposed to the map layout that I've brought up before. This felt so much more natural and less forced. I'd like to see much more episodes like this, maybe more individual "map" or "travel" episodes so to say, because I think this one and the previous one worked really well.

While I agree this one was a good episode, and is a fine example of what the map ones could have been, I have to strongly disagree about the message. When I see this episode I see a bunch of idiots taking advantage of their willing and eager benefactors. I think it gives the wrong idea of what kind of behavior is acceptable to tolerate.

Why can't the yaks use the pony's names? Why does the prince of yaks keep referring to Pinkie as "Pink Pony," while everyone else uses his full name and title? Why, when he has shown he doesn't care for the feelings or customs of the ponies, are the ponies expected to adapt to his way of doing things? Why, after so joyously declaring Pinkie an honorary yak, did he do a complete 180 the moment he got his feelings hurt, and Pinkie actually cares, instead of telling him to stuff it?

Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but I see this episode as exemplifying much of what is wrong with the modern west: being too considerate to those who not only have no interest in returning our kindness, but seek to actively destroy our cultures.

In the first episode, the yaks should have been kicked back to their shithole the moment they started smashing and destroying. That's how they act when they are guests in a foreign land, on an official diplomatic mission, and the ponies are portrayed as the ones who are required to change their ways to suit their hostile, insane guests whims within their own borders? No. It follows too closely things happening on Earth for me to overlook it.

What are they going to do, declare war? Hah! Lets see how much they want to fight when Princess Luna keeps their leadership from sleeping a single, solitary moment with nightmares. Let's see how badly they want to fight when Celybeans wont let the sun shine or set on them. Lets see how they do when pegasus ponies keep rain out of their lands, or completely flood them, and that's just a few of the strategic options available without even getting to the fighting yet. I wonder what no-magic yaks would do in response to flocks of pegai raining baskets of rocks or jars filled with burning pitch on their heads from 1000 feet up. it's not like they have anything to shoot that high with, and even if they do, the pegai just go higher.

Rather like the modern western militaries versus certain other countries filled with backwards, shit-flinging savages.

They only have a say because the ponies are too nice to put them in their place and remind them they only exist because the ponies aren't the violent barbarians the yaks themselves are, and I HATE to see the yaks not only treating them this way, but the story presenting the ponies as the ones who need to change to accommodate them.

End rant.