Talk:Spike at Your Service/@comment-32136229-20121229140532

I just watched it the second time, and here is my opinion on this episode. SPOILERS AHEAD

Let me start with a few issues I have with this episode.

On Spike, how did he became so clumsy all of a sudden? Being Twilight's #1 assistant, he should have been way better at doing what he did in assisting Applejack. I guess you could make the justification that maybe he isn't suited to do the work that she did in this episode, as opposed to the work that Twilight made him do. But seriously, I think they should have made him so that he was actually a very good helper like how other episodes portray him and it would still work.

Also, where did the Noble Dragon Code even come from? It was never even mentioned in any of the previous episodes. They didn't even explain where it's even originated. It just felt like it came out of nowhere and was put in there just to give a reason why he wanted to assist Applejack after being saved by her. They could have made it so that it would be something that Spike made up so that he can have an excuse to assist Applejack.

The characterization of the Main 6 in general were pretty good. I think this is the first time that Merriwether Williams got every character right. Although Pinkie did feel a bit over-the-top, she was still fine. She has quite improved in writing the characters. I also liked the humor in this episode. I especially liked the Pinkie moustache.

So really, despite a few issues, this episode still managed to be good. It's not as good than the other Merriwether episode in this season, but it was definitely better than all her Season 2 episodes. This episode gets an 8/10.