Well, looks like everything I said a week or two ago about needlessly and unnaturally keeping Dakota in a one-dimensional role is actually totally wrong. Now I look like an idiot! But I’m a happy idiot, because the thing I complained about is being fixed. Hooray!
The writers for MLP are very good at most of what they do, but taking advantage of interesting characters and roles is something they’re VERY slow with. It took 7 seasons before Celestia, arguably the most important secondary character in the show, got her own episodes (and they were, of course, some of the best the show’s had). Just because DT and SS haven’t been around much lately, that doesn’t mean they don’t have potential that will be explored. If anything, having Dakota as a human friend who struggles with feelings of ego and jealousy of Phoebe’s connection to Marigold would offer WAY more opportunities and interest than just the tired, overplayed, unnaturally stinted role she’s forced to keep taking right now.
I have to wonder: am I the only one who’s frequently disappointed with the way Dakota is written? Her character always seems to have potential to evolve into a new, interesting role and dynamic, but it seems like Ms. Simpson actively holds her back and keeps her unnaturally static, forcing Dakota to keep fulfilling the same cheap, convenient role in the comic rather than letting herself explore the character to her actual potential.
Phoebe and Her Unicorn is great in almost everything it does, but its one substantial failing is Ms. Simpson’s refusal to realize Dakota’s potential and allow her to develop beyond a one-dimensional archetype.
Well, looks like everything I said a week or two ago about needlessly and unnaturally keeping Dakota in a one-dimensional role is actually totally wrong. Now I look like an idiot! But I’m a happy idiot, because the thing I complained about is being fixed. Hooray!