My Thoughts on "Princess Spike" · 7:17pm Jun 20th, 2015
Not much to say here. My thoughts on Princess Spike
Spoilers. You have been warned.
Well, this episode definitely happened. I almost wish it didn't. There were so many thing wrong with this episode that I don't even feel like talking about them. I hate how Spike gets his episodes, because they always make him such an ass. I get it, he's a baby. He does dumb things. But there's no reason to have him be a perfectly tolerable, or even likable, character for most of the series and then bastardize him for the sake of conflict in his own episode.
The premise of this episode is disgustingly plain and horribly stupid. There's a big meeting, which is basically Equestrian E3 (Just kidding, but the timing is perfect). Twilight overexerts herself while planning the summit, she needs sleep, and Cadance gives Spike the insanely simple task of making sure that Twilight gets her rest. Now, where this, say, for example, a Pinkie Pie or an Applejack episode, he would've done it, no problem.
But this is a Spike episode, so he f*cks it up, and in spectacular fashion.
He starts to pull rank to get things done for no other reason than "This episode has to have conflict". He makes poor choices in Twilight's stead, and causes a bunch of ponies to basically call for her head, a literal angry mob pounding on her door. So, so stupid.
Speaking of stupid, the citizens of Equestria are morons! Holy crap, they're so dumb that I find it baffling that they've made it this long! This guy is in tears because he had a falling out with his friend. He doesn't know what to do? Know what the falling out was over?
A chair.
This guy is about to stop being friends with some dude because he stole his chair at a meeting. Not only stupid, but annoying. Two ponies in particular, a delegate from Manehattan and a delegate from Whinnyapolois, are so unbearably irritating. They're so cliche! "Fughet about it!", "Don't ya know!", just god! The Manehattan dude had a slice of pizza as a Cutie Mark. I'm just going to leave it there.
The only thing that could resemble a saving grace for this episode was Cadance, and I don't even mean her involvement in the episode. In fact, this episode made me hate Cadance a lot more than I should, cause she was entirely too stupid. No, the reason I enjoyed Cadance being there was that last bit near the end, where she blocks the water main with her crystal magic that nobody knew she had. It was, admittedly, pretty cool.
Overall, I rate this episode at a 2 out of 10. It was a dumb, irritating, bastardizing episode that is no doubt going to contribute to all the "We hate Spike" going around.
Think I'm being too harsh on this episode? Share your thoughts in the comments, and I'll be back next week with my thoughts on the episode Party Pooped (Please be a Pinkamena episode!)
Oh yeah, by the way.. the description of the next episode gives away that it'll probably be a continuation of what happened in that episode.
Agreed, that was literally the only good thing about this episode. There are so many pus filled boils covering the body of work that is this episode, and it'd be to much effort to poke at them all.
But hey, we got some awesome crystal magic just being thrown out there. And Fancypants! (that's a plus right?)
3166531 Yea, hopefully next episode makes up for this fiasco.
3166554 I'm so disappointed, because I'm part of a seemingly endangered race of bronies who really like Spike, and he hasn't had a good episode since Dragon Quest, and that is disgusting. I hope he gets some redemption in the near future.
I did some research on this episode (yeah, that's how upset I am), and it turns out that the writer for this episode, Neal Dusedau, also wrote for Johnny Test and Fish Hooks: Two of my least favorite cartoons ever. Go figure.
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i know. Well it's not so endangered, the reddit thread for this episode unanimously were dissappointed, with "meh" at best.
And, even if you discount the Spike abuse that usually happens, it was still bad. I mean Cadance leaves him in charge, without saying "if someone shows up for Twilight, direct them to me".
Also he was just trying to do his prime "let her sleep" job. It wasn't until the Cadance talk midway, then he does a 180 to "i'm going to abuse the fuck out of this" which I did NOT see this coming.
And then realize this. The water pipe and all the destructive stuff was from when he was trying to do his duty. AND THERE WERE ALMOST NO CONSEQUENCES TO HIS SELFISH SIDE.
So it's like, "if you get unlimited power, it's way better to have fun than be responsible, because if you are responsible, you can fuck up"!
I swear, so many things wrong with this episode.