![]() ![]() However, rather than simply being scared, or vulnerable, Hitch hardens and turns into a gritty masked vigilante both above and outside the law. In this episode, we see Hitch’s softer side as he gets (rightfully) worried sick about Sparky. In Episode 8, Have You Seen This Dragon?, Sparky goes missing, and Hitch does not take it well, (nor should he). The very idea is ridiculous as it negates everything that a community garden is supposed to be, and what it is supposed to represent. In Episode 5, The Cutie Mark Mix-Up, Hitch is depicted as overseeing a community garden with an iron fist, er…iron hoof. He makes up laws on the fly that go against everything he came to believe in in MLP: A New Generation. In Episode 2, Growing Pains, the pony who once adhered religiously to town ordinances, is now a despot who rules by decree, (simply because the plot required the story to explore the question of earth ponies and whether or not they could control their new found fauna magic). ![]() The writers don’t seem to know what to do with Hitch, so he ends up inserted weirdly as an authority figure where authority figures simply do not belong. Sadly, all that goes away in Make Your Mark. His arc is a morality play of sorts - an example of how rigid, dogmatic thinking can put a good-hearted person on the wrong side of history if they’re not careful, but also how they can become a genuine force for good if they are receptive to earnest critique, and open to change. He was a well-meaning pony who took his social responsibility seriously, but was also strong enough to admit that he was wrong, and actually causing social harm in the process. That pivot is what made Hitch a compelling character. Not about litter, of course, but rather, about unicorns and pegasi, and the unjust laws, superstitions, and economic power structures that caused Maretime Bay to fear them and systematically “other” any foreigners. Over the course of the film, however, Hitch gets to know Izzy and Zipp and Pipp, and grows to see that he was wrong. In My Little Pony: A New Generation, Hitch is a sheriff who comically keeps to the letter of the law - generally characterized by enforcing litter ordinances that he can recite from the town charter from memory. ![]()
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