With the first half of Season 2 now concluded things seemed to be picking up for the show. The Brony fandom was already well established and new episodes were sparking speculation and re-watch threads within hours of them airing. Plus, the show was finally getting a home media release to give it wider attention. And to kick off the second half with style, Amy Keating Rogers was tapped for this episode. But then again, Amy's most recent outing had been the wasteful "The Cutie Pox" and before

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So after three Rarity episodes in the span of four (and in terms of original airdate three back to back), it was time to give someone else the spotlight. But it wasn't going to be another mane six member, and it wasn't really going to be a Cutie Mark Crusader either. Heck, it wasn't even going to be Spike. No, it was going to be the show's earliest stand out male character in Big Macintosh. Dave Polsky was on tap to write for this episode, which was by no means a guaranteed success after

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Season 5 finally got back on track with "Make New Friends, But Keep Discord" after several episodes worth of duds. And now it was time for the map introduced back in "The Cutie Map" (originally called "Cutie Markless") to come into play again for a new episode structure: Map missions. Amy Keating Rogers was writing this episode just after it had been announced that she would leave after Season 5 to work for Disney (no word on where she ended up). And considering Amy had up, then down and then

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Ever since I joined the site back in 2015, I've been churning out countless numbers of OCs, with many (if not most) of them being human.

I wonder...

If I were to have a pony OC representing me, (think self-insert), what would they be like?

Basically, what would my ponysona be if I were to have one? And should they be the 9th OC in the special story?

I need to sleep.

Season 4's second half was running the risk of causing Season 4's overall reputation to slide downhill. It seemed like all the creativity and interesting ideas from the first half had dried up and gone away, and what we were getting could never pass for above average at best. The last of the new writers for Season 4 debuted here with Noelle Benvenuti, also a relatively unheard of writer before this. And it was a Pinkie Pie episode, the first such since both "Pinkie Pride" and Pinkie's horribly

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Three movies in as many years for a spin-off that initially no one wanted or asked for. Interestingly, this one would not get a theatrical release like its predecessors, this was made for t.v. and then went straight to Netflix and home media. Although initially believed to be written by Meghan McCarthy, her designated successor Josh Haber was taking up the mantle, the first such changing of the guard for the Equestria Girls franchise. "Rainbow Rocks" was still widely praised by many within the

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Alongside "Lesson Zero" this was the first episode of the show that I saw when I decided to give it a try back in January of 2012 (though I had seen clips of various episodes before). Much like "Lesson Zero" this episode is often regarded as a classic and one of the best episodes for all of the characters involved. "Lesson Zero" lived up to the hype (albeit not entirely unscathed) so did this episode do the same, or did it end up like "The Return of Harmony" and "Luna Eclipsed" where despite

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Although information about the finale was revealed far in advance, back in 2012 no one saw even half of the stuff that would occur here coming. Trailers and promos for the finale were really vague and generic, about the only thing they gave away was supposed "cloning". Behind the scenes, however, this was the straw that broke the camel's back and made Lauren Faust decide to step down all together. Hasbro, undeterred, pushed ahead with their plans and Meghan McCarthy was tapped to write.

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The Nightmare Forces arc was half over by the time this comic came out and it had taken until now to even unveil the new antagonist in the form of Nightmare Rarity, and there were so many other things still lingering that weren't being elaborated on. So, was this comic able to put this arc on the right footing, or just indicate that it desperately needed more time on the backburner? Well, let's find out.

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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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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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Okay, I'm about to say something that I feel a little divided on; I don't see G5 in the same universe as G4. I just don't.

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So it is that we come to what was both the final Spike episode and the final Rarity episode. After nine seasons of inconsistent on and off teasing, you'd think that their last episode together would want to clarify once and for all the possibility of their relationship. Well, that's what was originally planned here. Originally, Spike would get over his crush on Rarity and that would be the focus of this episode. But for some reason, Josh Haber (who wrote this episode) decided against that in

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For the last arguably stand alone episode and the last before the big finale, we had this conclusion to both the Guys' Night trilogy started in Season 6 and the SugarMac trilogy started in Season 7. Both had had one good episode to their names in the seasons they started in, but had been part of the really cliche and uninspired "The Break Up Break Down" in Season 8. And a lot of people still weren't big fans of SugarMac. But ready or not, this episode was going to have that relationship move to

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My first few days on here are great, I love this website. The only thing is, I've been looking at some pfp's and they kinda caught my eye.

Before I say more I have nothing against people who use these pfp's or the people who make them, it's just my humble honest opinion.

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