Flutterstep

I've finally been catching up with MLP! Well, Equestria Girls. I don't think I'll ever finish the pony show.  Equestria Girls has to be one of the most confusing shows to navigate. After four movies and some shorts, you have a special, which is actually three normal episodes. It could have just been a movie.  Well, we get to see the Shadowbolts return, but no Indigo Zap sadly, since her voice actor wasn't available. Oh well, at least we got to see Starlight Glimmer make an appearance, who has the same voice actor as Indigo Zap... wait, why was she absent again? 

Then there's the Summertime shorts, followed by two seasons! Imagine my disappointment finding out the seasons are also shorts and not full length episodes.  They're still great however. The Choose Your Own Ending shorts are too, although they seem to be missing from YouTube because of legal issues, so you just have to find random uploads where there's long awkward pauses. Speaking of which, the official MLP YouTube has uploaded some, mixed in with other shorts, but they're even more strange; you'll get the original video, followed by a few shorts, then eventually get the choices, or sometimes you don't even get any. 

Regardless, this is an awesome show. I think I prefer it to the pony show in all honesty. The concept alone is interesting, but the characters are so much more likable. Pinkie is less annoying, Rainbow isn't as rude, Fluttershy is braver, Twilight isn't the main focus and feels more part of a group, Rarity is Rarity, Applejack stands out more and Sunset is an awesome addition. 

I might take a break for now before watching the rest of the specials. I've heard that the show doesn't have a true conclusion, but I've also heard that the pony show has a bad, or at least, a mixed ending, so, is it not better to keep it open ended?  The original human Sunset could be trapped in a paradox and needs to be set free with pony Sunset finally leaving her friends to forever live in the pony universe and taking all the magic with her... or human Sunset is totally fine, living a nice life without even knowing of the situation and everyone is happy. The sky's the limit! I'm just happy this show exists at all.

MLP is already such a niche show for us older watchers, so a spin-off of that is super exclusive, especially with how awkward it is to navigate, as stated earlier. Equestria Girls could have been such a disaster, but it's something so special. It's a shame many people didn't give it a chance after the first movie. There's so much to like and I'm grateful for all the fans that still create art, stories and mods for such a show.