Talk:Sparkle's Seven/@comment-1319156-20190420214323/@comment-26423071-20190420234834

As I said before, I love this episode because Spike gets to be smart and awesome.

That doesn't happen often, so when it finally does, you really can't accuse the episode of "doing nothing".

Spike either gets to be the butt of jokes, or he gets to be a glorified cheerleader for the Mane Six. The episodes where he truly gets to shine are few and far between, so the writers making good use of Spike denitely counts as "something happening".

Makes it even more meaningful when you remember this was Cathy Weseluck's idea, so this episode was a way to apologize to Cathy on how Spike was treated in previous seasons.