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Sorry, but RedFoal does have a point. The UnfortunateImplications in this are problematic. Not only is it \
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Sorry, but RedFoal does have a point. The UnfortunateImplications in this are problematic. Not only is it \\\"the ones who raise you are your family\\\" but \\\"good thing we raised you and not your own kind, because look how awful they are.\\\"
I can\\\'t support that the ponies are \\\"kidnappers\\\" since somebody [as far as Twilight knows] found Spike\\\'s egg and gave it to the school, who then gave it to Twilight as a test.
But ponies consider dragons fierce and scary (and dragons consider ponies weak and dainty) so it stands to reason they would not try to return him to his clutch or family.
But the Ponies do treat him pretty much like a medieval page -- which really is barely different from being sold into indentured servitude. Parents would send their children into doing this so they could grow up and have a better life, theoretically. And they do treat him kindly, but it\\\'s usually \\\"Spike!\\\" or \\\"Spike take a letter\\\". Twilight is pretty much the only one who says \\\"please\\\" when she asks him to do anything. Everypony else just uses him as a secretary/chef. Even in this episode, he brought a nice tea service to the trench, and nopony thanked him. (Though they have thanked him before in the \\\"Owl\\\'s Well That Ends Well\\\" episode when he went to a special effort for a special event, so...)
It\\\'s not the happy SugarBowl the show goes for. But this is not the first time the show has tried to give a nice lesson only to have it veer into UnfortunateImplications and uncomfortable territory.
Bridle Gossip and Over A Barrel both did it too, with the sub-message of \\\"not a pony, not like us, not good/nice\\\". Only with the Dragons is the \\\"not good/nice\\\" part reinforced rather than debunked.
I can\\\'t support that the ponies are \\\"kidnappers\\\" since somebody [as far as Twilight knows] found Spike\\\'s egg and gave it to the school, who then gave it to Twilight as a test.
But ponies consider dragons fierce and scary (and dragons consider ponies weak and dainty) so it stands to reason they would not try to return him to his clutch or family.
But the Ponies do treat him pretty much like a medieval page -- which really is barely different from being sold into indentured servitude. Parents would send their children into doing this so they could grow up and have a better life, theoretically. And they do treat him kindly, but it\\\'s usually \\\"Spike!\\\" or \\\"Spike take a letter\\\". Twilight is pretty much the only one who says \\\"please\\\" when she asks him to do anything. Everypony else just uses him as a secretary/chef. Even in this episode, he brought a nice tea service to the trench, and nopony thanked him. (Though they have thanked him before in the \\\"Owl\\\'s Well That Ends Well\\\" episode when he went to a special effort for a special event, so...)
It\\\'s not the happy SugarBowl the show goes for. But this is not the first time the show has tried to give a nice lesson only to have it veer into UnfortunateImplications and uncomfortable territory.
Bridle Gossip and Over A Barrel both did it too, with the sub-message of \\\"not a pony, not like us, not good/nice\\\". Only with the Dragons is the \\\"not good/nice\\\" part reinforced rather than debunked.
