22 in production order but 21st to air, making it the last one to come out before the big movie in 2017. Ironically, this episode was focused entirely on the CMC, none of the mane six or even Spike or Starlight would appear, making this the only other episode all season where that was the case (Starlight would get to share "To Change a Changeling" with Trixie). May Chan, previously responsible for the less than stellar "Not Asking for Trouble" and a veteran of shows like Avatar: The Last

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I bet many of you have been both anticipating and dreading this re-review for quite some time, but it must be done. This movie definitely has an interesting production history. It was announced in 2014 right as the show's fourth season was coming to an end, and was originally slated for release much earlier than it ultimately was. It kept being pushed back, and then at the very end got bumped up a month from November to October of 2017 so that it wouldn't have to compete with a crowded holiday

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So after a string of less than stellar episodes that culminated with the show's first truly despised episode (at the time), it seemed like Season 2 might be on the wrong track and the show was already hitting "Seasonal Rot". To get things back on track we had another episode Lauren Faust had a contributing role in (albeit indirectly) and written by Meghan McCarthy who had penned "Lesson Zero" and before that "Party of One". Yet this was not a mental breakdown episode. So, was Meghan up to the

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Now it's on to the other half of the Season 8 second half "premiere". This episode was the first to focus almost entirely on the student/young six since their introduction, the best we'd gotten before had been them "reacting" to what was going on around them in "Non-Compete Clause" or "A Matter of Principals", as well as Smolder expositing about the molt to Spike in "Molt Down". The same Brian Hohlfeld that penned "Surf and/or Turf" was writing this episode, and he'd seemed to have done a good

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Just when Season 8 looked like it was finally finding its footing, along came duds such as "Marks For Effort" that saw Twilight sink to a new low when a climax was hastily shoehorned in and the absolute waste of an episode that was "The Mean Six". In both cases, it was a warning sign in the villain department as we had both a painfully obvious twist villain and an established villain hitting villain decay so badly she was no longer a threat to anyone. But when Season 8 came back for its second

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With "The Best Gift Ever" counted as an official episode of the show (despite being double the length of one), it was at this point that the show crossed the 200 episode marker, a milestone few other shows could claim and one that officially cemented it as the longest running of all shows Hasbro ever made. The story for this episode is actually pretty unique and interesting. In late 2017, Josh Haber and Nicole Dubac got the voice actors for all of the mane six and for Spike to sit down and

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So, after two big four part arcs came and went, the comics decided it was time to do something different and they sure did: Two parter, slice of life stories. And this first one was going to be focused on Big Macintosh, entitled "Zen and the Art of Gezebo Repair". Considering the first arc was very rough around the edges and the second arc wasted an interesting concept on questionable writing choices, was this shift to more slice of life stuff for the best? Well, let's find out.

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So just two episodes after "Bloom and Gloom" potentially opened the door for the next phase of the CMC's development, we now had this episode involving them looking for an outlaw. Dave Polsky was picked to write this episode, coincidentally around the time he was establishing himself on the then new Sonic Boom cartoon. Considering Dave had undergone a writing metamorphosis in Season 4, shedding his usual comedic ways and branching out into new areas, this should've been a good sign

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Now we come to what may be the only bright light in this sea of darkness (at least for the foreseeable future, it'll be a couple of episodes before we get another one above average) and it's Rarity's second focus episode to boot. Amy Keating Rogers was in the hot seat for this one, so was she up to the task of getting things back on track more or less? Well, let's find out.

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Season 5's first half had been unfortunately quite the rollercoaster ride, perhaps hampered by two new writers debuting to less than stellar results and M. A. Larson hating the idea of story editor, to the point where he handed it back to Meghan McCarthy. By now word had come out that a theatrical movie was in the works, and Meghan would begin to be called away to help work on it. Still, for the time being she was serving as story editor again. Meanwhile, to kick off the second half we had Amy

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I'm going by release date for the specials I didn't cover during my initial re-reviews back in 2021, even though we now know when some of the specials are actually supposed to take place. In any case, this special is one of three that, when combined together, equals the total run time of a full length Equestria Girls movie. From here on out, Hasbro would not greenlight another movie, but after these specials it would greenlight a "spin-off" series in the form of five minute YouTube shorts, a

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Now it's back to FiM, and back to Season 7. Season 7 finally seemed to find its footing at the very end of its first half, with the back to back successes of "Discordant Harmony" and "The Perfect Pear". The same could not be said for Equestria Girls, which debuted three specials meant to be combined into a full length movie, but only one of which ("Movie Magic") was any good. Still, Hasbro bit the bullet and finally greenlighted a spin-off series in the looset sense of the word, a five minute

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Well, it's official, "Make Your Mark" is dead. And G. M. Berrow, the G5 showrunner, has left Hasbro. As of yet, no explanation has been given as to her deparation, it could be entirely unrelated to G5. Still, given that she was involved with G4 first with chapter books (including a short lived Daring Do series) and then with episodes, and even voiced Zoom Zephyrwing in "A New Generation", it's sad to see her leave.

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After "Campfire Tales", the next several episodes got bumped around in terms of airdate compared to production order. This episode was the nineteenth episode in production order, but was the seventeenth to air. By now, all the focus was on the big theatrical movie for 2017 that was about a month away from premiering. This episode would also mark an abrupt end for Jonna Lewis and Kristine Songco as solo story editors, starting with "Daring Done?" Josh Haber would return to the editor's chair to

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Rating Scale:

12/10—a complete masterpiece; flawless and outstanding
11/10—Excellent, near-perfect film
10/10—the standard rating; awesome film with a couple of flaws
9/10—a wonderful film with several flaws
8/10–a great film with numerous flaws but not enough to ruin it

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Rating Scale:

12/10—a complete masterpiece; flawless and outstanding
11/10—Excellent, near-perfect film
10/10—the standard rating; awesome film with a couple of flaws
9/10—a wonderful film with several flaws
8/10–a great film with numerous flaws but not enough to ruin it

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