I haven't seen entire gen 5 yet, but he feels like a character made for the sake of being "adorable" or, I don't know, memes? I am not a big fan of him unfortunately. He has actual personality, learns his lessons and we can see him growing throughout the show. He has many traits mane 6 doesn't have (because these simply wouldn't fit them). Spike also represents that more "geeky" part of us that mane 6 doesn't as even Rainbow Dash, for example isn't much into superhero stuff, while Spike definitely is. We struggle to fully handle our emotions as due to us developing these are running rampart in all sorts of ways. a little too blunt despite our honesty and despite best intentions we may even hurt someone. We say things that sometimes are dumb or. Suddenly nothing is simple anymore, we see hardships and struggles we were blind to before. He's a young teenager going through that period of life when one wants to do good, but is confused with the world around them. Tbh I much prefer Spike, because he can actually be a relatable character to young audience. I'm not sure that the intention ever was to "hype" Flurryheart rather again use her as a plot device, I mean Jesus, "the Chrystaling" was awful, and I gush over Starlight, but yeah I feel like they saw potential episode plot filler and creating a baby character, but I agree I would have at least liked to see her aged in "the ending of the end" in some kind of relevant position of importance.(maybe that could have light weight justified making her to begin with.) But yeah I just saw, easy plotline/plotline fodder in creating Flurryheart rather than hyping us to believe she would do anything special. He feels like a response to the criticism of hyping McFlurry and then making her completely irrelevant without explanation, but while McFlurry never really overstayed her welcome while showing a higher than normal amount of awareness for a baby, Sparky has more or less been a glorified macguffin, given overpowered abilities that almost feel like they exist to create conflict while creating a power the main villain wants which will make him more important than he actually needs to be Sparky has been my least favorite part of G5 so far. Spike without question, even with the rough writing he was given, he's just an all around more pleasant character Spike had the advantage of actually being a supporting personality, and that's bc he wasn't a literal infant. Sparky got a bad wrap from the writers, he's basically just a magical tool(plot device) that they hope young kids will find cute, but he doesn't bring anything to the story himself but his magic I see being leaned on many times in the future as a plot device, obviously seeing as the main plot has Opaline wanting to kidnap him for power. I think watching Sparky mature and potentially have a voice actor would be interesting, but I don't believe that is going to happen, I believe even if Gen 5 runs a 5-7 year course they will stay close to the same as ponies and there won't be any leaps in the plot to suggest skipping of time or just outright time progression. Which in looking at things this way may be an indication of how they are going to scale time throughout the story of Gen.5. Twilight may "refer" to Spike as a "baby dragon" but it's obvious at least a few years had passed since his birth seeing as Twilight hatched him as a filly via "the Rainboom".
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