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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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Having picked up the next two comics in this series, I can get a better view of where it's gonna go in its five issue run. The first one was a decent start up, though I wasn't the biggest fan of using the School of Friendship as a center piece for the plot because it feels too restrictive and again seems to make the whole thing look like a bad idea. I know the comics can do better, they were able to give Ocellus her day in the limelight she never got in the show, so they can work with the

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8). The Last Knight

7). Revenge of the Fallen

6). Age of Extinction

5). Transformers (2007)

4). Bumblebee

3). Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising

2). Dark of the Moon

1). The Transformers: The Movie (1986)

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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I love great slapstick. It's one of my favorite forms of comedy overall.

For those of you who haven't seen Make Your Mark: Chapter 2 yet, consider this your spoiler warning. I don't think I'm spoiling too much since all the songs got leaked online in full ahead of time (from the soundtrack), but I know some probably still haven't heard them yet.

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Yep, I'm sharing my political opinions. Folks who don't jive with that, keep scrolling. Everyone else who's interested, read on.

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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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Fluttershy is one of the characters who didn't have a singing double, Andrea Libman sang for her as well as voiced her. This may be because Andrea said in interviews that the Pinkie Pie voice took a tole on her, so just doing it must've strained her and made singing harder than with Fluttershy. Strangely enough though, Fluttershy has had nine songs to herself with two even technically coming from another persona of hers, giving her more than you would expect (and more than Rarity). Just like

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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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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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In case you haven't seen the movie yet, consider this your obligatory warning to stay away until you have seen it.

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Time to round out the original mane six roster with the only character to retain her name from the original drafts of the show, and sadly also the mane six member with the infamous reputation for being a "background pony" by fans. Apparently even Hasbro is having trouble with her, because there's talk of turning her into a bad girl from the wrong side of the tracks for G5. Naturally, given the fact that she tends to get the most throwaway episodes of the bunch, it's going to be difficult to

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