Skytower

One thing about the series ending is that the fan fic can take off. When Star Trek went off the air the fan fic became so good and numerous that the best of it was collected and published in book form. I can see the same thing happening with MLP.

I think we should remember that we've seen very little of the human world that hold Canterlot High. It's a planet after all, and magic may exist in various corners of it. In Friendship Games we saw that Twilight didn't discount the idea of magic being behind everything going on, nor did Cinch. Neither of them -especially the human Twilight who is a scientist- that magic does not exist. The difference may be that Equestrian Magic is like an invasive species of plant, one without the natural checks and balances that exist for native magic. Equestria has magic all over the place and it's not chaotic (Discord aside), but it's taken for granted like any natural resource. As for putting kids in danger... I would have loved for magical danger to replace the physical danger I went through in high school. Give me a monster plant from another dimension anytime rather than the monsters who roamed the halls where I went to school.

Sunset I think. She's the most intriguing, being born in another world and another body and her brush with the darkest part of herself. Human Twilight comes close to that as well, but she was still born human.

I'd like to see some focus on her early days and how she adjusted to life as a human. Flashbacks would be good.

In a way they are faced with the Star Trek problem. DS9 could not be Next Generation, Voyager could not be DS9 or Next Generation.

One problem is how do you do an Equestria Girls' series without copying a lot of the stuff that's already been done in MLP? The characters are basically the same, albeit in different bodies. There are of course differences between Equestria and Earth and the characters ages and circumstances, but how do you take that and make it original? The human Twilight can not be put into the same situations as the pony Twilight, (I don't think King Sombra, T-reck or any of the villains could show up at CHS without someone in the government noticing), They could move everyone into college but again it wouldn't be quite the same. If it is going to succeed Equestria Girls has to be it's own show.

Not with the bandwidth I can afford plus my old computer. Youtube can come out broken up a lot. I think so, I'm hoping they'll get the movie.

Which means I can watch it again. Had to downshift the cable last year and haven't been able to watch MLP since.

Midnight Sparkle's main drive was curiosity, not power. That makes her more intriguing to me. She didn't want to conquer Equestria, she just wanted to learn about magic. Who knows where that would have gone.

Out there I know, but I had to downsize my cable system a while back and lost MLP, but gained Disney (and saved enough money for food, very important in my calculations, also I hope that Netflix will pick up the season that I am missing), and I've been enjoying the Ducktales reboot (David Tenent and Catherine Tate have a lot of fun with the voices). I wondered how Sunset ,who herself comes from a world where ponies and other animals have intelligence, would view a show like Ducktales or any of the other animals-as-human-like, especially as the friendship between Webby and Lena very much showcases the friendship is magic dynamic. You could have pulled Lena's actions in the finale from an episode of MLP.

I thought it was nice at the end when Spike hops on Twilight's back and Twilight pointed out that she doesn't have to carry him anymore. That is a good way of saying that their relationship will be changing as he grows older.

Bearing in mind that we still don't know where Spike actually came from and what type of dragon he is I think this worked. I thought Twilight's reaction a bit off, but from her point of view Spike was a fire hazard and there are lot of books around. I can easily see how Spike or Twilight wouldn't have heard of this from Ember or Smolder as puberty is more often mocked in society then take seriously and it's never really discussed openly. That would go double for a society like the dragons. I get the feeling that the male dragons are kicked out, but are allowed back in once the molting passed. Sort of like a walkabout test of maturity.

What nearly everyone thinks of me: He's a bit odd, but harmless.

Sounds like a good spot for a vacation to me I'd take battling demons over wrestling with a 1040 form any day.

Spike can talk and now has human level of intelligence, or is at least as smart as Spike the dragon who'd able to read and right. There's a lot to explore here even in the limited setting of the show's format. For instance if he got lost would he ask someone for directions or be too scared too. The students at CHS don't seem to find much strange about a talking dog (but as Spike said a talking dog is not really crazy if you go on everything else that is going on), but I can imagine many others would. His relationship with Twilight... Now that he can talk does he take on the role that Spike the dragon does? That of an assistant/housekeeper/confidant or something else. When you come right down to it Spike isn't a full dog anymore, but he's not human either. How long before the essential parts of a dogs life -sleeping, chasing squirrels...- become boring too him? Will he immerse himself in tv? The internet? Books?

I've got no way to see it right now, but if I start watching season 8 would I miss too much or spoil to much from the movie?

It could also explain why Sunset Shimmer had no trouble slipping into the CHS world. Maybe the place she's living is owned by the Shimmers.

In the ancient days when I was watching Saturday morning cartoons one of the staples of shows was of kids getting lost in other worlds and trying to find their way back home. From the Hanna Barbara's Shazan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shazzan , The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn and Josie and the Pussycats in outer Space http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068088/ all the way up to the Dungeons and Dragons http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085011/ , the theme of each show was getting home somehow. It would be interesting to have a show featuring the human Sunset wandering around Equestria trying to find a way back to Earth. It'd have to be far from the known lands of Equestria and she'd have had to stumble through an unknown portal since going through the one we all know would have put her into Celestia's castle. This could also explain where her parents are, not knowing that she's in another world they could be searching the world of CHS to find her.

Pinki has a special relationship with reality

I was thinking about this after Forgotten Friendship. We've now at had at least 5 beings from Equestria go through the portal and at least 4 of them have stayed. If anyone from the human world used a similar type of portal or the same portal would we even know about them? Maybe a student from CHS wandered through the portal, or fell through during Friendship Games and just decided to stay and blend into the background, much as Sunset Shimmer decided to stay in the world of CHS. Euqestria could have a transformed human wandering around and no one would know.

The main problem with EG is that they've taken the characters and limited them. In Equestria these characters have taken on major foes, Discord, Changlings, T-Rec... none of which can have the equivalent in the CHS world. In Equestria the cast can go anywhere in that world, in the world of CHS they don't have that freedom (except for Sunset the others all have parents) so you are stuck with high school stories. That can work, but only on a limited basis. I'm amazed that no parent showed up after the first two demon transformations and the Dazzlings attack. A battle like the one she had with T-rec would take out a few city blocks at least and that wouldn't be so easy to ignore. Equestria is a land of open adventure, the world of CHS is high school. By the way, I miss WITCH.

I wonder what the Dazzling's called it.

I think that the inhabitants of that world -like us- would just call it Earth. After all except for a very few it's the only world they know. For myself I've been calling it the CHS world.

Yea, but we don't really know about how the portal matches up temporally with the CHS world. It was noted that the Dazzlings were sent through the portal ages ago, but they were still teenagers when Rainbow Rocks occurred. It's easier to hate one person than an entire school. The more you can focus, the easier it is for negative feelings to grown. If Twilight had been at CHS instead of Sunset then I think Twilight would have been the target. I think anyone who was popular would have been the focus of Wallflower's anger. I don't think we've focused on it yet, but I think it's pretty good that Wallflower was able to decipher Clover the Clever's writings on the stone. I can't imagine why'd he'd leave instructions with the thing, thats really a bad move on his(?) part.

I don't think we can really hold it against Clover leaving the stone in what at the time probably was a very empty place. CHS is located in a surburban setting, go back two or three hundred years and most suburbs and the cities they are now attached to weren't there. It was most likely an empty forrest save for a few native Americans.