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Jul
9th
2021

Episode Re-Review: She's All Yak · 5:09pm Jul 9th, 2021

Season 9 seemed to go back to Season 7's first half's quality of up and down writing. One episode would be really good, and then the next would be really forgettable at best. That seemed to be the case when we went from the pretty good "The Beginning of the End" to the lackluster rehash of "Castle, Sweet Castle" that was "Uprooted", and then went from the amazing "Sparkle's Seven" to the medicore "The Point of No Return", before getting back to a good level of quality with "Common Ground" that

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Sep
26th
2020

IDW Comics Revisited - Main Series #10 · 3:26am Sep 26th, 2020

The comics had been going through some ups and downs, but managing to make it to ten issues is quite impressive in hindsight considering how many short lived side series were lucky to get even half of that (and it seems IDW has given up on trying to have a side series all together now. Since "Feats of Friendship" wrapped up they've announced nothing to fill the gap). Still, the decision to take a relatively simple slice of life story and make it a two parter was a decision that seemed kind of

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Jun
20th
2021

Episode Re-Review: Marks and Recreation · 3:33pm Jun 20th, 2021

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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Jun
22nd
2021

Movie Re-Review: My Little Pony The Movie · 8:09pm Jun 22nd, 2021

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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Feb
22nd
2021

Episode Re-Review: Sweet and Elite · 6:32pm Feb 22nd, 2021

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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Jun
30th
2021

Episode Re-Review: The Hearth's Warming Club · 5:37pm Jun 30th, 2021

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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Jun
29th
2021

Episode Re-Review: A Matter of Principals · 5:54pm Jun 29th, 2021

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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Jul
8th
2021

Episode Re-Review: Sparkle's Seven · 3:53pm Jul 8th, 2021

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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Sep
25th
2020

IDW Comics Revisited - Main Series #9 · 2:47am Sep 25th, 2020

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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Apr
22nd
2021

Episode Re-Review: Appleloosa's Most Wanted · 4:55pm Apr 22nd, 2021

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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Feb
7th
2021

Episode Re-Review: A Dog and Pony Show · 11:19pm Feb 7th, 2021

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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Mar
2nd
2024

Special Re-Review: Equestria Girls: Dance Magic (Magical Movie Night, Part 1) · 5:50pm Mar 2nd, 2024

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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Apr
30th
2021

Episode Re-Review: Canterlot Boutique · 6:21pm Apr 30th, 2021

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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Mar
23rd
2024

Episode Re-Review: Triple Threat · 4:22pm Mar 23rd, 2024

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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Feb
24th
2024

Episode Re-Review: The Perfect Pear · 5:27pm Feb 24th, 2024

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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Mar
30th
2024

Episode Re-Review: To Change a Changeling · 3:46pm Mar 30th, 2024

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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Jul
20th
2024

Special Re-Review: Equestria Girls: Spring Breakdown · 4:08pm Jul 20th, 2024

So it is that we come to the third and final Nick Confalone Equestria Girls special. He had previously brought the franchise to a new high with "Forgotten Friendship", then brought it to a new low with "Rollercoaster of Friendship". By now, all the focus was on the upcoming Season 9 of its sister series, because word had gotten out that it was the last season. Nick Confalone would return to FiM for one more episode in that season, so this was not his swan song. But did this special accomplish

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Sep
21st
2024

Episode Re-Review: The Last Laugh · 3:07pm Sep 21st, 2024

It's been an interesting week for the fandom, because there's been rumors about G5 supposedly ending in 2025 and G6 coming in 2026, with a supposed G6 show focusing on Twilight Sparkle attending camp with Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, and Misty. Hasbro has confirmed they're working on a more "inclusive" rebranding of the MLP franchise in 2026 (not sure what they mean by that seeing as G5 finally had a guy join the main cast of ponies, can't get much more inclusive than that), but everything else is

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Aug
10th
2024

Episode Re-Review: Common Ground · 5:30pm Aug 10th, 2024

Season 9 kept bobbing up and down in quality. One episode would be really, really good. And the next would be really, really bad (or even just really forgettable). So it is that Rainbow Dash was getting would be her third to last focus episode (and second to last solo focus episode), and one that was not only bringing Patton Oswalt back as Quibble Pants but also including Patton's family, including his daughter Alice (who was apparently a big fan of the show). Quibble had been handled

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Nov
2nd
2024

Special Re-Review: Equestria Girls: Holidays Unwrapped · 4:41pm Nov 2nd, 2024

Today is actually the five year anniversay of this special hitting the airwaves, making it the last official G4 content. And it has since come to light that this was not meant to be the grand finale for "Equestria Girls" as a whole. There were plans for a third season of the shorts series, which would've culminated with a special answering the nagging question of whatever happened to the human world Sunset Shimmer. And according to the details leaked later, it would've ended with the Sunset

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