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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.
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.
I think they recognized this and realized people would act the way they did.
Look, I’m just trying to be optimistic here.
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.
Honestly at this point I’m really open to almost anything that they do with him. Again, it seems like this episode had issues that were so apparent in production but not much could be done.
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.
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.
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.
@Swashbucklist
What we need is something like Miller mentioned. Sadly, S6 is already probably written so the stuff people are mentioning to him now might not get notice.
It’s not about having a bigger role, it’s about having a more consistency and character growth. And not being a piece of shit.
Yeah, I wish he gets a bigger role than he is now.
I think Miller and him were able to move past that part and eventually got into a productive discussion. Miller made a lot of concessions and probably realized a bunch of things.
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.
I think DouchebagDork was rather fair.
@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.
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.
The paradigm was different in the 90s.
That’s a nice strawman the Simpsons constructed right there.
There is a difference between disagreeing and ignoring feedback.
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.
Jim kind of conceded that he could see why people would be upset with this episode and even realized stuff has to change.
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.