Talk:Spike/@comment-27459579-20160322210037/@comment-2103721-20160401181110

^He was most emphatically not the saviour of the Crystal Empire, considering all he did was fall down a tower, Shining had to throw Cadance to save him and the heart, and Twilight did all the work finding the crystal heart.

We know Twilight is capable of teleporting things, with her magical powers, she could easily teleport her letters to the princess, bypassing Spike completely, and Celestia could no doubt teleport the replies back to her.

The reason we dislike him is because, whenever he has an episode dedicated to him (which is surprisingly frequent) it's always about him wanting to be valued by the real characters, and finally learning that he is. That's all his character is when he's in the spotlight, which is completely different to how he is portrayed normally. Normal Spike is tolerable, but weird spotlight spike is just a wasted episode.