Talk:Princess Spike/@comment-25559529-20170819184921

As far as I'm taking this "looking back at S5/6 episodes I actually like and thinking about them for more than two seconds and more than face value", this one is an outlier -- At first, I liked this episode, then I disliked it, then I very quickly liked it again.

But really, when I went back to this one and applied the whole "what REALLY causes the conflict" like with 514 and 709... things really aren't Spike's fault. He fails, but that is hardly surprising since he was handed a sinking ship by Cadance...

Aside from the fact that I'm pretty sure Twilight has stayed awake for 3 days before, this is all Cadance asks him to do.


 * Princess Cadance: Can I count on you to see to it that she isn't disturbed?

He acts w/ Twi's best interest and tries to loyally fulfill his orders.

Yeah, sure, he acts with Twilight's authority, but it was clearly established that no one would listen to him otherwise.

Canterlot should have been properly maintained before the damn summit that's taking place. That those egocentric ponies were awful at sharing is the problem, not the idea of sharing itself.

Spike's like Tori Vega; even the damn bird has it out for him!

Is Spike in character throughout the whole episode? Yes. Was the greed montage greedy? Yes. Does it have anything to do with the actual problems in the episode? No.

Also, Starlight sucks.