Let me try to clear things up here...
First of all this is a really interesting thread (not counting some of the replies back then...)
First of all, what jansenov said three years ago is quite true... the bond between Ducky and Spike is undoubtedly stronger than the bond between any other characters. And they DO spend a lot of time together. You seldom see Ducky riding on Littlefoot or Cera, do you?
I can see where you're coming from, Bruton, and I do get what problem you have with it. However, I think you might have misinterpreted jansenov's words a little. Surely he didn't mean to say that Ducky and Spike HAVE to do everything together and spent their whole life together and he surely didn't think of Spike and Ducky as dinosaurs without individuality. In fact, Ducky and Spike are very different from each other. It's true that they often share their opinion or rely on the opinion of the other sibling but they're not acting like some sort of synchronised double character or whatever you wanna call that
It's scenes like the one you mentioned a long time ago in LBT 8 where Ducky does not do things with Spike together but asks Cera for advice on dealing with annoying siblings
Did that clear up things, Bruton?
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Now here's an actual reply to some of the earlier posts of this thread and its original subject of discussion
Despite being a supporter of the DuckyxPetrie pairing, I have to say that Spike (at least in the movies and series, fanfictions are a different area
) is more devoted to Ducky than Petrie is. It is true that the bond between Ducky and Petrie is stronger than the bond between any other main characters but the bond between Ducky and Spike is a special case.
As many have stated years ago, Ducky and Spike are siblings and therefore have a very special and strong connection and (brotherly/sisterly) love for each other. Ducky and Petrie on the other hand, are just (very close) friends but that's about it.
My personal take on the scene where the Gang finds Ducky in LBT 7 is as follows:
There are a few reasons why Spike is the first to run to Ducky.
1. He's her brother. As I've discussed above, his love and care of Ducky exceeds the love and care for her of everybody else easily. Look how agitated and sad he was when Ducky was gone? Usually he's never the one to take action first (unless it's about food
) but in LBT 7 he totally is! Besides, did you ever see Spike cry before that? (I know he cried in 11 but so did Ducky and Petrie). Petrie didn't cry for Ducky when she was kidnapped. Yes, he obviously didn't not care about it but he wasn't as downcast as Spike.
However, to be fair, you can see that Petrie really does care a lot about Ducky too. Despite being the scare-dy egg he is, he gathered all his bravery and confronted his uncle and his two evil companions and almost died trying to save Ducky. Just to look at this from the other side...
2. Petrie may have been somewhat hesitant to approach Ducky because of the guilt he felt. After all, it was all his fault that Ducky was captured. Had he not told Pterano of the location of the Stone of Cold Fire (or rather, had he not asked Littlefoot about it
), Pterano, Rinkus and Sierra wouldn't have been making plans in the middle of the night and Ducky wouldn't have had any reason to be so upset about the argument between Petrie and the Gang that kept her awake and ultimately urged her to take a noctural walk to find Petrie only to bump into said flyers...
I think Petrie was a little worried Ducky would blame him (as unlikely as it is for Ducky to actually go as far as blaming somebody, LBT 8 is probably the only exception
) and therefore stayed back.
3. Spike was simply faster than Petrie
Okay, maybe not...
The scene right before "Good Inside" shows that they are very good friends as well but ultimately, Spike is the one Ducky is closest to
