Ring Team 
I'm trying to reorganize my thoughts about little details from this episode. There are little things I like and little things that I don't understand.
I like the idea that we could get to know Spike a little bit more. That "past" that we were being told has lots of interesting narrative details, such as a mother and a father, the world-building... And I like how Spike is being conflicted because he was a dragon raised by ponies.
However, that ending was weird. I guess the only thing that could justify all that flashback was because we imagined it, kinda like that backstory from the griffon town in season 5. It was great in that episode. Here... I don't know. I think this is an episode I'd like to see being made from a different angle. It's like Dragon Quest, but with a dragon that says he's Spike's father.
I'm assuming that, if the episode was actually about a father meeting his son, his visual design would have been more interesting. The fact that his color palette was desaturated and boring kinda reflects some shady layers of this dragon.
If I have to be positive, I think the point of that episode was to show how people can easily manipulate other innocent people with a huge heart. I can imagine people taking advantage of a situation to be selfish and getting away with it.
It's not the worst episode I've watched in this season, but it's very unnecessary. If someone tells me this is his least favourite episode ever, **I can perfectly see why.** It goes from one direction to another one with no progression, it has a build-up with an ending that could have been different with another approach, the song wasn't very good...
I think the only reason why I didn't skip scenes like other episodes was because I was absolutely intrigued. Because of that, I didn't feel angry or disappointed or something like that. I was like "wait, what?".
But yeah. One more episode and I'll officially finish the season 8.
I like the idea that we could get to know Spike a little bit more. That "past" that we were being told has lots of interesting narrative details, such as a mother and a father, the world-building... And I like how Spike is being conflicted because he was a dragon raised by ponies.
However, that ending was weird. I guess the only thing that could justify all that flashback was because we imagined it, kinda like that backstory from the griffon town in season 5. It was great in that episode. Here... I don't know. I think this is an episode I'd like to see being made from a different angle. It's like Dragon Quest, but with a dragon that says he's Spike's father.
I'm assuming that, if the episode was actually about a father meeting his son, his visual design would have been more interesting. The fact that his color palette was desaturated and boring kinda reflects some shady layers of this dragon.
If I have to be positive, I think the point of that episode was to show how people can easily manipulate other innocent people with a huge heart. I can imagine people taking advantage of a situation to be selfish and getting away with it.
It's not the worst episode I've watched in this season, but it's very unnecessary. If someone tells me this is his least favourite episode ever, **I can perfectly see why.** It goes from one direction to another one with no progression, it has a build-up with an ending that could have been different with another approach, the song wasn't very good...
I think the only reason why I didn't skip scenes like other episodes was because I was absolutely intrigued. Because of that, I didn't feel angry or disappointed or something like that. I was like "wait, what?".
But yeah. One more episode and I'll officially finish the season 8.