This blog (for now) will cover the first five seasons in Netflix order (One Season per Entry) and WILL assume you've seen all the episodes therein. Spoilers WILL NOT be covered.

Now while I'm currently making a different blog that list which episodes give focus to two given characters, I'm making this blog you're reading as a way to list the episodes and which one or two characters are in the episode's spotlight. I'll provide a paragraph that sometimes summarizes the episode, but mostly states why I choose the character(s) in question (or answer, considering they get the slots)

Here's are the official rules I set for myself:

• To be in the spotlight, a character must either:
  • be the one with a lesson to learn. (Example: Twilight in Season 4's Testing Testing, 1,2,3. She learns there is more than one way of studying)
  • be the ones we the viewers follow throughout the episode (Ex: In Season 5's Party Pooped, Pinkie Pie journeys to Yakyakistan, while Twilight Sparkle tries to keep the visiting Yaks calm back in Ponyville.)
  • be part of character interactions where character in question has their characteristics work off another character. (Ex: many of the 2-pony episodes like the Season 5 "Map" episodes)
  • be a reformed villain who becomes a recruiting character. Recruiting means the character must have played a role in at least 3 episodes. In cases like these, their debut episodes where they were full villains count as a spotlight for them. For now, the two big ones are Discord and Starlight Glimmer. Minor Villains like Gilda and Trixie are in the spotlight, but likely won't get the character slot.
    

  [*]There will be a character slot for one or two characters, NOT more. [*]The Mane 6 and the Cutie Mark Crusaders can each be treated as one character when they're together. [*]The challenge for me is when I do episodes where the spotlight is most certainly on 3 characters. I have to debate which 2 of the 3 characters get the slot.
  

I'll make an bonus entry that will talk more about the episodes that contain a 3-way character focus.

Enough about that, I must soon get the first entry up: List of FiM Episodes Season 1