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I don't think this is a hard thing to explain at all. Right off the top of my head: something reminds Sunset Shimmer of Celestia, and then her friends pry and have to convince her to go. Maybe that's not 44 minutes, to be fair, but it's also not 5. Maybe you could still have a magic problem that Sunset needs Celestia's help to solve, but make it less complicated so we can spend more time in Equestria.

Maybe if it were a bit longer, more emotional? As is it's just like "ok, I forgive you, now let's get back to the plot." To be honest I think this reunion could have been its own story.

"Sunset's Backstage Pass" had the right idea in that it's about a friendship problem that comes from within Sunset. I think at that point you just need to tweak the details. All of the mane six have episodes where I find them annoying and unlikeable; doesn't mean I want to stop watching them. I don't remember that special very well, so I can't remember exactly what I would want to tweak, but if Equestria Girls told more stories like that they'd probably wind up with one I loved sooner or later.

Ok, a few things. 1. I typically don't watch cartoons. Even Last Airbender I think I only saw the earliest chapters as a child. So I don't think I can do a good job comparing. 2. My issues with Sunset and Starlight were not directly related to their redemptions, I just didn't really like them. I did see all of The Owl House, and Amity felt consistent and distinctive in a way that Sunset and Starlight only became at the very end. 3. Keep in mind that My Little Pony kept on going for more than two years after I posted this, and I liked these two much more in most of their stuff after this point. The short series gave Sunset every personality trait she needed, it just didn't string them together coherently. And seasons 8-9 gave Starlight some much-needed consistency.

But it doesn't mean a whole lot; it's a quick scene in a story that isn't really about it. There isn't a lot of weight to the moment. You could do something with that, but it's not meaningful for Sunset; she's already proven herself as a hero and a nice person. We already saw her make up with people she bullied in the past. There's nothing for her to learn from this scenario.

It became really obvious in season 9. They're clearly an item. Makes me wish Discord was a nicer person.

Looks like only season 1 on Netflix in Canada now. Genuinely confused as to why it's so hard to watch this show all of a sudden.

Season 9 never came to Netflix in Canada either, which meant there was no way to watch it on-demand, and it's not streaming anywhere else either. Not sure it's even available on iTunes, though cartoons are really confusing there. Crossing my fingers that all nine seasons wind up on Prime or Crave when the Netflix deal is over.

At least those mostly don't reference Friendship is Magic, so you can just put them between seasons if you like. Also, don't forget the Friendship is Magic shorts, which fit between seasons 8 and 9.

That's not really my point. I mean that Twilight & co. spent a whole season teaching her friendship and got nowhere. Starlight Glimmer was given a second chance because she showed signs of vulnerability, whereas Cozy Glow was just a cartoon villain with no redeeming qualities.

To be fair, Cozy Glow didn't seem all that interested in becoming nice. After all, they kinda *did* befriend Cozy Glow, and then the kid went and betrayed them.

Yeah, I recommend it. There were points where I honestly liked Equestria Girls more than Friendship is Magic. Honestly they're pretty similar to each other; I tend to think of them as the same show. Thankfully the art style of Equestria Girls improves as the series goes on. For whatever it's worth, every other Equestria Girls thing is better than that special.

It seems kinda fitting that people like the background ponies so much, because this show is a toy tie-in and there are way more toys than main characters. But honestly I don't get it either.

Favourite - Rainbow Rocks, but only because Holidays Unwrapped is technically a series of shorts; otherwise it would be hard to choose. Rainbow Rocks is the best of the movies, whereas Holidays Unwrapped is possibly the very best arc of the short series. I wish we got more, but at least Equestria Girls went out on a high note. Least favourite - I got basically nothing out of "Mirror Magic" or Spring Breakdown. I think I liked Spring Breakdown more but I don't remember why.

I basically agree with @Lone Traveler. The comparison to shows like Steven Universe isn't as notable in the first four seasons, because they're a really good little girls' cartoon with a little more depth and edge than you might expect. The later seasons are a bit closer to what the fantasy adventure cartoons of that time were doing, but I never felt My Little Pony was particularly good at that sort of thing; I like many of the ideas and even some episodes from seasons 5 onward, but I would not reccommend them as great television.

Wasn't he a substitute teacher at one point?

I like that she's "the smart one," and I've always found her interest in learning and her anxiety about failure more relatable than the other main characters. And the mane six are the best characters in the show, so that's saying something.

Reposting a status update from last year: The School of Friendship may have been an awkward idea but I liked it a lot because It was a much-needed change of pace for a show which I felt was stagnating and running out of ideas for its main characters. It seemed like a natural evolution of the main-six-as-teachers trend in the show, and introduced a bit more failure and uncertainty to those stories. It let Twilight work as part of an educational institution, which I had always felt was the perfect line of work for her. It served as a symbol of acceptance and let the mane six stand against xenophobia, which was a positive development in the show's depiction of non-pony species. It gave Starlight a clearer purpose in the show, which was especially nice because I felt that season was a major improvement for her characterization. The main student characters are cute.

I think there are some issues with the execution, but by season 8 I was so bored with the show that literally any gimmick would have made me happy. Well, the thing we have to remember is that the show never actually did this; seasons 8 and 9 still have more episodes about the mane six than anyone else. I really like the student characters, but the show didn't really have space to really do much with them. Ideally the mane six episodes that season would have been a little more focused on their place in the school, but I would have taken more student six material than a lot of what we got from seasons 8 and 9. I mean if the show did end somewhere around there, leading to the student six getting their own show, I wouldn't have complained. This is true, but it's a bit more complicated with the others, who all have other jobs that they don't seem to have given up. Thematically, it fits: all of the mane six had been teaching friendship for a while now, so a school is an entirely sensible evolution of that. It's just that I don't know where most of them find the time. The show was doing that long before the school came about. In fact, I think "we're letting non-ponies come to learn about friendship, even though the authorities don't approve" is a massive improvement over "we're going to foreign countries to teach non-ponies about friendship." Before, it was about getting in people's face and evangelizing. Now, it's about inclusion. "Non-Compete Clause" and "The End in Friend" both reminded me a lot of the episodes in seasons 6 and 7 where someone would be a jerk for 22 minutes until someone else finally convinced them to stop. In my mind, that's less the show actively trying to make the mane six look bad, and more the same old formula as always; it just happened that the show needed to do something with the students, so they might as well be the voice of reason this time. It was a waste of the students too. Well said on most of your points, but this here sounds like it would have been a lot of fun.

There are many things that the later seasons add that I appreciate, and I somewhat respect their higher ambition, but I still think season 2 is the best, and it's not even particularly close. It has the highest batting average of the lot for me; even the weaker episodes have some charm to them. But compared to season 1 it's also a little darker, a little more mature, a little more cohesive. The best episodes of the later seasons are different in ways I really like. My problem is the middling episodes, which are way less entertaining to me later in the show; something was lost along the way. Season 2 isn't perfect, but it's still probably the strongest this show ever was.

Season 7. I await your tomatoes. I haven't watched much of this season since 2017; there's like seven episodes in the whole season I like, and I would only say two of them reach the heights of the best of the show. So I don't quite remember why I hated this season so much, but the feeling I remember isn't anger so much as overwhelming boredom; people always name the same handful of high points but everything else felt like My Little Pony by numbers.

Not exactly; the season 9 one doesn't have a poll. It can be found here.

Those things are really cute. Even I have a couple Equestria Girls minis and I never buy official MLP merch.