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Background Pony #EE96
@Itsthinking  
I doubt that, considering Miller’s overall reaction until Douchebag weighed in, but don’t mind me. I might as well be shitposting for all the use it is.
Background Pony #EE96
@Background Pony #D48B  
Though it did come off like he was blaming Twilight for the situation. Still, I think there’s enough blame to go between her and Cadence for what happened to conclude that this genuinely wasn’t Spike’s fault, hence the implied blaming on a princess. Spike didn’t even need to be in the episode, I don’t think.
Background Pony #EE96
@Background Pony #3EFE  
It seemed more like he wasn’t blaming the situation on Twilight, but Cadence. He asked whose fault it was that Twilight had scheduled meetings while she decided to take an unplanned nap from exhaustion. Regardless of whether Twilight should have or could have made changes to her schedule before going to sleep, the one who should’ve taken responsibility for her schedule was Cadence, who charged Spike with keeping her asleep and nothing more. That the blame eventually fell on him for the whole situation is demonstrably unfair, even if it is played for laughs, which I can appreciate.
Background Pony #EE96
@Itsthinking  
Fortunately it only sounds disheartening. In reality I’ll be watching and enjoying what’s to be had with the rest of you fags once the show starts up again. Might skip the Friendship Games, though. By the looks of the promos, there’s probably a good reason why it’s straight to TV.
Itsthinking
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@Background Pony #D48B  
That’s pretty disheartening. But I assumed that the show would keep going since they keep introducing things that allow it to. So maybe. I’m thinking that maybe they weren’t happy with the episode even before it aired, it was just too late and there was stuff fixed for S6, but probably not.
Background Pony #EE96
@Itsthinking  
Probably not. For all we know, they already had the general idea of S6 established before S5 aired, and by now they probably have already written the sixth season, as is the case now for S5.
 
More likely, this kind of feedback will be taken into account for a possible S7, but that’s uncertain and, let’s face it, it’ll be too little, too late by then. The movie will be happening in 2017, which will likely end the show and either start a second G4 arc or lead into G5.
 
On top of that, I’m already kinda getting tired of the show in its current, and it’s something I’ve loved since the beginning, so I’m probably not alone in that sentiment. It may be a minority, but be that as it may, I doubt they had much planned for little Spike. We don’t even know if Faust intended anything much greater for him. There’s just too much we don’t know, and I’m more comfortable just talking about or rewatching the show before S3. Doesn’t mean I won’t keep watching, though. Wouldn’t be half as fun if I didn’t.
Background Pony #F00F
@Itsthinking  
His criticism of the episode was pretty fair, yes, which is what made his statement blaming Spike’s problems on Twilight really stand out to me. His criticisms of Jim Miller, though, strike me as significantly less fair, pretty much assuming the worst interpretation of almost everything he wrote. It’d be like if someone saw what you’d been posting recently and accused you of having a bias against Miller and of trying to incite bronies to harass him.
Background Pony #F00F
I think Douchebag Dork tipped his hand when he tried to pin the blame on Twilight, saying she scheduled meetings while asleep. So tell me, who was it that told Spike to not allow Twilight to be disturbed at any cost, but didn’t give him any way to deal with the inevitable questions that would arise? Plenty of blame to go around.
 
@Background Pony #1781  
The people who are expressing their opinion respectfully, or who are bringing up reasonable criticisms of the episode, are doing a good thing. The ones who are causing drama, whether they’re resorting to insults, blowing things out of proportion, or distorting anything said by anyone associated with DHX or IDW, quite frankly make me ashamed to be a fan of Spike.
Background Pony #F00F
@Minus: “this portrayal of Spike was just embarassingly bad”
 
I’m sorry, but how? He was portrayed as someone who was disappointed at being overlooked, found a way to get some respect by proxy, ended up abusing that (though not to a ridiculous extent), and apologized for doing so. And the decisions we saw him making weren’t bad. My problem was how the writing ended up having fate just dump on Spike, rather than having the crisis result from what he did wrong.
Background Pony #5D37
@Background Pony #E5A2  
Well said, but too bad the biggest whiners in the fandom won’t listen, That’s what happens when you lack any creativity–you demand everyone else submit to you will. Ask any artist who’s ever done commissions.
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It's bad. In a good way!
I’m not seeing this terrible behavior Jim is supposed to be demonstrating. Do people just use a really mean and evil voice in their heads for him?  
But it is irritating that he’s not acknowledging that this portrayal of Spike was just embarassingly bad. This was their chance to sort Spike out and make him an actual character again. But they intenionally AVOIDED doing that. This is something the staff NEED to be notified of, as they clearly aren’t capable of working it out on their own that they need to stop.
 
Sure they can say Spike’ll get a better episode later, but cmon! This is SEASON FIVE! I’ve already used up the last of my hope on this episode, and now I’ve run out. I am glad people are making a stink over this, as it has been the episode to end the combo of AMAZING episodes this season had going.