Stop the Blueblood Hate

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I honestly like Blueblood, but because of a rather meta reason. Did anyone honestly think Rarity was going to end up marrying him? That would have completely screwed the status quo of the show beyond recognition (and we all know they didn’t start doing that until season 3). The moment she started blabbering about this guy, all the way back in the ticket episode, I knew “she gonna get her gold digger flank dumped.” And what happened? She got dumped in the a remarkably funny manner. So I respect Blueblood as a character. His sole purpose for existing was to dump Rarity like she had syphilis, and he succeeded with flying colors.
 
I also like how his cutie mark implies some hidden talents.
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And what gets me is that I am okay with them disliking him for not having enough character, But to say that hes more evil than Chrysalis or Sombra is idiotic. Hes doesn’t even deserve to be punished
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@SeraphimDawn  
If thats so then why don’t they do the stuff they see there gonna do to blueblood to the pretty boy douches in real life? Some of those douches actually are violent to their girls but nobody even dares to say a thing.
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@SeraphimDawn  
Heh, what internet are you on? Gaston’s fanbase is likely bigger than Belle’s and Beast’s combined (though half of that is probably just people who are sick and tired of Disney in general, and would prefer watching Gaston be Gaston for a whole movie.)  
You should play The Bard’s Tale Hack&Slash remake sometime, the new Bard is basically Irish Gaston in every possible way except scoring with the ladies. (They’d rather kick him in the nuts and steal all his money.) All his convo choices are basically Asshole, Assholier, and Assholest.
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@Whatevs  
I am kidding about Rarity being a gold digger, but the show seemed clear that she had brought the situation upon herself, at least half way. Her dream revolves around marrying a person she’s never met and has no inkling of knowledge about regarding their personality, save some vague stereotypes about royalty, which seems weird in the context of the FiM universe, considering the only royal who actually dose things to deserve such a rep would be Princess Celestia.
 
I for one am glad the writing crew had the social decency to crush her farcical fantasy beneath the cold iron boot of reality. A lot of that episode didn’t make a ton of sense, but this part I liked.
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What I find interesting about the Gala episode is how much the Blueblood dynamic changed from the last time I saw the episode.
 
So let’s go through the list of what happens so we are all on the same page.  
  1. Rarity seeks him out, but holds back so he doesn’t think less of her  
  2. He approaches Rarity. The first subversion occurs when he gifts himself with the rose she expected.  
  3. Later Rarity is dismayed again (in a montage with everyone else) but vows (again, with everyone else) to not let a few things get in the way.  
  4. Later she remarks that she must simply give him a chance and his princely side will come out. This is immediately subverted when he stops he so that she can use her dress thing to soak up a spill for his benefit.  
  5. This pattern keeps occurring. He expects her to open the door for him, he expects her to pay for him etc etc  
    All of this is done with barely an entire sentence said by him
     
  6. And then he uses her as a shield and she goes off on him. Which is what she had wanted to do for a fair length of the night if her body language is any metric.  
    And all he does is react to this.
     
    He shows very little character, and when he does it’s often just a reaction to Rarity.  
    So he has little character.
     
    So co paring him to Gaston or other Disney villains is silly wife they have entire musical numbers about themselves.
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@Trickquestion  
Yes, Rarity did bring it on herself. I would agree with that.
 
It is highly characteristic of her to assume that someone in the nobility must be noble in temperament.  
It’s only shown in the Fluttershy micro that she has discarded that notion.
 
And I’m on the fence about whether her expectations were reasonable. On the one hand I didn’t think she asked for much, but on the other it is some random guy.
 
And it is worth noting that most people tend to dislike Blueblood for the wrong reasons.  
He isn’t a jerk because he didn’t hold doors open for her. He’s a jerk because he didn’t even care or try to pretend for appearance’s sake.  
He obviously regarded her as beneath him, which is rather rude.
 
People view the relationship through gender googles when it’s really classism.
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@Whatevs  
Rarity was sort of the one who had too high expectations for what she was going to get. When you set your expectations too high, you get disappointed more easily.
 
Like I said before, the reason why he was such a jerk to rarity wasn’t because he was selfish or anything. I think it was because BB was already engaged with somepony else. And he had to find a way to deter rarity while remaining cool. He didn’t want to break a lady’s heart either by admitting he was engaged, so he decided it was better to piss her of instead.  
BTW. I don’t think he is a Prince, but more of somepony who is related to royalty.
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@SeraphimDawn  
Then why did he approach Rarity initially? Sounds passive aggressive to me.  
My theory is that Blueblood is used to getting mare vag without trying because of his title.  
So he thought he could have another easy lay.
 
And after pondering it, I’ve decided that Rarity’s expectations weren’t that high.  
What he wanted were basically the bare minimum of etiquette and I would assume that she would know what to expect concerning etiquette.
 
And she was concerned with impressing him an thought he would be amazing so she obviously thought highly of him and wanted to do her part for the relationship to work.
 
So no, he’s just a dick. And there’s nothing wrong with that really.
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@SeraphimDawn  
yanno, that’s a good point. It doesn’t seem that much of a stretch to imagine they repelled each other because they both had the same preconceptions about how royal courting worked, only reversed in each.
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@SeraphimDawn  
Saying that Rarity was trying to control him is a little silly. She held him in high esteem before meeting him and was concerned with impressing him initially.
 
It seems more likely that she was put off by his behavior.
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@Trickquestion  
It is probably better that way too. Now we have prince/princess who may or may not rule over a kingdom and nothing else between them and mayor. If Blueblood had been called a duke, it may had imply a county and duchy land system.
 
As for the subject, Blueblood had a terrible attitude, I don’t close the door to redeem him but he was terrible. He wasn’t that bad on every occasion perceived by rarity like when he sit on his own cushion instead of giving her, but when he put her clothes in the water spill, it was really the point that made it clear. When rarity was joyed by thinking he would do it for her, she was asking for much, but at her defense he talked in a way that lead her to think so. If he was really neutral the best thing to do at this moment would have been to just walk around.
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@boz  
Blueblood wanted to be courted because hes royalty, Rarity wanted to be courted because shes a lady. its the same thing
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