They better get them treated as well, otherwise they may catch some wood-borne illnesses~ Oh, I agree about Lero, he is rather blase about everything and I don't really like the whole "most famous herd ever" thing either. I did like the backgrounds that were made for some of the characters though, like Lyra being an ex-guardsmare and a martial arts master or Twilight being a Duchess to be, but also having a rather broken relationship with her mother. Oh, they better watch out for termites as well...
The zen art of gazebos is hard Dash wasn't horribly interesting either, which I guess makes her a perfect match for Lero; on that note, it felt like Lero really had no flaws, just a sob story and hangups about being a lone alien in an alien world. Lyra's backstory was also outta left field, being a unicorn Solid Snake especially with termites around. Sleep tight, and don't let the termites bite.
Lyra's back story is better told in some of the chapters of the, er, extended universe (really wish it wasn't being written all crazy like), although the whole grandmaster thing is still a bit eh. And yeah, Lero really is a gary stu, while they barely even tried with Rainbow... at least Twi's was interesting.
Hey guys, did you ever see this song? My new favorite song. Discord is actually pretty cool if you get to know him. I see you guys have been up to completely random stuff.
Oh, and I came up with a logical idea for how an Orbital Friendship Cannon could work. First off, the massive beam is not destructive at all. What it does is affect sentient creatures in the area. Say it hits somebody. Immediately, they're assaulted with utter grief, sadness, and general dismay based off of how much evil they had caused in their life. The more grief, pain or general suffering that they had caused in the past, the more they feel. This has the side effect of sometimes utterly crushing the victims under painful emotions to the point where they don't feel like living is worth anything.
If it also helped people feel better if they're not actually as bad as they think they are, they'd be firing this thing everywhere. Of course, it'd probably be a therapy cannon instead of a friendship cannon, but hey.
But what if they have done so much evil things that they believe that it would be better to wallow in their grief than to kill themselves.