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Pinkie: Starlight! Don’t sell Trixie’s wagon!
 
Trixie: Why do YOU of all ponies want to—
 
Pinkie: It’s worth twice as much! And don’t forget to separately sell everything inside it too!
tehwatever
Shimmering Smile - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of Equestria Girls!
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Twinkling Balloon - Took part in the 2021 community collab.
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Ten years of changes - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of MLP:FiM!
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2020) - Took part in the 2020 Community Collab
Wallet After Summer Sale -
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2019) - Celebrated Derpibooru's seventh year anniversary with friends.

@Stotter  
the issue is more about the second panel, rather than the first. OP implies that Starlight never got better as a character and she never worked on her issues.  
Rather than disagreeing with OP, I would rather point out that the MANE 6 never really ironed out their kinks either, and that the ONE major character that have pretty much worked out 99% of their issue so would be Sunset Shimmer. And that’s kind of why Sunset is super popular, apparently.
 
I’m just curious. By which standard is OP comparing Starlight to? Because by Mane 6’s standard, Starlight’s doing really well.
Stotter
Wallet After Summer Sale -

Besides sentimental value, her wagon doubled as her stage. She can’t afford to rent out stages if a single falafel breaks her food budget. That’s not even taking into account increased property taxes.
tehwatever
Shimmering Smile - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of Equestria Girls!
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).
Non-Fungible Trixie -
Twinkling Balloon - Took part in the 2021 community collab.
Artist -
Ten years of changes - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of MLP:FiM!
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2020) - Took part in the 2020 Community Collab
Wallet After Summer Sale -
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2019) - Celebrated Derpibooru's seventh year anniversary with friends.

Fun fact: each of the mane6 has that one flaw that they don’t work on.  
I mean, if the mane6 have completely worked on their flaws the show would end.
 
Starlight being short-sighted is like Fluttershy being shy to a fault, Pinkie being hyperactive, Rainbow being competitive, Applejack being stubborn, Rarity being vain, and Twilight being a know-it-all.
 
If anything Starlight’s actually overcome her biggest issue: namely over-reliance on Magic.
 
Look, Starlight managed to not magic her way out of…literally everything in Season 8. The one time she fired magic was at Discord. One time. That was it.
 
So yeah. She’s worked on her flaws as much as the mane6 has worked on theirs.
 
Want to know who has worked on ALL of her flaws and now writers need to come up with flaws to make her seem less perfect?
 
SUNSET. SHIMMER
MegaAnimationFan
Elements of Harmony - Had an OC in the 2022 Community Collab
Twinkling Balloon - Took part in the 2021 community collab.
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2020) - Took part in the 2020 Community Collab
Artist -

@greaterlimits  
That also could’ve been avoided had Trixie just discussed the budget beforehand.
 
@sTs  
Very true. That would’ve helped. And the comfyness of the wagon could’ve been remedied with either traveling light, or Starlight could’ve just did what Merlin did in Sword in the Stone and shrunk everything and put it in a box or something. She could’ve also put it outside for the night and put a protection spell on it (of all times to use magic to solve a problem this is one of them). And Trixie could’ve put what she didn’t need for the trip in Starlight’s room. She wouldn’t mind, she’s not using it.
 
There was like a million ways around each bump in the road ()no pun intended) and neither of them took it
greaterlimits
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@MegaAnimationFan  
Not to mention the fact everyone is ignoring the bone headed move of Trixie making her and glimmer stand in a huge line for food because it was her favorite brand thus causing them to miss the last hotel spots.
MegaAnimationFan
Elements of Harmony - Had an OC in the 2022 Community Collab
Twinkling Balloon - Took part in the 2021 community collab.
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2020) - Took part in the 2020 Community Collab
Artist -

@Background Pony #EE9E  
Ugh, you sound just like DWK. Which normally wouldn’t be a bad thing, but here it is. Here’s my rebuttal:
 
  • True Starlight knew it was cramped, but that’s why she planned to get a room. And TRIXIE knew that it was a long trip that her wagon might not survive but did it anyway because she has a big fanbase there and she dragged Starlight with her despite being stupidly unprepared. That stupid ego of hers, now someone else has to pay the price for it with her
     
    -The money thing was Trixie’s fault. She should’ve TOLD Starlight about the budget thing BEFORE they even left. But she didn’t. Hell, that alone would’ve prevented literally everything that went wrong from happening.
     
    -Yeah Starlight is the first to insult Trixie, but Trixie continues to bitch about her snoring like she got zero sleep from it but she GAGGED Starlight and kept Starlight up with her talking in her sleep. She got more sleep than Starlight yet she’s acting like she didn’t.
     
    -Again, lack of sleep. She wasn’t doing it on purpose
     
    -Are you daft? did you even watch the episode? She literally said she did that so they both enjoy, there’s the lack of sleep, and trading it wasn’t even her idea. She didn’t even know the dude wanted to trade it. He obviously convinced the sleep deprived and stressed Starlight to do it behind Trixie’s back even though she said no an why she didn’t want to, and even refused to trade it back for some reason (seriously that’s pretty shady. Why aren’t people seeing that)
     
    One of your favorite characters? That’d be funny is it wasn’t a blatant lie. If she truly was, than why are you pinning everything wrong that happened on her despite the fact that not only has she never done this before, but was the only one making an effort to make the trip as comfortable as possible? I’m not saying she wasn’t wrong, but she’s not to blame for the trip being ruined and there was a reason for everything she was doing. And Trixe sure as hell ain’t the victim here. Like I’ve said this whole thing is her fault to begin with. Had she have not gone right then and there, or, oh I don’t know, PREPARED better none of this would have happened
     
     
    But despite my long, tiring rebuttal, you still disagree don’t you?
Background Pony #4AC8
@MegaAnimationFan  
I mean that’s not exactly true. Starlight is one of my favorite characters in the show, but she was in the wrong a lot in this episode. Several reviewers have touched on this already, but I’ll sum up a few things with the following points:
 
  • Starlight chose to go with Trixie, even after she knew that the wagon they were going in was cramped and uncomfortable
     
  • The first thing that Glimmer does when they arrive is spend a significant amount of money on something that she never even asked Trixie about, and it leaves them with very little money
     
  • Starlight is the first one to start insulting Trixie in some capacity during her show
     
  • She proceeds to eat almost all of the food before Trixie wakes up
     
  • Trades off what is essentially Trixie’s home without a second thought because she was mad
     
    So really Trixie did nothing wrong in this episode. She had every reason to get angry at Starlight. Regardless of the circumstances, Starlight can’t be angry at Trixie when she already knew what she was getting into and was responsible for their money problems.
MegaAnimationFan
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Twinkling Balloon - Took part in the 2021 community collab.
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Well Trixie was kind of acting kind of unreasonable, she never said anything about the “value” of that wagon, straight up confirmed that she holds more value to that stupid thing than Starlight and she failed miserably as a traveler. In fact, her incompetence is the main reason everything went downhill fast
 
I know this is a meme and a Simpsons reference, but this is obviously done to vent out some frustration on Starlight not just in this episode but in general.
Vivace
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My Little Pony - 1992 Edition
Wallet After Summer Sale -
Artist -

“ShimSham my GlimGlams”
Glimmer missed the reason for Trixie’s frustration. Staying in Hoo’far’s wagon with Trixie wouldn’t have solved her loud snoring or Trixie’s sleep-talking.