… while I do realize that the show is eventually going to end, why do you say that it will end after season 8, specifically? As it stands right now, it’s a popular franchise that is netting Hasbro a good deal of money – what practical reason would they have to end it?
To my knowledge, Hasbro tends to keep the current iterations of its properties running as long as they’re profitable and reboots them when they stop being so. They don’t pull the plug on a popular series just like that. A major decline in the show’s popularity (and I mean a serious, constant decline, not the usual rounds of fandom complaining every series gets) would be a much better indication of an upcoming cancellation than the show reaching an arbitrary number of seasons, seems to me.