With the pillars having been established, Season 7 now had a lot of slots to fill in until the finale. "To Change A Changeling" aired as the seventeenth episode even though it was the nineteenth in production order. Interestingly, "To Change A Changeling" was the last episode to credit Lewis and Songco as the story editors solo. Beginning with "Daring Done?" Josh Haber would also be credited, and I don't think it's coincidence that Season 7 started doing better around the same time he returned

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Just when you thought Twilight being an alicorn was just going to be ignored and forgotten, this episode came along and turned that all on its head. Dave Polsky, fresh off his success from "Rarity Takes Manehattan" was ready to tackle his first ever CMC episode. Yet this episode doesn't get talked about much either way, it seems to be among Season 4's forgotten episodes. Is there a reason for that? Well, let's find out.

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Allow me to explain what's going on here. I'm not going to re-review every episode, every movie and every special from here on out. I still think a majority of my reviews from this point onward summed up my thoughts and feelings quite well the first time around (especially on the Equestria Girls side). However, there are others that I feel could do with some updating: Either because new information about them has come to light or because I feel like there are points I didn't consider in the

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Although the twentieth episode to air, this episode was eighteenth in production order and became the last of the individual legend episodes involving a pillar. This would also be only the third time Twilight and Fluttershy would ever be paired up, though their team-ups prior had been less than noticeable. This time, they were being paired up under the duo of Sammie Crowley and Whitney Wetta who had previously penned "A Flurry of Emotions" back in Season 7's fanservice filled first half. But

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What little we did see of the School of Friendship in the episodes immediately prior to this one didn't bode well for it, it seemed to serve more as a plot restrictor since characters wouldn't be able to do things due to their need to teach. And yet the student/young six were not getting any focus at all. If not for what was being leaked far in advance, most people would've probably suspected Season 8 was going to be just like Season 7 and have no sense of direction at all for the longest time.

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Season 8 seemed to finally get a stand out episode with "Horse Play", a Princess Celestia focused episode. But even then it was far from universally praised. And it still seemed like the school and the student/young six were not being utilized all that much. When this episode premiered, fans initially hoped for some information to finally be shed on Starlight Glimmer's past, especially in light of Josh Haber issuing a statement that Starlight was a latch key kid (her parents were always away,

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Season 8 really went off the rails hard when "Non-Compete Clause" hit the airwaves, and it saw Applejack and Rainbow Dash sink to a low you never would've thought possible while also unintentionally proving the "antagonist" Neighsay right. And now, picking up the pieces was this episode by Nick Confalone that was both the second episode in the Guy's Night trilogy and the second episode in the SugarMac trilogy. But these days, even with the knowledge of what was to come for both trilogies

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So it was that, just after Season 8 wrapped up, we got treated to a special themed after Christmas when it wasn't even Halloween yet.

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The leaks returned with a vengeance for Season 9, episodes started popping up like wildfire online in full English. This was one of them. As for Season 9 as a whole, it had gone from an incredible villains only episode in "Frenemies" (which still holds up regardless of the Grogar twist), to an unwanted redemption of Garble in "Sweet and Smoky" to the flat out waste of episode slot that was "Going to Seed". So now a Starlight Glimmer focus episode of all things was tasked with getting the season

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Ah yes, this episode. I'll bet many of you have been looking forward to this one for quite some time. I mean, the fandom had been all but begging for years for Scootaloo to have a family she could come home to. And once the Ponyville Mysteries books revealed that she was being cared for by her aunts (which were gay), fans only further started anticipating the possibility of Scootaloo finally getting to have a family. But nowadays, everyone seems to hate this episode and hate the family

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Coming out right in the middle of Season 9, we had this unexpected special to talk about. Apparently, word is that this "special" was originally a sequel to the 2017 movie and was subsequently salvaged and retooled for whatever reason (likely because a sequel would've been hard to justify when the movie took so long to come out due to its troubled production history). It certainly seems believable when you consider that this is the only other thing Toon Boom was used for, though the animation

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Season 3 had a bit of a writing shake up occur when Amy Keating Rogers did not return (and neither did Charlotte Fullerton) but Dave Polsky did after having been absent during the enterity of Season 2. Dave had written two rather funny but really controversial episodes, though "Over A Barrel" at least had kind of faded away as Season 2's missteps took center stage. Polsky was in charge of a Pinkie Pie episode, and his handling of Pinkie Pie in "Over A Barrel" was far from the best. But was

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This and the next couple of episodes could be said to be a rather abrupt dry patch for the show, not necessarily as long lasting as Season 1's which lasted from "Stare Master" through "A Bird in the Hoof" but still a stretch marked by episodes that don't tend to be remembered very fondly (if at all). Amy Keating Rogers, now defined primarily by "The Last Roundup" and the still ongoing controversy about Derpy, penned this episode. Was Amy about to fall off her pedestal like Larson did or was she

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Despite this and "Dance Magic" and "Mirror Magic" being made part of the same story, different writers penned all three specials. This one was written by Noelle Benvenuti, who had been absent from the writing scene since the lackluster "Made in Manehattan" that we now know was changed from its original planned story involving Flim and Flam. A shame, rather. But more likely, real world problems were to blame for Noelle's abrupt absence, given that her mother died suddenly in 2014, not unlike the

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So it is that we come to the third and final act of this special, and what at the very least counts as the black sheep of the lot in the form of "Mirror Magic". Compared to the two previous specials, this one directly focuses on its villain, albeit one we've seen before. But hey, Queen Chrysalis' big return in "To Where and Back Again" seemed to be received quite well all things considered. And Meghan McCarthy demonstrated that reusing villains didn't have to be a death sentence given the way

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First and foremost, I want to briefly mention that my account for paid commisssions is up and running. It's CSPB2024. If you could all help spread the word about it, that would be appreciated. Now it's on to the episode proper, though I do briefly want to touch on the controversy surrounding the rumor about A.I. voices for "Make Your Mark" and "Tell Your Tale" that were recently debunked. It's sad that this is even a thing considerng we just had a major writers/actors strike last year that was

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Season 8's mid season hiatus couldn't have come at a worser time for it, right on the heels of really bad episodes "Marks for Effort" and "The Mean Six", which were so low quality you have to wonder how they didn't get flagged for obvious writing mistakes or plot holes, and just further seemed to make the School of Friendship look like a bad idea that should not have been greenlit. So many people were already declaring Season 8 the worst season of the show, worse even than Season 3 or Season 6

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While we now know that this has to take place not just before Season 8 but before the events of the 2017 FiM movie, it first premiered in February of 2018, about a month before Season 8 of FiM hit the airwaves. Interestingly, the Discovery Family broadcast omitted several scenes that were later released as part of an "extended" version. As for the writer, it was none other than Nick Confalone, who apparently got the job of writing for FiM because he was friends with Josh Haber. He would be

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Well, Tell Your Tale finally decided to try to do something interesting, because the last episode showed Sunny's mom in a flashback. But they didn't even give her a name, let alone elaborate on what happened to her. And given the way Tell Your Tale progresses, I'm not expecting any follow-up anytime soon. Getting back to G4, Season 8 hit its first stumbling block only four episodes in, and the School of Friendship was already looking like a bad idea because it was a plot restricter rather than

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Due to the decision to count "The Best Gift Ever" special as an episode (despite it being double the length of one), the 200th episode threshold was crossed with "Sparkle's Seven", an episode that revolved around taking ideas from the mane six (and Spike's) VAs and trying to blend them all together. It's probably best remembered for finally addressing Spike's family situation with Twilight, revealing that he's been a little brother to her rather than a son like some people (myself included)

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