Yea it's kinda strange how the only one who knew about all this happening was Daring do. I mean shes publishing it in books! By now someone should of made the connection
It's been half a week since the episode came out and only now i'm starting to wonder why the hell there's a south-american jungle with a single mayan ruin in Equestria. Kind of ruins the adventurous feeling of these books, doesn't it? When you know her house is only like half a mile away from all that. In fact, in the first book Rainbow Dash ever read, Daring Do crashed into the jungle and broke her wing, and all this time she was only a walking distance from her home...
Probably for the same reason there are deserts to the south and arctic climates to the north, which is to say, for environmental variety. It's a fairly good bet that all the events that'll happen in the show are going to be bound to Equestria, rather than some far-off land...which I suppose is good for people like me who want to insert our own original landmasses and cultures into the FiM world, but I digress.
Meh, I'd hate it if the entirety of Equestria just turns out to be like Super Mario World.... or Hyrule... Or Pokémon regions... or basically any map ever designed by Nintendo...
A land of such radical diversity would definitely seem odd if you think about it realistically, but then again, we're talking about a world where the sun and moon are moved by princesses and where pegasi are basically in control of the climates. If there's one good thing to be said about my "original" land of Foalsheim, it's that the climate is fairly uniform...i.e., it's basically their Antarctica.
Wait, are you saying that it's weird for there to be snow and deserts in the same land? You realize in just California alone we have a desert in the southern part and forests and snow to the north. I think it's reasonable in Equestria for all of this difference ecosystems to be there if Equestria is big enough.
As much as this may sound like I'm splitting hairs, the climates of CA's seasonally snowy areas aren't really comparable to polar climates; it's a year-round thing in the (Ant)Arctic, not to mention temps are much lower than those of your average "snow day" in more civilized areas. Add to that the fact that polar regions never see the Sun during the winter months, and you've got one hell of an uninhabitable region. Uninhabitable for humans, anyway. Point is, realistically Equestria would have to span about the area of North and South America combined for it to have an Arctic region, hot deserts, and a tropical rainforest somewhere in the mix. Heck, maybe Equestria really is that huge, but I certainly don't know for sure. All's I know is, pegasi are most likely what keeps the weather temperate in the more populated regions.
Trying to apply logic and physics to a cartoon will just give you a headache. Anyway, it was an ok episode. There were some issues that bugged me too much to really enjoy it though. ~When they were all watching Daring Do and the thugs fight over the ring, I kept thinking, "the six of you are just standing there... you could, you know...help or something." ~When Twilight kept saying "no, we shouldn't help her, she said she works alone." Really? After all the lessons on friendship you've learned? And besides, you're a princess now Twilight, aren't you like morally bound to help? ~At the end when they were fighting over the ring...Twilight is like a pony Super-Saiyan now, and all she did to help was teleport five feet away? Really? Not to mention all the other ponies have taken on countless challenges and beaten some of the biggest baddies and villains in Equestria, and they really had trouble with an oversized talking leapord and some normal pony thugs?
Well, the episode was entertaining, if not particularly good. The whole "Daring Do is real and the writer of her own (now autobiographical and still ongoing?) stories"-deal didn't really sit well with me. Everything was just so awkward, I wouldn't have been surprised if, at the end, it had just turned out to be Rainbow Dash dreaming. I guess i should be thankful that they didn't use this overused plot twist, but somehow, I'm not. I'm not, however, complaining about the fact that Twilight's mother didn't turn out to be the Daring Do author after all. I never considered the comics to be canon, and honestly, I'm surprised that so many people apparently did. Really, have you ever actually read those things? But I digress. Yeah, the episode had its funny moments and Rainbow Dash made some cute faces and whatever, but as a whole, I didn't think it was that great. Not the worst (and it might be the closest thing to a Daring Do spin-off we'll ever get, so that's kinda neat, I guess), but really not great.
At first i thought it was like A.K. Yearling and some friends acted out the story before writing it, and the reason she was so mad all the time was because said act was constantly interrupted by annoying fans who thought it was all real. That would've been a worthy plot twist, actually. And would've made the entire episode more believable.
This basically sums how I felt. I liked Daring Do being a fictional thing within a fictional thing. It just doesn't make sense being in Equestria...at all. Someone would have to catch on? I mean, the mane 6 basically walked to her house, to which how they found so easily is another mystery. Ahuizotl attempting to commit these evil doings (that again don't make sense being in Equestria) that could destroy Equestria and leave it in ruin. Yes, lets live like a hermit, tell nobody and monetize over it by selling books. And they made RD more annoying than ever during the whole thing. This too. The comments Twilight made goes against absolutely everything she stands for. Honestly I wished that RD was just hallucinating or something.
Why were they even there? This episode would've been tons better if it was just Twilight and Rainbow Dash. Or just Rainbow Dash. That way she could've seen Daring Do was real and no one would believe her. Wasn't Celestia morally bound to help all this time? She responded to every other threat to Equestria. Miss "I-own-the-friggin-universe" just didn't notice any of this was going on? This is starting to look more and more like an inconsistent manga/anime.
