Ah. So obviously the way in which I felt Season 9 largely wasted them wouldn’t bother you. (At least they got to be key at the end.) I also felt that the School was a better destiny for Twilight than ruling Equestria - especially for no good reason.
As a whole, though, I just found many episodes an unforgivable waste - many of the Manes last focuses did them no favours.
for Spike, family is a bit of a tricky thing, which can include Celestia, Cadance, Twilight Velvet and Night Light in various parent/teacher capacities. (Shining Armor gets a clear older brother title because the only thing he taught him was how to play O&O … and that you should never do so around his sister.) Spike holds all these ponies at least as dear as he does his darling Rarity, but there is one pony in the whole world he holds as dear as all of them combined. If they make a word for that, Spike doesn’t know - so he just calls her Twilight.
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