Father Knows Best · 2:28am Jan 29th, 2023
Father Knows Best
This is an episode I never rewatched until now. Execution-wise, it's a middle of the road episode. Not great. Not terrible.
It's the story of dragon named Sludge who crash lands in Ponyville, gets nursed back to health by Twilight and her friends, grows accustomed to the comforts of castle life, and lies to Spike, pretending to be his father so he doesn't have to leave.
Smolder sets Spike straight. And we get to see some fantastic bonding here. It's rare that she and Spike got to interact, but whenever they did, it was always pure gold.
Father Knows Best gives Spike the opportunity to articulate a lesson that a lot of us need to hear: that family is those who love us. That Twilight has been his real family all along. That Spike has no reason to feel ashamed of who he is, and how he came to be that way.
However, Sludge is just so darn sleazy, that even though you're supposed to hate him, it's still difficult to watch. Spike, after all he's done, is still a kid. Spike is noble and kind and hopeful and pure of heart and emotionally fragile.
And Sludge just takes all of Spike's hopes and dreams and twists them and crushes them, and uses him.
It's painful to watch. Too painful.
Poor Spike.
Discuss.
-Sprocket
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Hate to be that person, Sprocket, but it's "Father Knows Beast". Also, Sludge is quite aptly named.
People talk about is Twilight his mom, or sister? It's my headcanon that it's the female dragons that lay the egg, and it's the male dragon that fertilises the egg by bathing it in their magic, from their firebreath.
Twilight didn't lay any eggs but she sure did bathe that egg in magic. A LOT of magic.
Twilight aint Spike's mom, she's his DAD :D