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I won't mind if Starlight will be frequently seen in the season but the one episode I can see working within this season is Starlight reuniting with Sunburst. Might seem like a rehash of Amending Fences but I won't mind if the plot was changed up a bit to fit Starlight's growth as a character.

I agree with the episode layout but maybe we don't really need a moral for this episode. Think of it like the Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000 episode and Applejack's narration of her "friendship lesson;" even if she didn't learn anything, she could still reiterate something important that she is reminded of during the duration of the episode. My only concern is that if a Celestia episode did this, it may end up repeating the moral of that episode. Who knows? Maybe it will happen, maybe it won't.

It might but I'm just asking about season 5, that's all.

So I am late coming into this but I need some time to finish the finale before posting this but what do you guys think about Season 5 as a whole? The writing, the music, the overall quality of this season? I'd say this wasn't too bad of a season, a few episodes a little difficult to stomach but it still had some gems.

This is interesting and as much as I would like Starlight to stay a villain, I want to see how this turns out. She works as a villain because she's different. She doesn't operate like the typical villains we've seen in the show's season premiers and finales and her motives are still unclear (yeah, there's the equality ideology but it still somehow feels incomplete) and there is still more to explore about her reasons for wanting everyone to be equal. There's still the season finale to look forward to and I am hoping it will give Starlight's character more substance. My only concern about this is that I don't know whether or not this will become canon simply because I don't think the books are canon to the show. I mean, sure, the Pie family's names were first mentioned in one of G.M. Berrow's chapter books and it was later adapted to into the recent Hearthswarming episode but beyond that, nothing else from the books show up. Then again, that trend may change given this book's release date is still in 2016 or maybe this is book will serve as a followup to the finale. Either way, I'll wait till this episode is aired before I give my thoughts about it. Don't want to give myself some expectations or hype and then be disappointed in the end.

The hiatus as a factor? I'd say it is but it may not be the only reason why there is a decline. The impression I'm getting from the wording is that the girls' brand is dropping as a whole and there appears to be more emphasis on Equestria Girls over Friendship is Magic. Don't get me wrong, but this drop is likely happening since there are other franchises competing and it's near the Christmas season so there's bound to be more competition around that time. Fluctuations in sales happen and it can bounce back when Christmas comes.