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[@Hollowfox The Worst](/forums/pony/topics/pony-venting-thread?post_id=5254597#post_5254597)
Now I'm just confused. How are "it is statistically unlikely that there exists a single person who enjoys every single episode after S4" and "everyone hated everything after S4" remotely similar statements?
By way of illustration, it's possible for the consensus on the first two seasons to be that they were loved by everyone but committed contrarians _and_ that there were individual episodes within those two seasons that are either boring or "yeah, that kind of sucked". That doesn't make the first two seasons any less loved as a whole.

[@Background Pony \#895B](/forums/pony/topics/pony-venting-thread?post_id=5255094#post_5255094)
Two of those things happened after she had already established a fanbase


[@Twi Clown](/forums/pony/topics/pony-venting-thread?post_id=5254667#post_5254667)
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[@Latecomer](/forums/pony/topics/pony-venting-thread?post_id=5254661#post_5254661)[@Latecomer](/forums/pony/topics/pony-venting-thread?post_id=5254673#post_5254673)
If the writers had known that nine would be the number of seasons by the middle of S5, much of the later-season problems with series-wide pacing could have been avoided. Those were mostly from the M6 achieving what other shows would use as their "lived happily ever after" moment with two or three seasons remaining. IMO, if they wanted to transition the M6 out of the spotlight in favor of a new crop of protagonists, Dashie & Rarity were the two obvious ponies to offboard. Rainbow Dash is now a full-time Wonderbolt and no longer lives near Ponyville as her primary residence and Rarity is incessantly off on business. Actually, they wouldn't even need to be booted from the protagonists' club: FiM could've followed them in their new locations and dealt with the issue of reconnecting with old friends who moved away for career reasons as an ongoing topic instead of cramming that lesson into the series finale.


[@DerpyFast](/forums/pony/topics/pony-venting-thread?post_id=5254728#post_5254728)
> once you add the details that turn a stock character into rounded character, you’re basically stuck with those details
Or you have fans making inane fanon from sight gags and insisting they were more than a quick visual joke.

> I really need to do a huge writeup on the structure of Season One.
I'd like to read that.
> They don't fundamentally change as characters during the first season
IIRC, one of the goals of the original three seasons was for TV syndication. It's why S3 is short: 26+26+13=65, which is the magical TV number. That's 13 weeks of 5 days/week episodes that can (mostly) be shown in any order and repeated four times each year.
I do agree that such an arrangement is unsustainable. Perhaps they could've gotten a second season out of it, but the show _did_ need some form of lasting continuity. It's not a sitcom where resetting any and all changes between episodes is the expected genre convention.
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