I've seen a ton of people complaining about this episode focusing on Spike and not the game events. While I understand people expected this to be about the games themselves, I think doing so would have been redundant. We've already had several episodes focus on games/competitions (Fall Weather Friends, Sonic Rainboom), the Equestria games events (Rainbow Falls) and then The Last Round Up, focusing on the disappointment of not doing well at competitions. What could this episode have done that those episodes or other shows (The Frycook Games from Spongebob comes to mind) haven't already done? I think it was really cool that Polsky centered an episode around the people watching and working the games (I loved little touches like the magic security checkpoint, even if it was there to set up the climax, it was still a cool idea), and not as much on the actual competitions.
Regardless of the episode's premise, I think this is a very good episode (especially for Spike's character). It had some funny moments ("sup", spike singing, "nailed it!") a fantastic and original moral, and I think important character growth for Spike. 9/10
I've seen a ton of people complaining about this episode focusing on Spike and not the game events. While I understand people expected this to be about the games themselves, I think doing so would have been redundant. We've already had several episodes focus on games/competitions (Fall Weather Friends, Sonic Rainboom), the Equestria games events (Rainbow Falls) and then The Last Round Up, focusing on the disappointment of not doing well at competitions. What could this episode have done that those episodes or other shows (The Frycook Games from Spongebob comes to mind) haven't already done? I think it was really cool that Polsky centered an episode around the people watching and working the games (I loved little touches like the magic security checkpoint, even if it was there to set up the climax, it was still a cool idea), and not as much on the actual competitions. Regardless of the episode's premise, I think this is a very good episode (especially for Spike's character). It had some funny moments ("sup", spike singing, "nailed it!") a fantastic and original moral, and I think important character growth for Spike. 9/10
