Talk:Spike/@comment-222.127.43.235-20120404081036/@comment-4742142-20120404210331

Are you serious?! After what the teenage dragons tried to get Spike to do (to smash the phoenix egg)?! Just because dragons are fierce and scary doesn't mean he has to be. What's wrong with being different from other dragons?

Nothing personal, but I get annoyed with people say, "Spike is being treated like a slave." I don't disagree that in a few episodes, he was left out entirely and should have been present (such as "Sweet and Elite", "The Last Roundup", "A Friend in Deed"), you can thank the writers for that. I know the last two episodes were done by Amy Keating Rogers -- is she forgetting that Spike is on the show, or does she not like the character at all anymore? :P I think Rogers is a great writer, but not seeing Spike in two straight episodes she's written (while the six ponies appear) bothered me a lot. I felt that there were missed opportunities for some development.

I'm also annoyed to hear people say Rarity is taking advantage of Spike. That's absolutely untrue. Rarity didn't make Spike give her anything. It was his own choice to give Rarity something that interested her. If it weren't for that, Spike would have remained the beast he became in "Secret of My Excess". We've seen in recent episodes that she does care about him in some fashion. So, I have to dismiss your argument that she's taking advantage of him.

To the other person that responded to the original comment: maybe some of us were overreacting, but how would you feel, if a favorite main character was left out for a long stretch? Spike was left out of the first 5 of 8 episodes between January and the first episode of March 2012, and two of those absences were when all six ponies had an appearance (that's one reason why I was bothered by not seeing Spike). Not only that, but I felt that there were missed opportunities to really develop relationships with other characters, including Applejack. Also, I guess you could say at the time, I had a feeling that the crew want less of him to appear on the show. He's hardly seen writing to Princess Celestia anymore, unless it's a Spike-centric episode.