Talk:The Cutie Map - Part 2/@comment-10390252-20150409090730/@comment-32136229-20150410123346

I haven't watched his video in its entirety (hopefully, it's not as bad as his Equestria Games review), but Tommy Oliver did bring up an interesting idea on how Spike could be implemented in his reply to Joshscorcher's comment in that video. Here's an excerpt from it:

"And yeah, adding Spike in would shift the plot, but I think that idea brings up another interesting train of thought: What even is equality in Equestria anyways? We have so many different sentient beings in this world besides ponies, and Spike is one of them, that it makes Starlight's ideology look silly. Even in her town, you have Pegasi flying and Unicorns using magic, biological, baked in "inequality". Having Spike be in the picture and bamboozle the so-called equality Starlight had a wrap on could have opened the floodgates for that entire conversation, and could have been really interesting. Promoting an idea of ideological equality based on respect of and the embracing of our gifts, and not trying to force literal equality via physical hampering and emotional lobotomy."

Now, I don't really mind Spike not going along with the adventure, and the writers did make a good excuse as to why. However, I do admit this is a very interesting idea to see play out in the episode itself, though I'm not sure it would be all that necssary. I mean, Starlight's ideology was already broken to begin with, and the episode does a good job of showing just how dumb her ideas of equality is.