If you could change ONE thing in the show. What would you change?

[Bit Boss 213]

Either cut Spike more slack, or give Celestia some limelight for once.

Oooh yes some Celestia and Luna backstory maybe? They're basically GODS so I'd love to see the writers try to explain that to the kids   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7PQ9IO-7fU < "Lullaby For a Princess", for example, takes Luna's downfall seriously and shows us how Celestia feels about being forced to banish her. In FIM, Celestia doesn't really show any emotion, and so she seems a bit 2-dimensional...

[Luminance 2,186]

Make the CMCs found their Cutie Marks separately with each of their own special episode.

[EmeraldStar04 250]

Starlight isn't canon, forcing s6 to take a different direction and suck les.

[Thrond 3,263]

If I could change only one thing which has happened in the show... well, I hate to be "that guy," but I probably would have avoided Twilicorn. The show doesn't seem all that interested in bringing it anywhere especially interesting, and Twilight has only become more boring since and almost certainly as a consequence of becoming a princess. I don't think it's done much good for thevshow, "Twilight's Kingdom" aside.

[Techno Universal 2,575]

Maybe add a science fiction element to the show like all the ponies where futuristic robots originally built by Techno Universal to originally fix human society in the beginning but it then expanded to equestria.

[SanityNotIncluded 335]

Make Starlight the new protagonist and have it based around her.

Wouldn't necessarily disagree with this happening eventually, but you'd have to put up one hell of a fight against parts of the fandom xD.

 

Serious answer: I'm surprised nobody has said this yet, but I'dd add eight additional minutes to the runtime (so from 22 minutes to a full half-hour). A lot of stories end up feeling rushed, and that has the potential to improve the show immensely. 

[cmarston1 5,959]

I would have given Starlight's Reformation in season 6 a similar treatment to the amount of focus Peridot from Steven Universe had. That would have meant one episode with her bonding with an individual member of the mane six across the season.

[Le Trotteur Sauvage 13,052]

How can you like Smile, and not like the others? 

I like the rythme, the lyrics are uuuh not to "childish" and "mushy"

[Ruddboy Olaf 10,628]

I like the rythme, the lyrics are uuuh not to "childish" and "mushy"

Isn't most of the show "childish" and "mushy?" 

[Baykush 328]

Delete this animation from Too Many Pinkie Pies:

 

 

 
Not only was it unnecessary, but it also created horrible implications about Twilight killing the other Pinkies (which were sentient and intelligent creatures). It would just look like they were being sent back to the pond without that little detail.

[The MegaBrony 219]

The defeats of the bad guys with just one annoying "friendship's" blast.  

 

it's getting pretty old.

Especially after Power Rangers just fight the bad guy really really hard and he eventually just explodes. With FiM's one-shot friendship blasts, the Mane 6 might as well summon Saitama, who only needs one punch to beat ANYONE stupid enough to just stand there and take it. Fun fact: Tirek is the ONLY FiM villain to take more than one hit before his defeat.

Edited December 4, 2016 by The MegaBrony

[Le Trotteur Sauvage 13,052]

Isn't most of the show "childish" and "mushy?" 

Yes but it's a tv show, not a musical comedy ^^ ! I don't really like when they made character sing. Whether it's MLP, Family Guy, South Park or any other show.

It's...I just don't like it.

[TBD 17,256]

Especially after Power Rangers just fight the bad guy really really hard and he eventually just explodes. With FiM's one-shot friendship blasts, the Mane 6 might as well summon Saitama, who only needs one punch to beat ANYONE stupid enough to just stand there and take it. Fun fact: Tirek is the ONLY FiM villain to take more than one hit before his defeat.

We definitely need more like Tierk just to keep interesting..at the least. 

[sweetolebob18 728]

Way back in Return of Harmony (S2 E1 & E2) I'd have limited Discord's powers.  Maybe "He can't affect the Mane 6 without their consent".  (Arguably, they consented when they went in the maze, so the episode still works)