History YMMV / MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E15TripleThreat

* ShippingGoggles: The two ponies fighting over the same seat end up looking like they might be on a date. Either that or they're both happy to have a place to sit and enjoy their muffins.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: There are some people who do not like the changelings' reformation or their change in appearance. Thorax reveals that there are still renegade changelings out there.

* IdiotPlot:
** The entire episode is fueled by Spike thinking he needs to prevent Ember and Thorax from encountering one another, based entirely on the belief that the two of them would hate each other because of how different their personalities are. Worse, Twilight and Starlight agree with the sentiment and help keep the two apart. Then somehow ''the map'' gets wind of this and prompts Spike to go fix a problem of his ''own'' doing, even though the friendship problem resolves itself without any involvement from him (and in fact only ''exists'' because of him). It's worth noting that Starlight's introductory episode was largely based around how different people can still be friends, and making everyone the same is no key to happiness.
** Even if one assumes Spike’s reasons to want to keep Ember and Thorax apart were reasonable (or had a more rational basis like not wanting to unfairly divide his attention between them), there’s little reason for Spike to not simply explain his scheduling mistake to Thorax and ask him to merely wait for the end of Ember’s visit.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Some have taken Thorax's behavior in this episode to hint he's ''[[MisterSeahorse pregnant]]''. After all, if the changelings function like an insect hive in terms of reproduction, it follows that the "queen" would be the one to produce eggs to be fertilized. He mentions stress, trouble sleeping, constantly has an upset stomach, and his moods are a bit more erratic than in past appearances.

* FridgeBrilliance: While the canonicity may vary, Spike's fears become a lot more sensible when you take the IDW comics into play, specficially the issues of the conflict between Yakyakistan and the dragons. To get a sense of how bad it was, Spike was the OnlySaneMan amongst everyone, including ''Twilight.''

* IdiotPlot: The entire episode is fueled by Spike thinking he needs to prevent Ember and Thorax from encountering one another, based entirely on the belief that the two of them would hate each other because of how different their personalities are. Worse, Twilight and Starlight agree with the sentiment and help keep the two apart. Then somehow ''the map'' gets wind of this and prompts Spike to go fix a problem of his ''own'' doing, even though the friendship problem resolves itself without any involvement from him (and in fact only ''exists'' because of him). It's worth noting that Starlight's introductory episode was largely based around how different people can still be friends, and making everyone the same is no key to happiness.

** ''Fiendship is Magic 5: Queen Chrysalis'' shows that the first time that changelings encountered dragons was with a large dragon that expressed his interest in wanting to eat them, which implies that the latter species looks down on the former, not only with suspicion and hate, but also as prey (though that might probably be the case for a number of species in regards to dragons).

** While the canonicity may vary, Spike's fears become a lot more sensible when you take the IDW comics into play, specficially the issues of the conflict between Yakyakistan and the dragons. To get a sense of how bad it was, Spike was the OnlySaneMan amongst everyone, including ''Twilight.''

* WhatAnIdiot: You would think that when inviting Ember, a dragon, would mean that gems are obvious choice for the prepared food. Instead, Spike arranges normal pony food in gem bowls which results in the bowls and ''the castle walls'' being eaten and Ember developing the misconception that in Equestria it's polite to spread food on walls for your friends.

** One of the two "friendship problems" Spike encounters is Lyra and Bon Bon bickering LikeAnOldMarriedCouple.

* WhatAnIdiot: You would think that when inviting Ember, a dragon, would mean that gems are obvious choice for the prepared food. Instead, Spike arranges normal pony food in gem bowls which results in the bowls and _the castle walls_ being eaten and Ember developing the misconception that in Equestria it's polite to spread food on walls for your friends.

* WhatAnIdiot: You would think that when inviting Ember, a fellow dragon would mean that gems is obvious choice for the food prepared. Instead, he proceeds to serve normal pony food in gem bowls which results in getting the walls eaten and giving the Ember the misconception that food is served on walls in Equestria.

* IdiotPlot: The entire episode is fueled by Spike thinking he needs to prevent Ember and Thorax from encountering one another, based entirely on the belief that the two of them would hate each other because of how different their personalities are. Worse, Twilight and Starlight agree with the sentiment and help keep the two apart. It's worth noting that Starlight's introductory episode was largely based around how different people can still be friends, and making everyone the same is no key to happiness.

* WhatAnIdiot: You would think that when inviting Ember, a fellow dragon would mean that gems is obvious choice for the food prepared. Instead, he proceeds to serve normal pony food in gem bowls which results in getting the walls eaten and giving the Ember the misconception that food are served on walls in Equestria.

* TheWoobie: Fans felt really bad for Derpy Hooves's muffin after Ember smeared it on the side of a building.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Some have taken Thorax's behavior in this episode to hint he's ''[[MisterSeahorse pregnant]]''. After all, if the changelings function like an insect hive in terms of reproduction, it follows that the "queen" would be the one to produce eggs to be fertilized. He mentions stress, trouble sleeping, constantly has an upset stomach, and his moods are a bit more erratic than in past appearances. Although this is very doubtful as developments have pointed towards the Changelings as not being a Eusocial species.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Some have taken Thorax's behavior in this episode to hint he's ''[[MisterSeahorse pregnant]]''. After all, if the changelings function like an insect hive in terms of reproduction, it follows that the "queen" would be the one to produce eggs to be fertilized. He mentions stress, trouble sleeping, constantly has an upset stomach, and his moods are a bit more erratic than in past appearances.

* TheWoobie: Fans felt really bad for Derpy Hooves' muffin after Ember smeared it on the side of a building.

* AuthorsSavingThrow:
** There are some people who do not like the changelings' reformation or their change in appearance. Thorax reveals that there are still renegade changelings out there.
** Lyra and Bon Bon get to be actual characters after spending most of their post-Slice of Life episodes as silent background characters.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: There are some people who do not like the changelings' reformation or their change in appearance. Thorax reveals that there are still renegade changelings out there.
** Ember mistaking Starlight for Twilight is a subtler, more measured and less mean-spirited way of adressing fan complaints than what happened the previous episode.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot:
** Many fans were hoping that there would be a long-standing hatred between changelings and dragons to give Spike's motivation of keeping Thorax and Ember apart some weight as opposed to him just assuming they wouldn't get along.
** NoMereWindmill: Considering that it's unrealistic to expect an entire race of change their way of life,and considering that Thorax himself says that some changelings are still AlwaysChaoticEvil, it's a reasonable assumption from the fans to expect the dragons to mistrust the changelings.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Many fans were hoping that there would be a long-standing hatred between changelings and dragons to give Spike's motivation of keeping Thorax and Ember apart some weight as opposed to him just assuming they wouldn't get along.

** NoMereWindmill: Considering that it's unrealistic to expect an entire race of change their way of life,and considering that Thorax himself says that some changelings are still AlwaysChaoticEvil, it's a reasonable assumption from the fansto expect the dragons to mistrust the changelings.

** Ember mistaking Starlight for Twilightis a subtler, more measured and less mean-spirited way of adressing fan complaints than what happened the previous episode.