@ender1200
Point being that he was a good enough guy to actually feel bad for causing a health hazard for the ponies. He could’ve ignored Fluttershy still
(unless we’re gonna go along with the notion that she really, really can bend adult dragons to her will, but I prefer to think that episode’s point was more about her bravery for her friends’ sake).
@Trickquestion
I think the implications were more “teenager are assholes” in Dragon Quest, seeing how it’s explicitly stated that the dragons spike hang out with are teens.
@Amethyst_Crystal
But it’s a know situation that gryphons mix with pegasus. If rainbow dash meet gilda at Junior Speedsters flight camp it mean that gryphon are admitted by equestria’s administration. But about dragon, Fluttershy was badly afraid about just watching them (even more than usual) despite having already meet spike and solve the dragonshy situation by talking.
@boz
In both episodes, Spike was hanging out with a small group of dragons who turned out to be jerks. Except Gen 1 actually realized, “hey, maybe one group of assholes isn’t indicative of the morality of an entire species.”
Getting real sloppy when Gen 1 manages to top you in the writing department.
At least Spike search episode ended on a hopeful note about finding good dragons in the future, dragon quest seemed okay with leaving the implication that spike might be the only good dragon with the one in dragonshy.