Well then. I feel like it's pretty safe to say that ever since FiM ended, the world's gone to hell in a hand basket and I haven't been able to piece enough of anything together to post any writing. Coincidence? Probably, but that link's always fun to claim. Anyhow, we've all heard about the G4.5 spinoff Pony Life by now. I imagine protozoa on the surface of Mercury could hear the uproar when it was first announced. My personal thoughts over the last few months on it...Honestly, I wasn't getting

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You ever had one of those moments where everything's going to hell, you're feeling low and all the good stuff in life seems to have abandoned you, only for a small someone to come completely out of left field and lift you back up enough to keep going? With everything going on in 2020 and my personal situation not getting any better. Out of a nowhere that relied on me not seeing the leaked scripts (I didn't), FiM comes with one more gift for us. Even if it comes in the form of clipshows (which

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In late April 2012 I was housesitting and had a weekend of nothing to do. I was aware of ponydom but had dismissed it as an invasive species toward my favourite artists online. I have no idea how my thought process went during that morning but, at some point I ended up going to youtube and saying to myself "Might as well see what all the fuss is about." Seven and a half years later (or yesterday) and I sat down in a booth at UK Ponycon with my two best friends, ready to see where this journey

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The regular episodes of the show have been a funny thing. We got our first one a little over nine years ago with The Ticket Master and, it's kind of surreal to think how much has changed and how far the lead 7 have come since then. There've been good episodes, bad episodes, funny eps, emotional ones and everything in-between (I never really thought about it but I don't think my top 10 episodes have ever included a premiere or finale). Now here we are, with the last two regular episodes of the

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Welcome to the end game. Just seven episodes to go until G4 wraps up and...I'm excited. Sad. Exsaded. I may be getting ahead of myself a bit but, there's a real chance this final run could end up being the longest streak of good episodes in the show. For me the record currently stands at 9 in a row (S5's midseason, Amending Fences to Hearthbreakers), going into these we're sitting at 4 with a maximum run of 11 available. I'm hopeful, I'm ready to talk about two more episodes, and I'm sure not

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So, I decided to look at the writer list for the season (since that's not really much of a spoiler) and turns out pretty much everyone's had their last chance already. With the exception of Haber, Dubuc and Vogel's power trio, every writer in this season only got one episode. Aside from Joanna Lewis and Kristine Songo but when it's a 2-parter, it's basically the same. The point is, a lot of good (and okay) writers have already wrapped up their time with the show and I had no idea. It's quite

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It only really sunk in for me a few days ago. We're into the true final stretch of FiM now...At this point there's only 9 episodes left and I'm not holding my breath on there being another special or any connection to the 2021 movie. On the plus side, there's still 9 episodes left and despite the deluge of early releases and spoilers, I'm going in blind on each of them. All I know is, I'm probably gonna enjoy them, and I've got two more to talk about right now.

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Well everyone, here we are. The true final run to the end of the show begins now. Honestly, I don't think it's quite sunk in yet for me. It doesn't feel like the end of everything yet, not when there's so many ideas still kicking around in the fandom side of things. Heck, I said I was done and yet I still found myself coming up with story ideas last night. So in my eyes, FiM isn't gonna be over for quite some time, so I'm just gonna enjoy what little showtime we have left and dive straight back

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Well, here we are at another of the final moments. The last hiatus, and it's gonna be a short one if the little I've heard is any indication. So far this season has been up there in terms of quality. One or two bumps in the road as always, but certainly challenging S7 for the best season so far. Bonus, we got an even longer special to go with it (Yep, somehow I completely failed to realise that this one really was an hour long). Here's hoping they can both round out the first half of the season

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Funny how things work out. The time I plan for three episodes in two weekends, first the Canadian releases never appeared and then my viewing of episode 13 is delayed by my viewing buddy being out of contact...So sod it, thoughts on 13 are being pushed back to a pre-show event for the thoughts on Rainbow Roadtrip post. Couple that with my gran going into hospital in the interim and the general ridiculousness that's been filling everything for the past week and, yeah. Let's just get on with this

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