I'll probably do another list like this covering other types of episodes (season premieres, season finales, mid-season finales, and if Season 9 is the last season maybe eventually the episodes for each of the main characters). Anyway, with today being Valentine's Day, I feel like it's worth covering one of the only other holidays to get a pony equivalent in Hearts and Hooves Day. Compared to Hearth's Warming and Nightmare Night, Hearts and Hooves Day definitely hasn't attracted as much

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With Season 8 came a brand new addition to the list of parents as we finally got to meet Starlight's dad. How much of an impression he left is up for debate, but considering it's been almost a year and a half since my previous families list I felt it was worth updating. Sadly, we still don't know about Spike's family (as in his actual birth parents, to say nothing of how we've never seen him interact with Twilight's parents). As always this list is purely the result of my personal opinion.

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The end is neigh, folks! We really are in the endgame now, and a matter of hours it will all be over! It's been quite a ride and one I wouldn't have wanted to miss for the world, and just because the show may be over doesn't mean the fandom has to pack it up and call it quits. Heck, that's partially why I'm doing this list, because it's inevitable that even when a show runs for long as this one did there are some characters that will be forgotten over time. That just means that their

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Just a quick little something I'm doing before I call it a night. The finale was quite an experience, folks. But just because the show ended doesn't mean the fandom has to! I'm gonna be here for a long time to come!

As for the episodes themselves, like always they're the result of my personal opinion on the rankings. Some of them were actually pretty hard to rank. But here's how they stack up for me:
26. A Trivial Pursuit
25. A Horse Shoe-In
24. Sweet and Smoky
23. Uprooted

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This list was due for an update after Season 8, and rest assured the same will happen to the Top Five Best Writers tomorrow. Here's the second version, from a season ago. Let's see what changed. And as always, I mean no disrespect to anyone at Hasbro or DHX. Also, before we begin, I should mention that I'll be leaving out Besty McGowen and Teddy Antonio since they left no impression one way or the other

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This might seem unconventional considering Sunburst hasn't really gotten that much focus, but if characters like Daring Do and Trixie can be on the lists despite infrequent appearances then so can Sunburst. Of course, he doesn't have that many episodes to himself, only a total of 6. But it actually gives him a leg up on Daring Do who got only 4. Granted, this is because Sunburst has had two two parters and got three episodes at the very end of Season 7, but every bit counts.

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Like, wow! Turns out that "Dance Magic" was originally planned to be out before "Legend of Everfree", but scheduling caused it to be postponed, it's not known what the original draft was or how much changed to tie the short into "Legend of Everfree", but I think that worked out for the better. Anyway, this time around we move away from the high school setting and onto a movie set, with Noelle Benvenuti in the writer's seat. Noelle wrote "Maud Pie" back in Season 4, and also "Made in Manehattan"

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No facts today.

Thoughts & Opinions

To all you new writers out there, accept any and all criticism, and be friendly to your readers. It’s for the best.

I got blocked by someone for messing with them after they messed with literally everyone who commented. Not gonna name them, but let’s just say that they’ve got massive ego issues.

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So, we've got the third and final Equestria Girls special this year, and the one that arguably was the one most people were looking forward to the most. Especially once the synopsis revealed Sunset was going to go back to Equestria. Dave Polsky was one of two writers for this special, along with a writer who I think is brand spanking new and I don't know anything about. Unlike most collaborations, both writers penned the episode and worked on the story together, but considering most of FiM's

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Just like Season 7 brought some changes for the weakest show writers, it also changed some things for the strongest show writers, so we're gonna look at them again. Here's the first version, from a season ago. Let's see what changed.

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Well, it turns out the episode order for September is a lot more jumbled than it seemed. Episodes 17-22 are airing out of order, the production order is: "Daring Done?", "A Health of Information", "To Change A Changeling", "It Isn't The Mane Thing About You", "Once Upon A Zepplin", and then "Marks and Recreation", before it gets back to normal with "Secrets and Pies" as episode 23. Anyway, when I heard about this episode, I wasn't looking forward to it at all. First because the synopsis sounded

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Hope all of you stayed safe and avoided getting trampled if you had to go out shopping on this Black Friday, we're going to be ending these Top Ten lists for the show tonight, and I wanted to go out on a positive instead of a negative note. We updated the worst opening sequences last time, so now we're gonna update the best opening sequences. Here's the first version, from a season ago. Let's see what got added,

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While we've already gotten three of the five songs that will be in this season, and it's too soon to know how well the remaining two will be recieved, I figure that with two new songs having made it into my favorites, the time has come to update this list. Here's the previous version, from the end of Season 6. Like always, this list is not in any way official, so feel free to disagree (just so long as you respect my

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Since this comic's relatively new and may have flown under the radar for a lot of people, I figure it's only fair to warn you guys about spoilers on it even though technically it's been out since at least August. Anyway, the show returned for the second half of Season 7 (kicked off with the U.S. premieres of "Discordant Harmony" and "The Perfect Pear") in August, and later in the month Hurricane Harvey slammed into Houston Texas, triggering massive floods in areas below sea levels and raising

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After "Secrets and Pies" was a disappointment in every way despite my low expectations, no way was I going to wait around to find out if the season picked itself back up again before the finale. I should mention that apparently Hasbro did get hacked, so not only did the remaining episodes of Season 7 get leaked, but so did a whole lot of stuff related to the show including the show bible (details of it were made public from various interviews given by Lauren Faust and the show staff long

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Season 7 saw a lot of new writers enter the fold, and very few veteran writers come back. Normally, this tends to lead to seasonal rot in animated shows, particularly in cases where the new writers don't bother to watch what's already out there first. But this show managed to defy that trend, as Season 7 topped Season 6 by a clear margin (though it was by no means a landslide). But how much of that was because of the new writers? And which of the new writers were among the best (or among the

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No Random Facts today.

Thoughts & Opinions~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Don’t you hate it when you have oversensitive fire alarms? My dad was making dinner today, and while I was up in my room chilling, every freakin’ fire alarm in the house goes off at the same time.

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Well, considering the new writers of Season 7, I felt this list needed a revisiting and revising. Rest assured that the Top Five Best Writers will get the same treatment tomorrow. Here's the first version, from a season ago. Let's see what changed. And as always, I mean no disrespect to anyone at Hasbro or DHX.

5. Chris Savino (Episodes written: Boast Busters, Stare Master)

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