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  1. Elscire Elscire

    This week's episode actually made me really miserable, by reminding me of the sort of depressing economic and commercial realities which I go to poni specifically to get away from. This is what it should have been like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xvs7-shFnIo

    Wednesday, 01-Feb-12 22:23:14 UTC from web
    1. Jordan Cameron Jordan Cameron

      @elscire That was fun

      Wednesday, 01-Feb-12 22:29:13 UTC from web
    2. Tyler Tyler & Tyler Tyler Tyler & Tyler

      @elscire hey, you should be happy, after all, the ruthless commercialists were beaten by good old family business in the end

      Thursday, 02-Feb-12 00:52:44 UTC from web
      1. Elscire Elscire

        @trister - except they weren't. The only reason the Apple family came out on top was because the crowd rebelled against Flim and Flam, and that only happened due to the compromise in quality. If they'd started by selling the good barrels which were made before turning the speed up, the ending would have been totally different...=\

        Thursday, 02-Feb-12 08:14:24 UTC from web
        1. Jordan Cameron Jordan Cameron

          @elscire That falls under the 'Cut Lex Luthor a Cheque' category; whereby any villainous character would be infinitely more successful if they applied their skills to more legitimate means

          Thursday, 02-Feb-12 08:16:07 UTC from web
          1. Elscire Elscire

            @tenmihara Most probably so - but the original issue was that the episode frustrated by pointing out that in real life, Flim & Flam would have made a better decision and industry would triumph over small providers as always - the downed here being that people would have been fine with it. tvtropes is great, but villains in real life are unfortunately much more successful than their fictional counterparts.

            Thursday, 02-Feb-12 08:25:10 UTC from web
        2. Tyler Tyler & Tyler Tyler Tyler & Tyler

          @elscire exactly, they would have won if they had taken care with their product, assuming that Twilight and the others hadn't helped out. Once they started trying to overproduce everything was getting caught out at the quality stage. Isn't it a good message that the community ended up recognising that the care of their local family business was better than the soulless industrial?

          Thursday, 02-Feb-12 11:57:42 UTC from web