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Brass Beau

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Two weird things I noticed about Bats!
 
  1. Fluttershy mentioned how the bats were supposed to be good for the overall ecosystem of the farm yet nothing comes of that. Seemed like an obvious Green Aesop but nope.  
  2. Their solution was one Twilight tried with the parasprites and nopony pointed that out. And it mostly worked this time.
     
    I really don’t know what the end game was because the lesson of the episode could have been done without either of those “things” coming about.
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That especially seems to be the mandate when pairing her with Applejack. Bats is probably the worst example, though. Just because Fluttershy was victimized party (through ZERO fault of Applejack’s, I might add, yet she was the ONLY one who suffered for it), doesn’t mean that her suggested solution was viable or correct.
 
The bats needed to fuck off. They most certainly didn’t deserve AJ making sacrifices to let them them stay.
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I saw it more as a native wildlife > corporate profit type thing which I am totally 100% on board with without exception. Perhaps exaggerated in the episode though.
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But the episode isn’t dealing with corporate profit. This is literally the Apple Family’s livelihood that’s at stake. The bats are hindering their ability to survive, not their ability to line their pockets.
 
The bats needed to go by any means necessary, and the only exception to be made is if they were an endangered species.
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That’s part of the problem because the central conflict is based around the Apple family’s orchard but there isn’t a clear discussion on how damaging it will be and whether Applejack is trying to get rid of them humanely. Fluttershy seems concerned that Applejack is planning to kill them off (how true that is being an entirely different topic). And once the bats were gone we had an entirely new problem unrelated to them. It’s… weird to try and describe.
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But the episode isn’t dealing with corporate profit. This is literally the Apple Family’s livelihood that’s at stake. The bats are hindering their ability to survive, not their ability to line their pockets.
The bats needed to go by any means necessary, and the only exception to be made is if they were an endangered species.
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Man, To change a changeling is a really annoying episode. And Daring Done is another Daring Do episode where some ponies who that Daring Do exists and other ponies think she’s a fictional character. I’ve never found the idea that interesting, appealing or fun.
 
It’s a pity, because, at this point, Campfire Tales is my favourite episode of the season 7, with likeable characters and interesting tales.
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I really liked Daring Done. It’s my favorite of the Daring Do episodes.
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I liked Daring Do when she was imagined by Rainbow Dash when she was reading the adventure books back in season 2. But in season 4 the writers established that Daring Do is the same writer of her adventures. The author is Daring Do.
 
I wouldn’t mind that if it wasn’t for the fact that everypony believe that she was fictional, the main antagonists say that she exists and the main characters know her secret identity. That’s too many dots you have to connect in order to make a character or concept interesting. However, I find that incredibly inconsistent.
 
But at least Daring Done wasn’t To change a changeling.
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But that’s… exactly how species become endangered, when every landowner in a thousand miles decides to exterminate all the wildlife on the land they stole from the wilderness because “oh no! My livelihood!” thus a species becomes endangered via habitat loss.
 
Guess I saw it differently than everyone else.
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It’s a weird episode. The implications from Twilight’s spell, either with what the bats eat now or the fact that “desire” has physiological effects leave a lot of questions.
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All the evidence says they’re migratory, and the hell says they own the land they actively ravage? What about everything else that lives on that land, like the much less destructive bat species?
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Gotta eat on migration too. Probably ought to set aside a set area for wildlife, which is exactly what was done at the end of the episode iirc, so it all worked out.
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