Will Season 8 have continuity to the movie?

[TheGOAT 64]

Begs to raise the question.

[Firedog 320]

I'm guessing so.

 

I'm sure Hasbro is hoping to bank of the movie success. Expecting people to watch after the movie

Edited May 24, 2017 by Firedog

[Prospekt 10,999]

I don't see why not. And even if there aren't explicit references in Season 8 and any further seasons, or any returning new characters from the movie, keep the movie completely canon by never contradicting it.

[GrimGrimoire 4,973]

 

Maybe... I would imagine you MIGHT see some of the characters from the film cross over to the show.... and they may leave some plot lines dangling to be wrapped up in S8.

[FirePuppy 675]

It's best to just wait UNTIL the movie comes out, which is still at least 19 weeks from now.

[cmarston1 5,956]

Maybe we could get some brief references during the season, but for the most part I expect the events of the movie to be self contained and not impact the show proper, so it wouldn't confuse kids who didn't see the movie.

[Unlikeable Pony 2,698]

To be honest, I'm expecting the movie to be treated like your standard anime movie: "for the next hour, these will be treated as the most dangerous beings you have ever encountered, and then will be completely forgotten about for all time afterwards"

 

I don't think there will be any canon changes to the show IMO.

[Ganondox 899]

Probably not. The show has stayed self-contained so far, and I don't think the movie is going to change that. 

[BlueStreak98 828]

I suspect the movie will be more or less self-contained to the point that it won't risk creating any potential conflicts with the show. I imagine the goal will be to leave people wanting more, even if it isn't the same adventure as we see in the film.

[Jeric 46,844]

I expect only dialogue references to species introduced in the film in some sort of cold open exposition dump (Celestia is meeting with Seaquestria delegate for instance). 

Nothing plot centric will cross over. 

[Steve Piranha 29,398]

The movie will be kept self-contained to avoid new audience to be confused, but  S8 won't have to deal with that. Not to mention FiM do continuity nods all the time 

[Hierok 11,831]

I hope the movie will be build into the series. But only if I like it. 

[Kyoshi Frost Wolf 41,092]

It would be incredibly awkward if it didn't. The movie is obviously going to have huge events happening, that is for certain and if these huge events happen and the characters just never mention them again or we see no results at all from those evens in season 8, it will just seem dumb. With the movie being such a big deal, I don't think it will be ignored. 

[Brainstorm 4,096]

I think Season 8 and the movie will be different versions of the story. 

[bwrosas 252]

I give my speculation on that topic here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpTwjIGd1D4

Reply if you like

[FirePuppy 675]

Speaking of which, we're getting 26 more episodes with this season:

 

[TheGOAT 64]

1 hour ago, FirePuppy said:

Speaking of which, we're getting 26 more episodes with this season:

 

How exactly is that news? We know that every season has 26 episodes.

[PinkiePie97 913]

3 hours ago, TheGOAT said:

How exactly is that news? We know that every season has 26 episodes.

Not every season. Season 3 had 13 episodes. I still figured season 8 would have 26 episodes, but it wasn't confirmed before yesterday, so it actually is news.

[Jeric 46,844]

3 hours ago, TheGOAT said:

How exactly is that news? We know that every season has 26 episodes.

That's Tartarus in the background. Not sure if intentional, but it isn't news that deserves a completely dismissive response. 

[Ashen Pathfinder 16,158]

I'd be surprised if there were. The general line of thumb for media seems to indicate that when a franchise has both movies and/or TV shows there is very little interaction between the two outside of a brief mention. Star Trek is especially known for that. Like you would never hear of the Enterprise E in the various shows, though there was a brief mention of the Dominion War in Insurrection.

I largely expect the same for MLP; especially with how the EqG films are handled.

[Megas 27,390]

Depends if there's gonna be some changes to the status quo in the movie 

[MAIKUN 262]

Well as long they're NOT all alicorn princesses for sure!

[K.Rool Addict 718]

I really hope so. Would be so cool to see a supposedly CANON movie, actually being treated as canon within the series itself -.-