Astralshy
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I cannot say I am in agreement with the author of that thread you were in saying the School of Friendship is a bad concept in My Little Pony, though it is an old topic, still relevant on the basis of its importance in my opinion. Friendship can be both taught and learned, it's nuanced, people need to be taught how to communicate with each other thoughtfully and respectfully for a healthy or meaningful friendship to happen, so on that principle I think at a concept level it works. It probably wasn't well thought out, I need to rewatch the show to find out, however I think there can be a valid case for its existence and it did contribute to reforming Starlight Glimmer in the show.
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I think we agree on more points than we disagree on
I also think something like the School of Friendship makes a lot of sense especially for the show FiM.
My only argument which you don't seem to share is that: When The School of Friendship would have been it's own show/movies then there would have much more time and opportunities to develop the newly characters and old characters (not only the main six).
I agree the impact of Starlight was great. This also would have been need to show more. Just like her relationship with Trixie, Maud, Sunburst etc. I like Starlight a lot. Like I also commented the Pillars .. we needed more about them.
Spike needed much more time at the end. Granted he got one episode in which got his wings and one more he got in close friendship/relationship with Gabbi. We needed some more of this. The interaction with smolder and and him have far too few.
CMC also a huge part of FiM they also deserved more time. When School of Friendship SoF would have been it's own thing they could have gotten more time and development as tutors.
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I see what you mean, that is a very good point you make.
As a matter of fact Warner did something like this with DCAU, where they divided stories about each character into their own show, Superman, Batman, Static Shock and The Zeta Project. They did this because there would not be enough screen time to do them all at once throughout their own series run.
Hasbro should have done something like this with Friendship is Magic, School of Friendship could've been done in Ponyverse without Equestria Girls being involved. This would've allowed the show to go into more detail about background character arcs without it feeling rushed, and it would have done zero to hurt that universe overall.
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