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Agreed. They raised the bar VEEERRY high with the Generation 4 interpretation of Tirek. Where do you go from that? This considered, I'm going to suggest two events that could make for season 5 and season 6 finales, respectively. Event one: Return of Grogar the Necromancer Let's face it, underneath that villainary awesomeness that is Tirek lies the plausible suggestion that Hasbro and the MLP Crew are short on ideas. So G1 was able to provide. I really didn't pay attention to ANYTHING before G4, because BARF!! But I understand that apart from Tirek, Grogar was viewed as a pretty menacing villain of that era. If I have read correct, "The Crystal Empire" parts 1 & 2 are pretty much "The Return of Tambelon" rewritten, kinda like how "The Mare in the Moon" and "The Elements of Harmony" have elements of "Rescue at Midnight Castle" in their plotline. So the story of Tambelon can't be retold the same way, but I think the idea of having Grogar return and use his necromancy for a grab for power of some description is a possibility. I'm gonna say it, now that I've mentioned "The Crystal Empire" and raising the dead - Sombra returns under Grogars control. It could happen. That, or he resurrects Starswirl to the dismay of Scorpan. OR, they just make him another powerful wizard that the 6 have to defeat. Event two: The Great War of Equestria You know what, the hell with it. If My Little Pony, Friendship is Magic were to end after a 6th season, let it end with the biggest event of Equestrian history. Or save this idea for the very end of the show, whenever it happens to be. As Twilights role as Princess of Friendship (I think Princess of Harmony would have sounded better, but oh well) becomes more significant, I would like to see more of what goes on in Equestrian politics. I want to see one of two situations. A large army of a distant region of their world moving in to conqure Equestria and the defence force is a combination of the Canterlot and Crystal Empire royal guard as the ground troops, the Wonderbolts of Cloudsdale and possibly some resident dragons as the airforce and Twilights role, of course, is to settle the conflict at the final climax of the episode with the help of her friends. The second situation is a much darker option. Through either influence of a greater power, political disagreement between the 3 breeds or some other push, some form of divide or schism between Earth Ponies, Pegasi and Unicorns occur. The split between races worsens into a state of war. Feeling powerless to put a stop to the quarrel, the Alicorn Princesses either flee or lock themselves in safe houses. OR they are imprisoned just for refusing to be involved in such a quarrel. Ponyville has now become involved and now Twilight is stuck right in the middle. And when things seem bad, it gets worse when her friends are pressured into siding with their respective race. Twilight, being an Alicorn, is at a loose end as she can neither pick a side, nor does she want to. When her friends leave her behind for the sake of the war, she remains in the castle devistated, heartbroken, upset and alone. Alone, except for Spike, her loyal assistant and longest time friend, and Discord, who I think should be the one to now give the friendly advice and reasurrance that she needs in this time of crisis. With the help of Discord, Twilight manages to free/find the other alicorn princesses and kidnap her friends who now hate eachother due to the influence of the war. It takes a group effort from all four Alicorns, Discord and Spike to remind them of what is really important. Twilight has the last word of wisdom and lives up to her new title, reminding her friends of why they're friends and what makes their friendship important. When the 6 are finally reunited as friends, they engage their rainbow power for one last time and bring peace to equestria once more. Ok, I'm a very dark person, let's just move on to my last few hopes for the upcoming season... Discord is now a regular reccuring character, a background character or has a central role to the Mane 6's season 5 adventures. No more "Discord, the Plot Device", spank you very much. And give him an episode with Twilight and an episode with Fluttershy. More interaction between Pinkie and AJ, Rarity and AJ, some interaction between Rarity and RD and some Twilight and Rarity interaction. Babs Seed in future CMC episodes MOAR SPIKE EPISODES!!! Preferably ones that don't make him look or feel useless. And everybody likes Sparity episodes, Moar Sparity!! Now with Twilight being a Princess, Ponyville residents are probably gonna come to her for friendship advice. How about an episode that consists of 6 tales of background ponies taking their problems to Twilight to be resolved, then ending the episode off with Twilights reflection of the day. One off situation where Twilight and the other Princesses have to travel to Tartarus and interrogate Tirek for information on the season 5 villain. That's my spin over.

Here is a thought, just a thought......... Do we remember the "Dragon Fluttershy" speculation for season 3? Didn't happen, but Tabitha's slip of the tongue left that thought in our heads for a bit. Up until the point that the whole alicorn buisness went down and left our favourite purple friend with a whole new set of awesome powers. So my prediction/spin is........... Twilight turns Fluttershy into a dragon when testing out her new powers. Whether or not it be by accident or not, but possibly by trying a spell out to fix Fluttershy's fear of dragons and getting it wrong in the process. Now I don't expect that it will happen, but it's a pretty neat idea.