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Putting Out a Fire With a Pair of Matches
Oct. 21st, 2016 11:42 pmLos Pegasus held no charm for Applejack and Fluttershy. They caught the overnight train back to Ponyville after just spending the day among those bright lights and tourist attractions. But they found and fixed the problem the Map chose for them. Applejack came by to tell me how it went this afternoon.
They found a pony using lies and false friendship to take advantage of ponies in his employment. By pitting his employees one against each other, Gladmane kept them from developing their expertise and becoming superstars, in the way that Sapphire Shores is a superstar. Thus they felt compelled to remain as sideshow entertainment for Gladmane's hotel. The weird thing was how Fluttershy and Applejack solved this deception -- two of the employees being deceived were Flim and Flam, and they were encouraged to deceive the deceiver into revealing his means of operation. That healed the friendships of the deceived ponies, but left the hotel under the care of the two scoundrels, Flim and Flam. Applejack wasn't pleased with that outcome, but she was relieved to get away from "that wild vacation spot".
Was there a friendship lesson in this? If a friendly pony says your best friend is saying bad things about you behind your back, don't take their word for it. Go talk to that best friend to make things right once again.
They found a pony using lies and false friendship to take advantage of ponies in his employment. By pitting his employees one against each other, Gladmane kept them from developing their expertise and becoming superstars, in the way that Sapphire Shores is a superstar. Thus they felt compelled to remain as sideshow entertainment for Gladmane's hotel. The weird thing was how Fluttershy and Applejack solved this deception -- two of the employees being deceived were Flim and Flam, and they were encouraged to deceive the deceiver into revealing his means of operation. That healed the friendships of the deceived ponies, but left the hotel under the care of the two scoundrels, Flim and Flam. Applejack wasn't pleased with that outcome, but she was relieved to get away from "that wild vacation spot".
Was there a friendship lesson in this? If a friendly pony says your best friend is saying bad things about you behind your back, don't take their word for it. Go talk to that best friend to make things right once again.
