DoctorWTF
At the end, her parents outright admitted that they valued their careers over their duties as parents. Even if what they do is as important to Equestrian science as they say, there’s no reason they couldn’t have had Scootaloo actually live with her aunts instead of them alternating foal-sitting duties with whatever local adults aren’t busy. As you say, portraying that as a perfectly healthy family is kind of messed up.
@Latecomer
Pound Cake’s family tree is mostly earth ponies, but he doesn’t have any trouble. Though the way her wing condition was presented implied that she had never seen a doctor about it (at least as of “Flight to the Finish”), which does not reflect well on her biological family.
Plus Scootaloo’s aunts were introduced in the comic years before “The Last Crusade”.
Also, the designs of Scootaloo’s parents are very generic, which is kinda odd considering how much I love Scootaloo. They look like a ponified fanart of Uncharted or something.Because they’re supposed be based of Steve Irwin and Jane Goodall.The Last Crusade was an episode that really soured on me the more I thought about it. Like, her parents are genuinely horrible parents and the fact that the show tries to not only ignore that bur act like they’re the greatest ponies ever(especially after basing them on real life heroes, one of which usually made time to be with his family) is pretty shitty. There’s also the fact that the episode ignores what was previously established in Parental Glidance where Scootaloo outright says that no one has ever been around for her, yet this episode comes in and they’re one big loving family. I was always against the “Scootaloo is an orphan” but this episode somehow made me wish that was canon insteadAlso her aunts and her living situation. Like, can we talk how miserable of an experience that must have been? Did they really need to make an explanation for that? They really should have just “Shining Armor’d” them and just have them be taking care of her the whole time
At the end, her parents outright admitted that they valued their careers over their duties as parents. Even if what they do is as important to Equestrian science as they say, there’s no reason they couldn’t have had Scootaloo actually live with her aunts instead of them alternating foal-sitting duties with whatever local adults aren’t busy. As you say, portraying that as a perfectly healthy family is kind of messed up.
@Latecomer
@Ring Team
It could be presumed she had some kind of family or guardians — the odd part is how little it turned out she has.One part I don’t like is them making her a hybrid birth - I usually like mixed families (like in Common Ground), but here it feels like a subtle “explanation” for her flight problems, which is not a geat implication.
Pound Cake’s family tree is mostly earth ponies, but he doesn’t have any trouble. Though the way her wing condition was presented implied that she had never seen a doctor about it (at least as of “Flight to the Finish”), which does not reflect well on her biological family.
Plus Scootaloo’s aunts were introduced in the comic years before “The Last Crusade”.