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>Scootaloo's parents I feel the most mixed on.
who doesn´t feel like that? I was struggling to watch the episode because of them and how the episode is driven by their appearance.

>On the one hoof, what would we be complaining about if we never saw her parents Their would be butthurt over it and I understand them trying to tie a loose end.
I don't hate them and this episode taken as a vacuum, I don't think thy are that bad.
even by not acting with all that bad will or any sort of malice in their attitudes, the context and the way the episode introduces them for a plot device makes you feel as if they are villains.

>you could complain of arbitrariness but I think their was more than a random logic in making them these adventurer researchers. It does fit in a way. They were in Ponyville to study the Everfree forest, when they found most everything they could there, they left for more dangerous places and didn't feel comfortable bringing their daughter.
whihc is why one doesn´t see them as bad characters but the context and the way this episode is executed makes you believe that they only care about their own interests but they do care about Scootaloo as well. There is nothing wrong that her parents want to spend more time together working on what they want to do.In fact, Scootaloo had a lot of excitement towards that until she was told to leave Ponyville despite her actions to avoid it.

>I think it could've been a glories opportunity with Scootaloo's implied disabilities that she has parents who are quite outdoors man adventurers, but now that almost feels like a wasted opportunity.
not only wasted but quite disappointing at bringing up a superficial cliché of: "Parents not understanding their kids because of X reasons". Hollywood usually makes movies about parents having to work and not caring enough about their kids, causing a conflict and creating an artificial misunderstood situation, always putting the kid in the right side and putting the father as some sort of antagonist because of bringing money to his family. The funniest part of all is that when that father is about to sign (his biggest desire) a multimillionaire contract that would make his company rich at the end of the movie, he has a sudden realization of leaving it behind because he has to support his kid in the final baseball match and for some reason, whenever the father appear, the kid does a home run,his team magically wins and that gesture from the his father is why one makes America proud.

Alright, I was laughing a little bit whole I was writing this but I cannot deny that these kind of plots devices are somewhat dreary to me. This cliché doesn´t happen in this episode in an overblown way but I expose it just to show how American writers apply this trend quite often (especially in the 90s and 2000s), exposing the father or parents as the villains when there is a lack of time or any sort of comprehension between both. This becomes apparent when Scootaloo´s parents only focus on their part but do not show enough empathy towards Scootaloo´s point of view. This conflict happens over and over until Scootaloo decides to go to the train station. What makes this situation more pleasant are the antics and comedy that happen all the time. Fortunately, FiM still manages to not to take itself too seriously when Rainbow appears when the CMC are crying with the 3 tickets or Zecora´s potion. So it wasn´t all that bad to watch in practice but it´s pretty disappointing in concept.