Talk:Father Knows Beast/@comment-4531340-20181009053916

Season 8 had been on absolute fire since Road to Friendship... at least, until this episode. Now, don't get me wrong, I did enjoy the episode as a whole, but definitely not as much as I had the past 5 episodes before it. I mean, I would still say season 8 is going strong heading into the finale - just not as strong as it would have been, say, after last week's episode. Or the week before that. Or... well, you get the point.

My favorite parts of the episode were the Spike and Smolder interactions. Those were all great, without fail. It definitely really did seem like the end of the episode that Smolder considers Spike to be like a little brother, of sorts, and it also seemed that by the end, she'd given up trying to pretend she didn't care about him.

As for Sludge... honestly, I didn't hate him, like I know a lot of people do, and I'm wondering if that's mostly because of knowing ahead of time that he wasn't Spike's father, and so I didn't catch Spike getting crushed by the revelation as much as I should have.

Honestly, I think it was mostly how the episode glossed over the deep, emotional aspect of Spike realizing Twilight is truly his family to him that made it not as good as it could have been. It was also a bit of a retread of Dragon Quest, but I don't feel like that was necessarily such a bad thing.

Also, the song was probably my least favorite season 8 song, but it wasn't bad or anything like that.