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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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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We covered the characters, now it's time to cover the songs of the movie. I will not be counting the ponyfication of "We Got The Beat", because it's not an original song composed for the movie (and in my opinion it's a pretty lazy way to open the movie, what would've been wrong with an instrumental opening?). That means there's a total of seven songs to count. And obviously, the rankings are a reflection of my personal opinion. So don't get upset if a song you really liked is low on the list,

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Time to bring these updated rankings to a close. Let's see how the episodes of Season 7 stack up now compared to how they did at the end of Season 7. As always, this list is the result of my personal opinion, so please respect it. And don't hesitate to ask if you want to know why a certain episode ends up where it does. Here's the first version, let's see what changed.

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Alongside Christmas and Valentine's Day, Halloween is the only holiday to get a pony equivalent. Ever since the second season we've had it established as Nightmare Night. We've actually only had two official episodes take place on the holiday, but just like with Hearts and Hooves Day for Valentine's Day there are some episodes that could be said to have a Halloween feel to them (of course, not just any episode taking place at night or involving spooky imagery will qualify).

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From Season Premieres to Season Finales, just as it's important to start off on a good note it's equally important to end on a good note. You've heard people complain all the time about how bad endings can ruin a movie or a video game, and the same can hold true for shows. Sometimes all it can take is one bad finale to irreversably damage your following and aliennate fans. But of the 8 finales to consider, which ones stood out the most for better or for worse, and why? How did the finales

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Discord was the first (but certainly not the last) major villain to get reformed and was also the first guest star character (voiced by John DeLancie). Perhaps fitting for a spirit of chaos he'd had many ups and downs over the course of his many episodes, all 16 of them. And today we're going to be looking at how they stack up, which ones do him justice and which ones are insults to his character. There are no hybrid episodes to consider this time, every episode he's appeared in counts as his

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This list is the hardest of all to do because not only does Applejack have the least amount of expys at five (tied with Rarity) but she also has very little in the way of actual expys that can truly count because she has so little character (she's a farmer, she's stubborn, she's down to earth, that's it). One of these expys is from Equestria Girls, but it's hard to truly define where these expys should line up even though this is the result of my personal opinion. And no, Sandbar doesn't count

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People often refer to "Owl's Well That Ends Well", "Dragon Quest", and "Spike At Your Service" as part of an unholy trilogy or trio of episodes. So I think it's nice to look at some trilogies that are actually you know.... good. The Guys Night Trilogy refers to the three episodes centered on Spike, Big Macintosh, and Discord, while the SugarMac Trilogy refers to the three episodes focusing on the SugarMac relationship. Since both trilogies ultimately share two episodes there really is no point

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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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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)

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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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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With two more chapters of Make Your Mark having come and gone now, it's time to update a few lists to reflect on what's changed. I would do one ranking the main cast now that Comet has joined, but all that would really change is that Comet would be on the bottom: He's a blank slate that we know very little about, even Pipp has more of a defined character and personality than he does (not that that's saying much given Pipp's problems). So instead, we're starting with an update ranking every

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I really rather enjoyed this season. In fact, I enjoyed it so much I rather wanted to share which episodes I liked best.

Because I can!

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Despite not having a lot of new stallions introduced us to this season, most of the current stallions got a lot more love this time around compared to the previous seasons. Two in particular got a massive amount of screen time, and one was even given a much needed day in the limelight.

Anyway, here is the second version, time to see what's changed.

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These Top Ten and Top Five lists are winding down, but I wanted to end them on a positive note and not a negative one. So today we're going to look at the five writers who just haven't been able to click with the show for one reason or another, and tomorrow we'll take a look at the five writers who've managed to either pull out the most consistent streaks of writing or cranked out some of the best episodes of the show. Like every list, this one is not official by any means,

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Season 6 didn't have a whole lot of songs, not counting reprises we only got 11 of them and almost half came from one episode. I think now I know why "The Fault In Our Cutie Marks" was really delayed to be the nineteenth episode to air, if it had aired as the ninth episode, the last episode this season to feature a song would've been the seventeenth episode and that would've meant we'd have gone almost ten episodes without one! Naturally, it's going to make ranking the songs a

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I used to do these with my season overviews, but that always took a lot of time, so I figured it was better to explore the new characters and how they all stack up here. While there are plenty of characters that could qualify, I'm only including ones that had a noticeable presence and/or we know their names (some were not named on screen but recieved a name in the credits. This sadly disqualifies a majority of the cast of "Viva Las Pegasus" hard to talk about ponies when we

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Now that we've gotten more episodes, it's time to rank them with the rest of the episodes of the show. We've got a whopping 129 episodes to rank, so naturally trying to explain in detail why each one ends up where it does would take forever! If you want to know why an episode ends up where it does, feel free to ask. And remember, this list is by no means official, you're more than welcome to make your own if you disagree with me.

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