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Oh wow did I really say that? I must have been tired. What I meant to say was "I believe the human world can be built on its own outside of its tie to Equestria for fantastical elements." The human world doesn't need to be tied to Equestria to seem extraordinary, it can just basically do everything conceivable in our world that doesn't involve magic. Half the enemies Superman and Batman face don't involve magic or a complete butchering of the laws of reality.

They can do this by making the exploring the human world and making it interesting in its own way outside of the fantastical elements.

Songco was hired to be a story editor on the CBS sitcom "The Great Indoors". I think Lewis is a writer for that show as well. I don't think either of them would have the time or even want to bother going back to writing for low budget toy commercials.

How do we know it isn't someone who needs Twilight's help in a conflict that Twilight wouldn't want to get involved in in the first place? That would be more interesting than just having it be a villain. But this is pretty stupid overall. He builds up this entire theory and then jumps to conclusions at the end.

Video game animated series have a decent track record though. MLP doesn't need to drastically change itself to start taking inspiration from Mario, heck most of it would just come in the form of way more interesting new locations and gimmicks (i.e. the toy stuff Hasbro forces into the show, The Cutie Map). The slice of life plots could be left the same, the characters can still be the focus since it is the biggest strength MLP has over Mario. The Mario influence should really only take hold on action/adventure episodes.

It would probably better play to the strengths of the series and what it is trying to accomplish. In many ways Mario shares a lot of similarities with MLP on a surface level. The character design, world design, tone, and audiences are similar. There is also the element of "a story built around a gimmick" that exists in both series. It is able to work past many problems MLP has with revolving staff, "anything goes" world design, world building, gimmick integration. Yes, Mario is a game, but the way it often tells its stories is still similar enough that it can be compared to MLP (the box in Season 4 feels very much like a Mario story concept), and there are many times where the plot is MORE than just Peach getting kidnapped like Sunshine, Galaxy 1, or any of the RPG games. I feel the biggest hurdle is that the writers and artists at DHX as well as the toy designers and Hasbro execs may not care enough to get creative to come up with interesting ideas and interesting executions of them to make this work.

But without magic the villain would have been powerless. Wouldn't it have been better to have a villain originally from Earth that didn't use magic be stopped by magic to show that they do need magic after all?

Don't you see the world purposefully trying to be mundane as kind of a problem?

I guess for them, since the EQG world seems to only use technology as a minor characteristic of its setting. It kind of shows that EQG tries too hard to be normal and winds up being a less interesting version of our world. Oh and in case you think somehow robots would suddenly make their world not resemble ours, please understand that this exists. But you are right, if the series is moving away from exploring how the mane cast would live in a normal world to another superhero esque series.

Robots and advanced AI systems wouldn't be fantastical.

I guess you got that already because you were talking about Filthy Rich building death bots.

But the biggest way they can differ the two series is make it more Sci-Fi based rather than constantly relying on magic, I mean technology basically is our equivalent to magic so I don't see why it wouldn't work.

It really isn't a good argument as I can do it too, there are some good points in 06 it is just bogged down by glitches and an overly ambitious goal.

I don't necessarily mean that the series needs to have boring high school drama as a focus nor do I mean that the tie to Equestria should be gone completely due to how important of a role magic plays in this series, but I do think the series should start introducing conflicts and villains from its own world. We know so little about the EQG world that we don't know much about it besides the fact that it resembles ours and doesn't have magic (or at least not Equestrian magic), so there is so much potential to explore what that world has to offer. Robots, mutants, crazy lab experiments, aliens, and Pokémon-esque monsters could exist in their world. Relying on the tie to Equestria to provide any interesting conflict only serves to make the EQG world look so dull and prevents it from having more of its own identity.

Tried to do a realistic human world and made it boring in the process Characters are more subdued to make them more serious Anything that isn't subdued about a character is overly flanderized Cutscenes have awkward pacing, as if any snappy dialogue and more cuts would be less realistic or serious Forces a boring, human love interest onto the main character Introduces a rival to the main character which becomes the most memorable thing about it Forces us to care about a new location despite not giving us much of a reason to do so Despite it claiming to be separate from the original franchise it requires you to be knowledgeable about the world and characters to understand what is going on

It really wouldn't matter much to me, it would just be very awkward now that Equestria Girls was introduced. Admittedly I would find it more interesting if the humans just lived like we do.

Danny Phantom, Avatar, Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack, and Courage the was rated TV-Y7 and those had way more action than Legend of Everfree.

You know they could just put her in prison instead.

I am happy with everything said in the OP, but I would like to see Twilight learning to become a princess more and possibly learning friendship lessons again, Spike actually doing something with his desire to be a superhero or a knight, and more action/adventure episodes.

I want the show to run way longer, especially now that the Guardians of Harmony toyline that is pretty cool, I would like them to keep the show running so that toyline can keep introducing crazy new concepts. Just because the show COULD have a satisfying ending now, doesn't mean it has to.

Ehh I found it pretty darn boring, there is little character development outside of Twilight worrying about Midnight Sparkle, Flash getting over his relationship with Twilight, and the romance between Timber and Twilight. The fight scene with the vines is pretty cool, and I do like the scene where they fight the vines and take down Gloriosa, but it seems like the movie is doing everything it can to reach its running time.

I would prefer they didn't, it would be difficult to take the series seriously trying to believe that they are even trying to keep their magic secret anymore.

https://mlpforums.com/topic/151147-could-eqg-work-without-magic-being-the-source-of-the-conflict/ I even made my own thread about the issue, since I think it could totally work especially after It would likely require the series to resort to sci-fi and science fantasy for its supernatural villains, but other than that there really isn't a reason the series needs to keep its connection to Equestria as a major plot point at all other than the writers being uncreative or Hasbro insisting it on them. I even challenged myself to come up with a plot that would follow the typical Equestria Girls formula, but feature no magic in it. It can be done, it is a little difficult though.

I don't think the characters will graduate next film even though they should. I recall seeing several sources claiming that EQG was going to have 6 installments. I'd personally love if Hasbro was ballzy enough to have the characters graduate into college, even moreso if not the entire cast goes and graduates and we just follow part of the original cast into college.

There is no teen activity as the focus, so it will never be used as a plot, also it seems a little packed to be a plot for EQG. I will always want a villain that DOESN'T use magic (or at least not at first) or is something from their world. I really think it would be fun if Equestria Girls had sci-fi elements in it.