Talk:Princess Spike/@comment-5264252-20150621023241

I loved this episode. Not as much as other Spike episodes like Equestria Games or Dragon Quest, but still really good. It's great seeing Spike really take a stand in his role as Twilight's assistant instead of just acting as a butt-monkey again. I feel like the "Spike letting the power go to his head" thing was a bit exaggerated, since he didn't actually let it go to his head until after Cadance asked him about it. It was also a bit overplayed when it actually did get to it. It just came out of nowhere compared to the events that happened before. Every issue before, he was actually doing what he felt would be in Twilight's best interest. And while part of him did it because he enjoyed people taking his opinion into consideration, that shouldn't be such a big issue, wanting to be noticed, especially when pretty much everypony else was tossing his opinions and voice aside until Spike said it was on Princess Twilight's behalf. He was majorly trying to help relieve a load off of Twilight so she could focus on the summit when she woke up. The main issue was most of the ponies being too stubborn to have resolved it earlier and other ponies making their own mistakes that led up to the issue, then feeling they needed to blame Twilight/Spike, so it was great seeing a Spike-centric episode where the problem wasn't because of him, at least not directly.