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>>/4687/ > The lesson itself was solid enough yeah, it goes through the message of empathy, understanding each other´s lives by living them by experience for a short while. The closest episode that shares this plot device is A Royal Problem where both princesses changed their cutie marks and jobs. > from an inuniverse perspective it feels a bit wonky. It's interesting how the friendship school sometimes is acknowledged as a time strain yet in most episodes is a complete non factor in most. > The Mane 6 are traveling and popping up in random places as much as they'd ever have. the time strains and the fact that the mane 6 have had like 2 or 3 jobs at the same time has been executed by raising a few questions and some sort of constant inconsistency for that matter. I wonder how they distribute their time and are able to work for all they want to do. The Mane 6 might not get placed as the most spectacular heroes you will see in a cartoon, yet they go with the anti hero formula to its very extreme sometimes. How do they handle it and pretend that nothing happens between both jobs? Don´t they have personal problems at that? For Fluttershy at least, we have seen that. But... > it feels like a lesson that almost doesn't matter. As we've been told "Cartoon Logic" so it's more of a moderately sized nitpick indeed, that flaw that has been kept since the debut of said school.....for now > Is this the first acknowledgement by word that the animals that Fluttershy takes care of do eat each other? considering that Fluttershy has been absent for long periods, I wouldn´t get surprised by that dynamic (let alone if Fluttershy has told some advised them beforehand), not to mention that they don´t only have a limited space anymore (Fluttershy´s house) but a whole sanctuary for their own business and/or conflicts. > Equestria was seen as a utopia back in the earlier days. it´s still an utopia to some extent, my question about rationality confirms that these established rules are undefined yet special to its universe. > with the presence of monsters and Fluttershy having been seen feeding a bear fish does disprove that all the way back then. the ordinary trophic chain still prevails so yeah. > some will misunderstand (and gripe) that Fluttershy was having the predators on a vegetarian diet but the dialog clearly implies that was only while at her sanctuary. I am implying that she has used the stare in order to intimidate them and obey her rules. Taking them as "rational" creatures, I uppose that they stay there as some sort of contract for doing what they are doing even though it manipulates their own nature. Kind of like domesticated animals when they aren´t all that conventional in the real world. > Did Zecora go too far? considering what has happened in A Health of Information, this kind of looks like a snack.