I mostly agree. One of the things about Derpy, when I was linking people who were not fandom-acquainted or knew anything about the show AT ALL, were immediately caught by Derpy's voice. It was the thing to make them immediately go 'yeah, that's probably why everyone is up in arms'. Her voice is my biggest problem with Derpy, because it alone is the immediate switch that squicks me out and cues me in that she's a mentally disabled coded character.
Rainbow Dash is known for berating everypony that doesn't live up to her expectations; Fluttershy, Tank, just her getting mad in general when things aren't going her way. In a sad sense, that makes her the best character for this scene. If it were any of the other ponies getting frazzled at these actions like 'oh no, please calm down' from Fluttershy or such would make Derpy look even worse because she can't listen to a calmer character.
So one who can't handle dealing with a pony who is meant* to be funny and ditzy in a screwup way was their best way to get The Laffs out of this scene. Otherwise imagining how it could've gone worse is seriously making me go uuuugh. *not successfully executed.
A different VA (or the VA using a different tone) and changing the lines slightly would have made her at least a step in a different direction if they didn't want to code her the way she ended up turning out.
Just imagine the latter in Rainbow's voice as an example:
"I just dunno what went wrong!" vs. a sheepish "Heh, Iiii dunno what went wrong."
"Nice work Rainbow Dash!" before crashing into the pillar vs "Nice work, Rainbow Dash!" then showing some reaction of knocking into the pillar.
Just the simplest changes in the execution would make her the bubbly headed character Hasbro most likely intended as opposed to making the image immediately jump to someone's head about what this character possibly is, regardless of whether they're familiar with the show or not.
And regarding the top of the essay: To poke a can of worms and run as far away from it as possible: Zecora also removed the idea that ponies are a-racial to all viewers. At first they were just pink, purple, orange, and blue, but if you introduce and immediately recognizably black character, that's out the window. And that's sad.
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I mostly agree. One of the things about Derpy, when I was linking people who were not fandom-acquainted or knew anything about the show AT ALL, were immediately caught by Derpy's voice. It was the thing to make them immediately go 'yeah, that's probably why everyone is up in arms'. Her voice is my biggest problem with Derpy, because it alone is the immediate switch that squicks me out and cues me in that she's a mentally disabled coded character.
Rainbow Dash is known for berating everypony that doesn't live up to her expectations; Fluttershy, Tank, just her getting mad in general when things aren't going her way. In a sad sense, that makes her the best character for this scene. If it were any of the other ponies getting frazzled at these actions like 'oh no, please calm down' from Fluttershy or such would make Derpy look even worse because she can't listen to a calmer character.
So one who can't handle dealing with a pony who is meant* to be funny and ditzy in a screwup way was their best way to get The Laffs out of this scene. Otherwise imagining how it could've gone worse is seriously making me go uuuugh.
*not successfully executed.
A different VA (or the VA using a different tone) and changing the lines slightly would have made her at least a step in a different direction if they didn't want to code her the way she ended up turning out.
Just imagine the latter in Rainbow's voice as an example:
"I just dunno what went wrong!" vs. a sheepish "Heh, Iiii dunno what went wrong."
"Nice work Rainbow Dash!" before crashing into the pillar vs "Nice work, Rainbow Dash!" then showing some reaction of knocking into the pillar.
Just the simplest changes in the execution would make her the bubbly headed character Hasbro most likely intended as opposed to making the image immediately jump to someone's head about what this character possibly is, regardless of whether they're familiar with the show or not.
And regarding the top of the essay:
To poke a can of worms and run as far away from it as possible: Zecora also removed the idea that ponies are a-racial to all viewers. At first they were just pink, purple, orange, and blue, but if you introduce and immediately recognizably black character, that's out the window. And that's sad.