Would you have closure if Equestria Girls ended as a Trilogy?

[SolyWack 482]

I'm not saying would you want EQG to end. NO ONE wants that. But if for some reason EQG was not going to have another movie, would you accept it?

 

Would you have proper closure for Sunny, or human Twilight, or the human world in general? Or do you feel like it didn't end properly, and needs another movie if it's going to end?

[Megas 27,640]

Nah, I wouldn't be satisfied until we get a series, even if it's just 12 eps to a season long. I've grown to enjoy Humanland

Edited September 27, 2015 by LAZENGANN OVERLOAD

[Singe 2,111]

A proper closure should involve addressing the nature of Equestrian magic being a major problem getting out of control for the past three movies. Mane 6 are not able to prevent it.

 

Princess Celestia after listening to a summary of the past movie events decides that Equestrian magic is too dangerous to leave in a world like that, wants to remove all traces of it from it, and seal the portal. 

 

Long awaited Princess Celestia and Sunset Shimmer confrontation.

Edited September 27, 2015 by Singe

[chirox the pony 1,336]

If they solve the magic problem then maybe. Though to be fair if it did end here I wouldn't mind. 

[Ashen Pathfinder 16,161]

I would've had closure, and that is largely because Equestria Girls has been a story about the fall and redemption of Sunset Shimmer. That story arc has now closed and if EqG were to end I would be fine.

 

However Sunset Shimmer is TOO GOOD of a character to let sit by and probably only rely on comic entries. She needs more; heck human Twilight needs more and there is still the question of that world's Sunset Shimmer.

 

Honestly EqG in general needs more.

[GXPBlast 597]

I'm not saying would you want EQG to end. NO ONE wants that. But if for some reason EQG was not going to have another movie, would you accept it?

 

Would you have proper closure for Sunny, or human Twilight, or the human world in general? Or do you feel like it didn't end properly, and needs another movie if it's going to end?

 

Actually I want the series to end so Hasbro can dedicate their time to only ponies. Equestria girls has a great story I must admit, but I dont like how the worlds are interconnects which can mess up the MLP progression and cause some confusion at least in my opinion.

 

Plus despite Equestria Girls being a series with decent plot, I still feel like I am watching another typical girly high school series like Bratz and Monster High.

Edited September 27, 2015 by GXPBlast

[GuyNamedEarl 1,332]

No. They have so much content set up for a TV series. They have two schools and a bunch of interesting characters. I could see him doing something later and marketing it to older kids and teens, so that the kids who grew up with MLP would still be interested as they grow up. Kind of like all grown up did with rug rats (except all grown up sucked.)

[Best Pony 83]

Hasbro said they're committed to Equestria Girls until 2017 like My Little Pony. Of course, this will depend on toy sales.

 

For closure, I'd want to see the Equestria Girls cross into the portal to Meet with the Mane 6 in Equestria.and vice versa. Seeing Rainbow, Pinkie, Fluttershy, Rarity, Applejack cope with hooves/hands on either side would be hilarious like Twilight.

[Shimmer Down 668]

Honestly, I'd probably be pretty OK if we were done with EQG. I'd be sad if we never saw Sunny again, but let's think about it a second.

 

The EQG series is 100% about Sunset Shimmer as a character. It's about Wrong-Doing, Repentance and Redemption.

 

Whoops. Wrote a TON. Spoiler'd for length.

 

 

In the first movie, you have Sunset Shimmer as the villain. Now I have a ton of nitpicks about why the story in EQG1 is contrived, convoluted and catastrophic at best, but let's ignore that for a minute.

 

~Equestria Girls~

EQG1 introduces Sunset Shimmer as a former apprentice of Celestia (similar to Twilight's position, pre-Alicornication, though you can debate that she's still an apprentice). Sunny, like many good-turned-evil apprentices, got frustrated when the magic required patience and practice instead of immediate gratification. She left Celestia's side and all of Equestria of her own accord, found a new world where she could manipulate people into doing what she wanted. She decided that coupling this with Equestrian magic would allow her to invade Equestria take over, and most importantly, upstage Celestia and prove that you can get what you want with cruelty and cunning.

 

Then Twilight shows up, blah blah, Magic of Friendship, big rainbow laser, villain KO'd, gg no re.

 

The important thing to take away from EQG1 was that, Sunset Shimmer was offered a chance to repent for her sins. She'd done horrible, nasty, awful things and the HuMane 5 took her in as one of their own. This becomes more relevant when we get to...

 

~Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rocks~

In EQG2 we're quickly shown two things: 1) Sunset Shimmer and the HuMane 5 are getting along swimmingly, and 2) Sunset Shimmer and the students of Caterlot High School are NOT getting along swimmingly.

 

At the beginning of Rainbow Rocks, it's very clear that not a whole lot of time has passed since the Fall Formal, and most of the school still outwardly blames Sunset Shimmer for being a heinous bitch. This is in spite of all the work that was done in the first move to show CHS that coming together as a school benefits everyone and the school as a whole. She's an outcast amongst an entire student body that banded together in a crisis situation.

 

Even among friends, things seem a little off. Beginning with the first in-character song, Sunset is seen sitting off to the sidelines while the HuMane 5 (and Twilight) rock out. While they may have accepted her into their circle, it's Sunset that seems a little shy about getting close to them. She still feels like she has a lot to repent for after the Fall Formal (see her reaction to the multiple uses of "no offense") and that the whole school is doing a great job at reminding her of that, including her friends.

 

Regardless of this fact, and the constant taunting by the Sirens, Sunny busts her flank to maintain that she's changed and all she wants to do is help, even going so far as to jump Rainbow Dash mid-solo to keep their magic hidden (let's be honest, if anyone was gonna screw it up for the group, it was gonna be Dash). This is seen as an affront to the group dynamic and the friends that she'd been working to hard to keep. It's only near the movie's climax that Sunset Shimmer, the outlier of this group of tight-knit friends notices that there's something incredibly wrong. She's been shown friendship and is beginning to understand it, enough so that she knows that disagreements happen, but bickering to the point of breaking up the band is NOT friendship. It's conflict, something that a former villain understands all to well. Something that Sunset Shimmer originally placed between these friends in the first place.

 

This is her repentance. She was the one to originally break apart this group of friends. Now she has her chance to reunite them and remind them all what friendship, a concept they taught her, is really about. Then we enter the climax. Even when Sunny saves the band, and Vinyl saves the show, Sunset Shimmer is still backstage, behind the curtain, wishing all her friends luck. She still doesn't consider herself good enough to be a part of the band. She's reminded them about their friendship and that's good enough for her. Except it wasn't good enough to save the day...

 

But when the going gets tough, the tough take off their leather jackets and belt out a few bars! When Sunny steps up to the mic, it's the first time she's really participated in a group activity with the HuMane 5 (+ Twilight). She's completed her rite of passage to truly be one of the girls, signified by her Pony-ing Up for the first time. The Rainbow Laser of Friendship also solidifies this by adding Sunny's color (Red, because Orange was already taken by AJ) to the spectrum, turning into a giant Rainbow Alicorn and saving the day.

 

Immediately following their victory, the HuMane 5 ask Sunny to join the band. In this scene we can finally see that she's forgiven herself, since instead of humbly turning down their request, or even accepting it, she picks up a nearby guitar and shreds a quick riff, leaving everyone's mouth agape.

 

Sunny saved her friends, saved the day, and most importantly, saved herself (from, well... herself).

 

~Equestria Girls: Friendship Games~ (aka the best pony movie ever)

This was everything I ever could have hoped for. Even in the opening credits, we see minimal Twilight and the insertion of Sunset Shimmer in all of the HuMane 6 (yes, 6, as Sunny is now an OFFICIAL MEMBER) art work. The movie makes it very clear that Sunset Shimmer is kind of like the new Twilight for these girls. She's their expert on magic and the team member who clearly doesn't get what all this high school BS is about (funny, given that she's been going there for 3 years).

 

She's also the one being tasked with a difficult and complex problem. Her situation very closely mirror's Twilight's from EQG2. She's being relied on heavily to solve a problem that she doesn't fully understand. The only difference really being that Sunny reaches out for help, it just isn't available from the person she's asking.

 

Multiple times over the course of the movie, Sunset Shimmer is rallied around by her friends and peers. Notably first, at the end of the Acadeca, when she loses to Other Twilight. Despite her failure, which sends her reeling, the HuMane 6 see it as a victory. Sunset Shimmer is the reason they actually almost BEAT Crystal Prep. For the first time. Ever. A similar event happens at the end of the relay event, when Other Twilight's stolen magic breaks loose, Rainbow Dash Pony's Up, and Sunny blames this all on herself for not figuring out how to keep the magic in check. Principal Celestia forgives Sunset Shimmer for not understanding the magic that she has no control over, but Sunny seems determined to blame herself.

 

One of the most interesting, grounding, and humanizing (for a pony movie) scenes in the movie is when Other Twilight absorbs Rainbow Dash's magic after the Relay. Sunset Shimmer, clearly very frustrated with Other Twi for interfering and stealing her friends magic, UNLEASHES this torrent of rage on Other Twi, who runs away crying. Now, some have said this is a slip for Sunset Shimmer back to the days of being a villain, but I disagree. Sunny is under and INSANE amount of stress, and is not only upset with Other Twilight for stealing magic and messing with forces she doesn't understand. We have to also consider how frustrated she was at NOT receiving an answer from Princess Twilight, in addition to the fact that Other Twilight's lack of understanding mirrors her own. She's not being "evil". Sunset Shimmer is very clearly upset with HERSELF in this instance, and is taking it out on the person who LOOKS like the friend that isn't answering her. Immediately following this outburst, she knows that she's done wrong, and in the final event, looks to make up for it.

 

Speaking of the final event: BEST. SCENE. EVER. Other Twilight gets conned into unleashing the magic for extremely selfish reasons, both on behalf of her school and herself. This concentrated magic converts Other Twi into something I can only describe as a "raging she-demon". Sound familiar?

 

Having been in her position, Sunset tries to reason with Other Twi, telling her that power, magic and megalomania are NOT the answers. Other Twi refuses to listen and begins to go on a rampage of wanton destruction.

 

This is her moment. This is Sunset Shimmer's redemption. Like a phoenix burning bright in the sky, Sunset Shimmer calls upon the EQG Elements of Harmony, unifying all five of them to unlock the sixth element and ascend to becoming the Alicorn Princess of Friendship (of EQG). In the final moments after their beam battle, Sunset Shimmer makes the most important gesture of her character arc.

 

"Take my hand Twilight. Let me show you there's another way, like someone once did for me."

 

Sunset Shimmer has now come full-circle. She has defeated a powerful evil with the magic of friendship, and offered the villain an olive branch, a chance to join them and show them the way and the healing power of friendship.

 

Which, for me, firmly solidifies her as the Princess of Friendship.

 

In the end, we get a little blurb about Other Twi joining CHS, and later, Princess Twilight pops in to say hi, and mention something about a time loop.

 

 

~In Closing~

Sunset Shimmer has come full-circle. Starting as a villain and being battled as a demon, she was being offered an olive branch by the Princess of Friendship. Though friendship, she learns how to deal with her own personal demons, and how to be a better friend. Then, with the help of her friends, she accomplishes the same feat: defeating a demon and offering to help them learn about the magic of friendship.

 

With this, Sunny's character arc completed, I could be fulfilled in knowing that there aren't any more EQG movies on the horizon

 

Not that I don't want more of them...

[cmarston1 5,959]

I probably would be satisfied if Equestria Girls ended as a trilogy.

Edited September 27, 2015 by cmarston1

[Moonlit 593]

Would I be satisfied: No

There are hundreds of reasons you can keep doing EQG movies, but I think the main plotpoint that needs to be resolved is Sunset Shimmer making up with Princess Celestia. IF or WHEN we see this, I will be satisifed.

[ManaMinori 4,145]

Most likely no. I don't like EqG, so it might sound odd that I think there should be a 4th movie. I only watch it for Sunset, who is by far, the only interesting character there. I want a 4th movie with her getting homesick and going back to Equestria, permanantly. There's more than enough students at CHS (and Crystal Prep) to develop, now, without Sunny. They've already established the girls communicating long distances, so Sunny could leave her journal that she's been using to communicate with Pony Twi, with the girls at CHS, and go home, taking all the magic back with her, but the book still working for the CHS girls to stay in touch.

[King Sejong 859]

   As much as I would have loved for Equestria Girls to have ended as a trilogy, I have grown fond of the human characters, Sunset Shimmer has become one of my favourite, and I would like to see her developed further. I also like to learn more about the human Twilight Sparkle and how the human world and Equestria intersect, I am also curious if the pony mane six would ever cross the portal and meet their human compatriots, how would they react, and seek out for discovery and adventure. If Star Trek, Star Wars and Harry Potter could have multiple films, I think Equestria Girls could have more, just as long as the real final film, ends with closure and the characters cover any loose ends, I think we can enjoy more friendship morals, entertaining songs and humour, the possibilities are there, the questions is how far down the rabbit hole do we wish to go.

Edited September 27, 2015 by King Edouard

[The Coffee Pony 1,390]

I would've had closure, and that is largely because Equestria Girls has been a story about the fall and redemption of Sunset Shimmer. That story arc has now closed and if EqG were to end I would be fine.

 

However Sunset Shimmer is TOO GOOD of a character to let sit by and probably only rely on comic entries. She needs more; heck human Twilight needs more and there is still the question of that world's Sunset Shimmer.

 

Honestly EqG in general needs more.

 

I have to say, despite the rough start with the first Equestria Girls movie, they really hit with their stride with Rainbow Rocks and have improved with this movie. They've taken a setting that a lot of people considered boring and overdone and have built an interesting world out of it. We've seen interesting takes on the ponies in Equestria with their human counterparts and they've made Sunset Shimmer into a great character. I honestly would like to see more of this world and these characters, a movie a year just isn't enough. I think they have done well enough to warrant an Equestria Girls TV Series. I don't care how many people in the Brony Fandom hate it, call it a "Horrid Monster High Rip-off" (which it isn't) and complain about its existence, Equestria Girls has proven itself to be pretty damn good and has gathered a large following of its own, it deserves a series on the small screen.

Edited September 27, 2015 by The Coffee Pony

[zombienixon 330]

It's not like this is going to be the last movie.  They make one every year to tie in with the new line of dolls, so the movies will stop coming out when they stop making the dolls.

[KillSh0ck4 102]

Would I have closure: No

 

This series is amazing and I actually like it better than FIM. there's still so much they can do with this series it's characters and plot is what makes this so special. If they were to have ended it as a trilogy I would take a long and I mean looooooooong time to accept that it's over.

 

I hope they keep making these movies for a long time they're just too good to stop now and most people would agree.

[PROJECT: Simon 3,954]

I just want Hasbro to keep EQG a bit longer~ '~' <3 <3 :D  

[MLPFanatic34 3,234]

Nah I want it to keep going, there's a lot of cool stories they can do and a lot of different characters they can work with, plus I want to see Sunset go back to Equestria maybe once.

[dekutree64 713]

Nope, they definitely need to do another where the Twilights study eachother, and the nature of magic in the human world. I'm also quite curious whether human Twilight would become a unicorn or alicorn if she went through the portal...

[-Nobody- 519]

Not with the way the third film ended. I'd need more from a movie to have closure, and even then I probably wouldn't want it to end.

[BlackWater627 700]

 

 

Nah I want it to keep going, there's a lot of cool stories they can do and a lot of different characters they can work with, plus I want to see Sunset go back to Equestria maybe once.

 

 

The possibilities are like endless.

 

Yeah it shouldn't be a trilogy. It should be a saga like Star Wars. And just like Star Wars, as long as it rakes in some money it will go on and on... 

 

...I hope. Really. I know it's Equestria Girls but I would love me some pony Sunset.  Maybe crossover into the show? Or have a half/half spinoff series?

[Shimmer Sparkle 4,101]

NEVER!!!!!!! I want Sunny to return to Equestria. But that doesn't mean I want Equestria Girls to end. Maybe EQG could air as a TV series alongside FiM. THAT WOULD BE AWESOME!!! Sunny and Twi could return to the human world on occasions. Maybe the Mane 6 could tag along sometime or their human counterparts could go to the pony world. EQG MUST NOT END!!!!!!

[Sugar Cube 4,843]

I would absolutely NOT have closure. Simply put, Friendship Games didn't "end" on an ending note. There was no proper closure on many things. Earth Twilight joined the group, and that was about it. What's next for Sunset Shimmer on her quest to learn about friendship? Is there another human Sunset Shimmer somewhere in that world? And will the Sunset that we know ever return to Equestria, and if so, will she stay there? Until we get more answers like these, I will not have closure, and I wouldn't accept FG as the last Equestria Girls. The way it ended so casually just begged for more. There needs to be AT LEAST one more movie, and luckily there is another on the way.

[J. Brony 313]

I would've had closure, and that is largely because Equestria Girls has been a story about the fall and redemption of Sunset Shimmer. That story arc has now closed and if EqG were to end I would be fine.

 

However Sunset Shimmer is TOO GOOD of a character to let sit by and probably only rely on comic entries. She needs more; heck human Twilight needs more and there is still the question of that world's Sunset Shimmer.

 

Honestly EqG in general needs more.

 

This also summarizes how I feel on the subject.

 

Now, if the issue of Equestrian magic is addressed in the fourth movie and it ends with Sunset Shimmer returning to Equestria I'd be fine with that.  I honestly like the EQG series consisting only of movies and am not sure how I'd feel if it was spun off into its own television series.

[UnknownFry 169]

After seeing Friendship Games, I would feel there would be enough closure, but there still is plenty of more material to make more films and projects out of it. Thankfully Hasbro has decided to keep on making more instead of ending it.

 

There is still a lot to do with Sunset and Twilight as far as these films are concerned.

Edited October 8, 2015 by UnknownFry