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No way to tell. Insufficient clues. We can give some minimums -- there's a child, the CMC are older -- but we don't know enough else to say.

Well, then we are just at the "agree to disagree" point. When I talk with people that have seen any attempt to put a timeline down, it's consistent at about 4, 4.5 years to Twilight's school. I've seen three timelines now. Basically, the question is, was the school only open for half a year in season 8, or a full year. Re-reading the OP here ... it seems inconsistent. The OP actually has the school open for a year and a half. So that's ... ??? Now, the length of 8 and 9 ... I've seen that vary based on the timeline.

Take a look at the OP of this thread. There's a timeline that shows this timeframe. Why do you say that "most feel it's about 7 or 8 years"? I've seen very few timelines that show that length of time. Other than "one season is probably one year", you don't get that -- and we don't see anywhere near enough time-themed episodes to show that much.

Dang ... that ... Remember, re-ordering episodes across seasons is kinda required. Are we talking about "A hearths warming tale" first, and "the hearths warming club" second there? If so, the updated timeline in post 1 here has those as year 3 and year 5. (And yes, it has more than 9 months between those episodes). Don't assume "tv season" = "one year". It's about 2 tv seasons per pony year on average.

Really? How many HW Eves have we seen now? I thought we had only seen 3 on-screen.

I'd say 11, almost 12, at the end of the show. Consider that if they were all 14-15, there probably would not be any problem with going as a group on the train. Start of the show? 7. That first year (3 seasons) was when they did all the tree sap, kitchen destruction, "construction workers", etc. They grow up, but are still young enough to make some foalish mistakes.

I agree that several years have passed. I like the 4 years through season 8 view of things. Yes, the CMC need to have bigger bodies by now. Heck, the two fillies in Season 9 are apparently older than them all these years later. ... Well, ok, maybe if they were in their late teens. (I really hate tables here. There is no button on the bar for tables, nor any "reveal BBCode". So I can't do anything with them, and your post -- with text that doesn't belong in the table -- shows how painful it can be.) That's a completely different idea, and a completely different topic. It belongs in it's own thread. This is an attempt to put the episodes into chronological order, different from air-date order.

Things that I'd like to see here: 1. The idea of "one moon = one moon phase = one week", which apparently fits most of the episodes from season 4 until the bleeping last 3 :-). Take this into account when dating things, and keep in mind that Granny Smith probably has memory faults. :-) 2. Some reference to other places/sites that are doing this sort of timeline attempt. I'd like to see a comparison of how the different timelines compare to each other. (The "moon = week" people came up with a 7 year timeline for the series, which I suspect is just too long -- the CMC would be much, much older by the end if that were the case. See https://docs.google.com/document/d/12Nf6WRf5vhQf72oWdq3F6YoNORrw7xmcx7vi0vYSWnQ/edit -- note that they are 4 years to the middle of season 7 with a large amount of "nothing happens here" time gaps in the ending period)

So we've finished all the episodes. Care to do some more theorizing?

Just not reasonable. There are plenty of references to season of the year, etc, in the show, and it is not, cannot be, one year per season. Keep in mind, we originally had "one letter per week", and 52 shows initially. And we've got a timeline that basically puts the first three seasons (52 episodes) in just over a year if I recall correctly. (rechecks) Yep. What evidence do you have for "one season = one year"? Consider that this would mean the CMC are now 8 years older than when they first appeared, which would be fully grown -- they are still half-pints. (I think 7 going on 8 in year one, and 11 going on 12 in the last season. That lets them attend hogwarts as 11-year-olds after the show :-)

Cronology Crabgrass! The first 10 seconds of this new episode: How many seasons of show have just been turned into a single year to say that there is only the current team of buckball players from Ponyville in the hall of fame?

First, thank you for this detail. Second, S8 is basically one school year at a much less frequent rate of episodes (instead of 30-50 episodes in a year, it's about 25). This timeline gives us about 4 years for the full series so far, and does so nicely, only at the expense of a significantly higher rate of episode shuffling / season border crossing. It might help a bit if you make the year separations significantly more clear. What I see: Year 1 is seasons 1-3. Year 2 is seasons 4-5. The end of 5/start of 6 is a little muddled ("little"? ha). Season 6/7 is a little more than year 3, also a bit of year 4 (basically all of the summer vacation), leaving season 8 starting at the start of the school year 4. I like this. If the CMC's have the "late birthday curse", they would be 7 going on 8 at the start of the series, and then 11 going on 12 at the end of 8. These would be like children whose birthday is just after the deadline, who feel like they are a year behind other children in school. Yea. End of season 8, 11 going on 12, wanting to study more advanced magic ...

Oh. Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. http://hpmor.com/ Basic idea: What if Lily's sister did not married Mr. Dursley, but instead married a scientist. Baby Harry was raised in a scientific household, instead of ... In other words, a look at the premise of the story from the viewpoint of everyone being sane and rational, with no one holding the idiot ball. This does not mean no bad judgments, or bad decisions.

Thank you.

I wanted to know if anybody had written / knew of a "Harry Potter and the methods of rationality" style treatment of Equestria Girls (specifically the movies, I have not seen the series itself yet). You know, answering such questions as where does Sunset Shimmer live, or why she's the only one without a duplicate.