I appreciate someone taking the time to act like an adult and not a small child.
Indeed, this thread was very much missing a person like that.
Blah blah I’m superior to veryone blah blah…
I’m not even going to dignify most of this with a response as it is irrelevant to the topic and mostly just baseless attacks and undeserved ego boosting.
BGPs are gonna need to pick a different means of getting under my skin. Fighting me on my own turf by trying to out-condescend me? That’s a fight they’re simply not equipped to win.
True enough, you have proven that you are the master of baseless and irrelevant condescension.
Your main point
Trixie doesn’t state it’s a trick she “couldn’t do”; she says it’s a trick she has never been able to do, i.e. she has tried it multiple times before. Ergo, it’s not a lethal trick when failed, since she’s still here after failing it an unknown number of times (at least twice.)
That is not the only way those words can be interpreted, the fact that she says later that she would be a goner if Starlight did her part wrong proves that she has never done it.
As I’ve already said, Fluttershy acts scared of the manticore, a creature she was not afraid of half a decade ago when a wild one actually attacked her for real.
That was a wild manticore, this one looks clearly different and is identified as a pony eating manticore, it’s entirely possible it is either a more dangerous subspecies or was trained to eat ponies.
The manticore in this episode not only patiently waits in his precise place on stage rather than rampage through the audience,
It was chained up dum-dum, it coulden’t do that even if it wanted to.
Even the little girls the show is aimed towards would know better than to think the manticore was actually dangerous, since a cornerstone of the joke relies on him obviously not being it and all – but most bronies have consistently illustrated that they don’t have the sense and reason of a little girl.
Blah blah superiority complex…
As for Trixie’s self-destructive behavior, I can’t argue with that – she’s done little more than chew her own foot off for all three of her episodes. I simply don’t consider her to be suicidal so much as table-flipping, a habit I have rather some personal experience with.
If you perform an action that will kill you if not interrupted, you are suicidal, and once again they imply multiple times during the episode with words like “goner” that it was lethal.
By the time the show started, Trixie would have already advertised that she was going to perform the whatever the heck manticore dive. Attempting the trick solo was her only option since canceling would remove any chance of salvaging her career.
So? Her reputation was already comepletely destroyed, it’s not like saying there was a change of plans would do much more, especially when she no longer has a way to survive the act.
But oh well, denial isn’t just a river in Egypt and I doubt you will respond to anyone else here who also made good points, you seem to have little interest in having an intellectual debate on the meaning of the episode and seem to post on here mostly to just insult others and inflate your own sense of ego, if you want to point out flaws in may argument that’s fine, heck I don’t even care if you insult me since it gives me something to laugh at, but attacking others and accusing me of sockpuppeting or collusion just to try and act like you have more importance than you really do is truly sad.
