Talk:Spike at Your Service/@comment-67.173.244.66-20121229204612

This has been mentioned in pretty much every comment, but I think I'll join the herd and point out my opinions, as well as personal opinions with this episode.

I agree that this episode seemed overdone and out of character. Although here are my opinions and excuses:

-Spike seemed super out of character in this episode, as mentioned below. However, he may have been rushing and blinded by his obsession with helping Applejack that he was oblivious to the damage he was causing. Also, note that AJ's work is MUCH different than Twilight's. It makes sense that he wouldn't know how to do the chores too well. However I don't think he should have been THAT bad at them, ESPECIALLY at baking the pie.

-Overdone plot. I think they good well with this plot, even if it was overdone. But there seemed to be so many obvious ways that this could have been improved without putting so much of Spike's character developement in danger. For instance as explained below (I thought this too) it would have been more acceptable if Spike had been too much of a help and did all the chores perfectly, leading to the apple family becoming lazy and disinterested in working any longer. However I DID like how Spike more came to the realization that his service wasn't appreciated too much, instead of the usual way where they have to repay the life dept. Even though he did end up saving apple jack as planned, he didn't actually say the dept was over. In reality, Applejack explained her feelings instead of trying to avoid the problem by making up excuses, which Spike in the end accepts.

I'm hoping on the next spike episode coming soon, they'll be more careful with character development. :)