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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Well, it's time. The special just dropped on Netflix this morning, and I imagine it's only a matter of time until people find a way to pirate it to online platforms so non Netflix users can see it. Kind of weird that Hasbro is choosing now of all times to commit so heavily to Netflix, not just for MLP but for Power Rangers as well. Netflix seems to be in danger of going the way of Blockbuster, the massive video store chain it eclipsed. Maybe Hasbro's just testing the waters for the time being

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So now it's onto the back half of the episodes released for Make Your Mark: Chapter 2 so far, maybe this second half can turn things around? Well, we've got a Hitch and Sunny episode, and Sunny certainly needs another focus episode, as does Hitch considering the way he was written back in "Growing Pains". Then again, the plot synopsis is one that FiM already did a couple of times, particularly in "A Royal Problem". But then again, "A Royal Problem" was controversial and remains hotly

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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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Now it's on to the six twenty two minute episodes. And although it goes without saying, if you haven't seen the episodes yet:

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So it is that we come to the end of another batch of episodes for Make Your Mark, sure seems like they just fly by don't they? I probably don't need to say it by now, but especially considering what this episode means going forward I'm going to say it anyway.

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So here it is, the final chapter of Make Your Mark. From this point onward, the G5 franchise is going solely with the YouTube Kids shorts series Tell Your Tale. For the record, I haven't watched any of the episodes of Tell Your Tale yet, and I have no desire to do so. Like with the Equestria Girls spin-off shorts, five minutes is not enough time to tell any meaningful stories. And Tell Your Tale's animation and art style have made it perfectly clear that it's a low production values series. So

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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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