Is it just me or does it feel like we've been burning through this season really quickly? I don't mind so much, it's been a really good one so far, but even without watching the Italian releases it feels like no time. Ironically, I say this right at the point I plan to start going even quicker. Yeah, my plan to finish the first half of the season is to watch the Canadian releases (Assuming they actually appear), put all three episodes into one thoughts post without losing any time, then do the

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I'm somewhat short on preamble ideas this week so, gonna go back a little bit and finally talk about the hiatus shorts. I know a lot of people were giving them flak for various reasons (partly because of Kim Beyer-Johnson's involvement and partly because being overly critical over everything seems to be where we are as a culture) but I decided to give them a chance and...They were ok. Some were fun, some felt kinda middling and some didn't make any sense at all (I still don't buy Twilight being

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So, season 9 has got into its stride and so far, it's going pretty good. A solid opener, one kinda iffy episode and a fantastic celebration worthy of the top the. From what I've seen, there's no sign of the trend stopping. Especially since the episodes covered today are effectively sequels to episodes that have formerly sat in my all-time top ten (and also the worst episode of the whole show, but that's beside the point). Can they pull of the rarest of things a sequel can do and live up to the

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Let's be real for a moment, pretty much nobody expected this show to get to where it is back in 2010. Heck, I didn't think it would happen until after S7 came and went. But here we are, 200 episodes in (or 199 if you're like me and still count Best Gift Ever as a special, not an episode). I may not have been part of the journey since the start, but it's been a great seven years and even if we have less than seven months of it left, it's all been worth it.

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So...Here we are. The nine year journey of MLP:FiM (though for me is just shy of seven years) is entering its final leg. I never did get round to making that wish list, though thankfully the game of S9 bingo covers it pretty well (minus the obvious exception of Spitfire Episode). It's going to be weird going through this season without any leaks and enjoying the blindness...Minus that one person on DA who decided since they'd seen the trailer all

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So, after a little under three and a quarter years of planning, writing, seeing what I wrote as trash and then seeing people generally disagree, I'm all done with what amounted to the original plan for the Quickverse. Honestly, I didn't even expect it to do quite as well as it did and I want to again thank everyone that read it. Which just makes it that little bit harder to say that I currently don't plan to continue the storyline.

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So S8 has wrapped up, everyone's decided their opinion on each episode needs reshuffling now we've had time to get perspective, and now we're all settled in for the long 5-7 months that is the hiatus, right? Thankfully, not quite. We've got our fourth Christmas special coming out at the wrong time of year, making five total and throwing another cog in the question of just how much time has passed since the show began. Fortunately, aside from some debatable points, it looks like this one takes

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Well readers, we've made it to the end again. Every season seems to have a theme. S2 was the season of show development for example, while S6 was the season of shipping. In all honesty, S8 feels like the season of the fandom attempting to tear every episode down however they can and retroactively taint as many classics as possible in the process. Not calling anyone out specifically, but some of the discussion threads recently make it feel like the number of people who still genuinely enjoy the

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Well, here we are. The final regular episodes of the season once again. I was going to go on a tangent about how ridiculous it would have sounded if you'd said the season would get this good a few months back, but I already accidentally deleted this post once and I'd just like to get on with it before I fall asleep. Plus, I highly doubt anyone else actually thinks so either.

Even though you've probably seen most of them, unmarked spoilers are still in effect.

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Well, here we are again. For the third time this season, we find ourselves with a streak of three good episodes and waiting to see if it'll go further. Maybe even reach that five episode run that shows a season has is actually pretty decent. Even though Fake it 'Til you Make it and The Mean 6 brought the last two runs to a crashing halt, I still haven't given up hope. Even though another rough episode would end any hope of a longer streak. Still, the season has been gaining strength throughout

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