Spike was growing on me over time, it seems like he was getting more intelligent than the mane 6....and then Triple Threat came out and now he's back to shitty shitty spike :/
You kind of did. If he was growing into a good character for you, and this episode wiped all of that way and made him shitty shitty Spike "again". I was not crazy about this episode, but it does not change the character at all for me. To each their own though.