I’ve been thinking a lot lately…..well….I’m always thinking,
but I’ve been doing a special kind of thinking, with regards to My Little Pony
Friendship is Magic. And this time I thought I would share my thoughts, as I
found them very intriguing. I was thinking about the characters of this
beautiful show, and their differences in each Season, and why that was, and
then I got to thinking about the friendship reports, and how they related to
the characters, and how they differed from Season to Season. Let’s take a moment
to talk about the friendship reports actually, while on the subject.
The friendship reports are a huge staple of the series, and
my personal favorite part of the show. These came at the end of every episode,
displaying a moral or message that was (usually) the central theme of the story
that had just been told. They tend to involve the main character in some way,
and tend to have some sort of lesson that they learn, but…..has it always been
like that? And is it still like that? Let us begin by taking a look at the
friendship reports from Season 1, to Season 2, to Season 3, look at how they
affect the characters, and how they and the characters have changed over the
course of the show.
Season 1
In Season 1, we first meet and see the friendship reports at
the end of episode 2; Friendship is Magic Part 2: The Elements of Harmony. At
the end of the episode, we see Celestia tell Twilight that she can continue
living in ponyville with her friends, but that she must continue to study the
magic of friendship in her interactions with her friends and ponyville.
This sets the stage for the morals and themes that would go
across the Season. Twilight writes each letter, telling Princess Celestia what
she’s learned about friendship. The letters are by Twilight only, and focus
more on herself and what she’s learned about friendship.
Season 2
In Season 2, the format of the friendship reports changes.
At the end of Lesson Zero, the 3rd episode of Season 2, we see all
of the mane 6 (except Twilight) go to Celestia and say how sorry they were for
not being considerate of Twilight’s feelings. This prompts Celestia to tell
Twilight she can turn a friendship report in whenever she wants, and also tells
the rest of the mane 6 that they can also send in friendship reports.
This sets the stage for the morals and themes of the Season
as well, and separates them from the format of Season 1. For unlike Season 1,
now all of the mane characters can write and send a friendship report, even Spike.
This causes us to get to see more of the other characters’ stories, and learn
more about them and really see what makes them tick.
Season 3
In Season 3, the friendship reports format doesn’t change
from Season 2 at all, however, if you watch the 2 Seasons side by side, you
will notice a distinct difference in the friendship reports, which is that;
Season 3 has practically no friendship reports. Of all 13 episodes in Season 3,
only 2 had friendship reports, all the others had none.
One could argue a reason for this might be that the morals
are simply told through means other than a friendship report, but I think there
may be a deeper underlying theme here….
The Theory
With that in mind, let’s now move on to the theory I present
about the themes of each season. Let’s see how the morals are told in each
season, and how that affects the morals and characters and their development.
Season 1: The
Introduction
In Season 1, the morals are all told by Twilight, who has just
moved to ponyville, and barely knows her friends. This means that the morals at
the end of each episode are not necessarily about a lesson for the characters,
they are simply a lesson that teaches us
about the characters, without them showing any kind of growth. As an example,
let’s look at the morals of the following Season 1 episodes:
Episode 7: Dragonshy:
I am happy to report
that the dragon has departed our fair country, and that it was my good friend
Fluttershy who convinced him to go. This adventure has taught me to never lose
faith in your friends. They can be an amazing source of strength, and can help
you overcome even your greatest fears.
Episode 15: Feeling Pinkie Keen:
I am happy to report
that I now realize there are wonderful things in this world you just can't
explain, but that doesn't necessarily make them any less true. It just means
you have to choose to believe in them. And sometimes it takes a friend to show
you the way.
Episode 19: A Dog and Pony Show:
Just because somepony
is lady-like doesn't make her weak. In fact, by using her wits, a seemingly
defenseless pony can be the one who outsmarts and outshines them all.
These are the 3 best examples of a moral that was simply
about introduction to the characters, and nothing more. In Dragonshy, we simply
learn that despite her being weak Fluttershy is strong and can be counted on,
but Fluttershy doesn’t learn anything or go through any sort of growth in the
episode, we just learn about her.
In Feeling Pinkie Keen, Twilight learns that just because
she doesn’t understand the way her friend works doesn’t mean she should just
ignore her unique ways. Pinkie however doesn’t learn anything or grow, in the
episode we simply learn about Pinkie’s character, and nothing more.
And in A Dog and Pony show, Rarity, the main character,
learns nothing at all, it is an episode about us learning that just because
someone acts lady like, they should not be underestimated, we learn about
Rarity, and that is all.
There are very few, if any episodes with this theme of
introduction in Seasons 2 and 3. This is because in Season 1, it was more about
Twilight learning about her friends, and as a result, we have episodes like the
above, in which even though the characters are the star of the episode, they
don’t learn anything. We simply learn about them, because Season 1 is when
we’re introduced to the characters and when we get to know who they really are.
What’s more, there are more episodes in Season 1 than the
other 2 seasons in which the main character doesn’t learn anything from the
moral. Here again, are some examples:
Episode 10: Swarm of the Century:
I've learned that
sometimes the solution to your problems can come from where you least expect
it. It's a good idea to stop and listen to your friends' opinions and
perspectives... Even when they don't always seem to make sense...
Episode 14: Suited for Success:
This week my very
talented friend Rarity learned that if you try to please everypony, you
oftentimes end up pleasing nopony, especially yourself. And I learned this:
when somepony offers to do you a favor, like making you a beautiful dress, you
shouldn't be overly critical of something generously given to you. In other
words, you shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth*giggle*.
Episode 16: Sonic Rainboom:
I learned how
important it is to keep your hooves on the ground, and be there for your
friends.
In the following episodes, we have a Pinkie episode, in
which the moral applied to all the main characters other than Pinkie, a Rainbow
Dash episode, in which Rarity was the one to learn a moral, and in Suited for
Success, we have a Rarity episode, where her friends seemed to learn more than
she did. In Season 1, just because an episode focuses on a character, doesn’t
mean that they will be the one who learns and grows. This is in stark contrast
to the way Season 2 and 3 do morals, in which every episode has the main
character learning something.
This was all done for the simple reason that, in Season 1,
the morals and characters were more about introduction,
and they weren’t as important to the characters. We are being introduced to
them, so we are the ones doing the learning, not them. We are learning about
them and friendship from them, while they aren’t learning as much, merely acting
as our means to learn. In Season 1, the morals introduce the characters, and the
characters stay themselves for the most part, with the morals being more about
general friendship.
Season 2: The
Growth
“Suddenly seemingly the lessons at the end of every episode threaten
the very essence of the ponies in question who would never be the same, can Fluttershy
not be shy, it’s in her name?”
-bbctol_sgap_S2 Pt. 2, the lyrics that first inspired me to write this huge
theory
After Season 1, comes Season 2, in which the morals are now
told by the 7 mane characters, not just Twilight, and where, as a result, we
get to dig more into the characters’ personalities and ways, and learn much
more about them, and also, we get to see the characters go through the most growth.
Unlike Season 1, where every now and then an episode came in
which the main character didn’t grow or learn anything, every single Season 2
episodes has the moral focused around the main character, and has them learning
something. In Season 2 each character episode is clearly and completely focused
on that character, a shift from Season 1, but for what reason?
To go off of that, let me point out 1 more thing that’s
significant about Season 2’s morals and characters. In Season 2, we see the
characters confront their greatest flaws.
Season 2 features the episodes in which Fluttershy confronts
her shyness directly, as well as the episodes in which Rainbow Dash learns to
be humble and not so proud and boastful of herself. They also feature the
episodes in which Twilight must learn to stop worrying so much, as well as
Pinkie learning to finally start being responsible when the time comes and
respecting others boundaries, even if she wants to help them. We also see Spike
finally confront and fight his dragon side, and learn to control himself and
resist urges of greed.
However, the 2 other mane characters, Rarity and Applejack,
don’t confront their greatest flaws and vices in Season 2, as they already
began to in Season 1. Of course despite that, the other characters confronting
their greatest flaws does still seem to be a theme of Season 2, and one could
argue that Season 2 is the season of which we see all the main characters at
their worst. This is because Season 2 was the season of growth.
Season 2 was when we first got to see characters other than
Twilight learn a lesson. As a result of this, we got to focus on the other
characters more, and learn more about what makes them tick. We got to see them
on their own, and also, got to see them at their worst. We got to learn more
about what troubles them so much and why, and as a result, Season 2 was where
they grew the most. After being introduced to them in Season 1, Season 2 sees
the characters we now know grow.
Season 3: The
Payoff
This brings us to Season 3, which followed after Season 2,
the growth, where the friendship reports seemed to begin disappearing. As you
might be able to guess by the underlined word above you, Season 3’s theme of
morals and characters, going from introduction, to growth, is payoff.
Season 3 is the season in which we see the growth we saw
from Season 2 and even 1, and we see the result of those growths, in which the
characters succeed in the real world as a result of their maturity. In contrast
to Season 2 when we see the characters at their worst, Season 3 is where we see
the characters at their best.
In Season 3 we see Rainbow Dash succeed as a result of
learning to not go too far from Season 2, we see Fluttershy able to be
assertive when the time calls for it, and we see Twilight taking measures to
work at her worriness and see her ultimately succeed more than anyone else. We
see little to no friendship reports in Season 3 because, a lot of the lessons
are ones they already learned, and the stories focus more on the characters
doing their best to improve things for themselves and the world, with no new lesson
needed.
The Characters
Now that I’ve gone over the theory I have for all 3 seasons,
and how they differ and connect, let’s go over the characters, and see how they
flow through this 3 part process I’ve detailed. There are 4 mane characters for
which my theory works very well, so I shall go over them first;
Twilight Sparkle
– Twilight fits this 3 arc theory very well, due to the nature of her episodes
throughout the 3 seasons. In Season 1, we see her character, and are introduced
to her. We learn she is one who likes studies, and as a result isn’t very
social, and has trouble functioning in social environments like Boast Busters
and Winter Wrap Up. We also learn she likes Celestia a lot and really wants to
please her from A Bird in the Hoof and At the Gala, and that she takes her
studies very seriously.
We’re introduced to Twilight in Season 1, but that doesn’t
mean we don’t see her grow. We see her learn about friendship and grow as she
goes on adventures throughout ponyville, and also grow a bit herself as a
person, learning in Boast Busters to be herself around others, and in Winter
Wrap Up to know she can find a special talent and way to fit in anywhere in the
real world. Interestingly, Season 1 gives off the impression that Twilight’s
greatest flaw is her inability to work well in real world and social
situations. But then in Season 2, her greatest flaw is shown to be her anxiety
and overworryness. I’m not sure why that is, or if perhaps they combine into 1
or something, but inevitably, we don’t see Twilight at her worst until Lesson
Zero.
In enters Season 2, in which we see Twilight fall apart,
stressed from worry and anxiety, we see her at her craziest. As a result, this
is also the Season in which Twilight finds what she must grow the most from in
herself. She learns what she needs to work on if she wants to improve, and we
do as well.
Then comes Season 3, in which we see the payoff of her
growth from Season 2, as well as some more growth. In The Crystal Empire she
learns that it’s time to grow up and start thinking of what the best thing for
the world is, and not what’s best for her studies or some game or test. And
after that we see a lot of payoff in Magic Duel. In Magic Duel, despite being
thrown out of ponyville with Celestia gone, Twilight stays level headed, not
freaking out, and goes to Zecora, being open to new ways of learning rather
than sticking to her own ways and being stubborn. We also have the climax of
the episode, in which Twilight wins using her friends, something she’s learned
and grown to use in the first 2 Seasons.
We also see some of the payoff in Games Ponies Play, in
which we see Twilight trying not to freak out, and using a simple technique to
remain calm and cool, and she’s able to not freak out from the episode as a
result, which makes her able to help the issue of the episode in a calm
rational manner, a wonderful payoff from her falls in Season 2.
And finally, more than ever, what makes Season 3 the season
of payoff, is the ending, in which we see the payoff for all of Twilight’s
growth throughout the 3 seasons. Now that she’s grown and learned so much and
come so far, she is ready to become an alicorn, and rewarded for all her
troubles and adventures she’s been through, and it ends her development
perfectly.
Rainbow Dash –
Next is Rainbow, who also fits this formula very well. Rainbow Dash is
introduced to us in the first Season, and only really has one episode to her,
though she also had a major role in Griffon the Brush Off and Fall Weather
Friends, and maybe even Over a Barrel. But in Season 1, we don’t see too much
growth from her character. Heck, in her big episode, Sonic Rainboom, Rainbow
didn’t learn anything, because that’s not what the episode was about. It was
about showing Rainbow as a strong fast determined yet boastful pony, who when
put in situations when she must live up to the high expectations she sets for
herself, can break down. It wasn’t about having Rainbow grow, it was about
introducing her to us, the viewers, and it succeeded beautifully. We did see
Rainbow learn some things in Fall Weather Friends and Over a Barrel though,
which consequently Applejack also learned, but the latter wasn’t huge for her
character, while the former was, albeit being a little general.
Then comes Season 2, in which, like Twilight, we see Rainbow
at her worst. Here is when her boastfulness and confidence goes a little into
overdrive, most prominently in The Mysterious Mare Do Well, and even in May the
Best Pet Win and Read It and Weep, though in the latter it’s more subtle, in
the simple way that Rainbow cares so much about her image, which no doubt gives
her much confidence.
Now, let’s forget execution for a moment here, and look
purely at the concept of these episodes, as I know many want one of these
episode’s head on a stick. All of these episodes didn’t just show Rainbow at
her worst, but showed her key growth. She learns that it’s what’s inside that
counts in May the Best Pet Win, and again in Read It and Weep, where she learns
to be less insecure about her beliefs and ways, which helps her to be less
boastful. And in Mare Do Well, we see her learn to stay humble, and not let
praise go to her head, and to keep her head on the ground, and remember to
focus on what’s really important, as opposed to her own ego.
In a way we see the result of all this growth in Hurricane
Fluttershy, a late Season 2 episode, but we don’t see the full payoff at its
best until Season 3, with Wonderbolt Academy.
In Wonderbolt Academy, we see Lightning Dust, who I like to
think of as, Rainbow Dash before Season 2. Without the growth of Season 2,
Lightning is more proud and boastful, and also less considerate of others’
feelings, which leads to her being expelled. This is where we see Rainbow shine
more than ever, and her payoff from Season 2, in which she’s more rational than
Lightning about others’ feelings, and is sure not to push herself too hard or
go too far, as we saw what happened when she did that in May the Best Pet Win.
Rainbow has some other Season 3 moments too, in Sleepless in
Ponyville and Games Ponies Play. In these, Rainbow learns not to force her ideals
on others, as well as to be nice to Scootaloo when the time calls, and lend her
an open wing, if you will. The former is more growth, while the latter may again,
be the result of her Season 2 experiences in May the Best Pet Win and Read It
and Weep, learning to give those that may not seem great at first a chance,
again, payoff.
Fluttershy – Next
comes Fluttershy, who also fits this formula very well. Fluttershy had quite a
bit of Season 1 episodes, featuring Dragonshy, Stare Master, Green Isn’t Your
Color, and A Bird in the Hoof. The key point here is Fluttershy’s very first
episode, Dragonshy. In Dragonshy, Fluttershy learns and grows not at all, like
Sonic Rainboom, it is merely an introductory episode. In Dragonshy, we simply
learn that despite being shy and meek, Fluttershy can still stand up for her
friends when the time calls for it. This is an episode where we are being
introduced to Fluttershy, and not when we are seeing her grow in any way. The 3
episodes that come after serve to start her growth though. We see her learn not
to bite more than she can chew, to be more honest with her friends, and not to
jump to assumptions. While these were all nice parts of growth, none were quite
big enough to show a huge change in her, that is, until Season 2.
And Season 2 is where we see Fluttershy at her worst. We see
her so shy that all the ponies and animals walk all over her, and we see her
unable to fly at all from her fear of stage fright and bullying. Again, let’s
ignore the execution of her Season 2 episodes and focus on the concept. These
episodes were about Fluttershy dealing with her shyness, and learning to be
assertive and overcome her stage fright. These were where Fluttershy faces her
greatest flaw, and where she grows the most, as we see in Season 3.
In Season 3 Fluttershy has but one episode, but it is enough
to show her growth. In Keep Calm and Flutter On, we see Fluttershy at her very
best, as she tries to reform Discord, and sticks to her ways through all
trouble. She’s able to be assertive without going too far, and we see this most
of all in the climax. In the climax, she tells Discord she won’t be his friend
anymore, but then simply walks away silently, sticking to her word, but not
rubbing it in or saying more, just like her at the end of Putting Your Hoof
Down. The result of this growth is that she’s able to drive the point home to
Discord without coming off as too soft or too hard, and as a result, Fluttershy
is able to reform the great and powerful Discord, despite what everyone else
thought. It’s something she only could have done with her growth in Season 2,
and shows the payoff of the development she’s been through.
Spike – And
finally comes the little baby dragon Spike, who also fits this theory
surprisingly well, for someone who was at first a minor character. In Season 1,
Spike only has 1 episode, but this isn’t even where we’re introduced to him.
For in Season 1, we see Spike in many episodes, and learn about him there. He’s
a baby dragon who’s Twilight’s assistant, given to her by Celestia, who has a
more laid back sarcastic personality compared to Twilights. We simply see and
learn about Spike in this manner through Season 1, learning more of his
relationship with Twilight in Owl’s Well That Ends Well, but we do not learn
about his greatest weakness until Season 2; his dragon side.
Season 2 is where we learn what Spike’s greatest trial will
be, and is also where we see him at his worst. For Season 2 is where we see
Spike give in to his dragon temptation, greed, and become a terrible huge
monster like dragon that almost destroys all of ponyville. But this is not the
only great growth he goes through in Season 2, Spike also goes through his
great identity crisis. For, in being the only dragon in ponyville, it’s not
hard to think that Spike will have lots of trouble fitting in, and not help but
feel left out and alone at times. And Dragon Quest is when Spike fully accepts
that, just because he’s a dragon doesn’t mean he stands out, or is any less
greater than the ponies he lives with. These are 2 developments crucial to his
character that, show Spike at his most lost, and his greediest.
Season 3 is then in many ways the payoff of these growths,
and this is most present in the very first Season 3 episode. For in The Crystal
Empire Spike stays close with Twilight and the gang, while never coming off as
clingy like in Owl or feeling distant like in Dragon Quest. Spike stays by
Twilight’s side as a sidekick rather than a #1 assistant, which results in him
being a perfect aid to Twilight whenever she needs help, as we see throughout
the episode and in its climax.
One might even argue that Just for Sidekicks links in with
this. For while Spike deals with Greed yet again and cares about his gems too
much, he’s not afraid to let them go when he feels he must, and does not fall
as far as he does in Secret of My Excess, perhaps showing he’s learned a bit in
controlling his greed. Spike at Your Service is the one episode that seems to
not fit in with this, but I will touch on this later. Until then, know that
Season 3 has payoff for Spike as we see him growing to better help his friends
in ponyville when they need support.
This leaves 3 other main characters, who do not fit this
theory as well, but still do in some ways; Pinkie, Rarity, and Applejack.
Pinkie Pie – Let
us start with the one who fits the most, Pinkie Pie. The first episode we see
staring Pinkie is Griffon the Brush Off, where we see what her bubbly nature
can cause problems with, and see her learn a lesson about inaction, though we
won’t see her learn for a while afterwards. For in Pinkie’s next 2 episodes;
Swarm of the Century and Feeling Pinkie Keen, Pinkie has zero growth. This is
because we are learning about Pinkie here, and being introduced to her
character. We are learning about her crazy zany ways and how they work in the
real world, and how to adapt to them. Next we see Pinkie learn something in
Party of One, and even then, the episodes serves more as one to introduce the
other side of Pinkie, rather than to have Pinkie grow from a great flaw of hers.
Regardless of the paranoia Pinkie learns from in Party of
One, Season 2 is where we see Pinkie dealing with what she is perhaps worst at;
being responsible, respecting other’s spaces and differences, and learning not
to jump to conclusions in an energetic manner. Pinkie learns all of these
important lessons, in the hopes of now being more grown up and able to be
serious and respectful and calm when the time comes.
Season 3 then ends up actually having some pay off for
Pinkie. In her episode, Too Many Pinkies Pies, we see her considerate of her
friends when she plays in the lake quietly for Rainbow, is open to Fluttershy’s
butterfly method to calm her down, and is very considerate of her friends when
things go too far, and doesn’t dodge the fact that, what happened was her fault.
In the same way that I like to think of Lightning Dust as Season 1 Rainbow, I
like to think of the Pinkie clones as Season 1 Pinkie, Pinkie who’s not as
considerate of others and can’t take responsibility for her actions. Though it
could also just be the clones, and Pinkie still has much to learn as we see in
the episode, but it does show some payoff and growth for her character from
previous Seasons.
Rarity – Next comes
Rarity, who follows the path in some ways, but some not. Season 1 stays with
its introduction theme, most present in A Dog and Pony show. For in A Dog and
Pony show, we are simply introduced to Rarity’s more clever strong side, that
one might not think is there due to her feminine nature, and also Rarity learns
nothing, showing this was clearly meant to show her off. Suited for Success is
also an episode mostly meant to introduce her. We have a beautiful song to show
off her passion for her craft, and get to see the kind of beautiful dresses she
makes, as well as get a taste for the world she lives in.
The final Rarity episode, Green Isn’t Your Color, begins her
great growth, which we see continued in Season 2. Here we see Rarity faced with
the dilemma of choosing between her friends being pleased, or having herself
succeeding in status as she’d like to. In the end she learns to be honest to
her friends, and we see this theme continued in Sweet and Elite, her big Season
2 episode.
In Sweet and Elite we see Rarity again faced with choosing
between her friends and fame, and again, she lies to keep up her good image,
showing perhaps her greatest flaw, and what she’ll have to work at the most. In
the end she once again is honest, and learns that she must stay true to herself
and not try to change, continuing the theme from Green Isn’t Your Color.
But she has another Season 2 episode, Sisterhooves Social,
in which we see Rarity’s trouble with her sister, where she learns to be nice
to her and give her some time and fun. Some introduction to her family life and
growth at the same time, it feels in many ways like one that’s better suited
for the season of introduction, but alas!
After that comes Season 3, where um……Rarity has no episode,
so……we can’t really have any idea if her growth and development has payed off.
It will certainly be something to look forward to in Season 4. Though with
Rarity getting some introduction in Season 2 and growth in 1, she certainly
doesn’t fit the theory as well as the others, but alas. ^^
Applejack – And
last (but certainly not least) comes Applejack. Applejack is the one sore thumb
among the 7, in that her entire development can be traced to constant constant
growth, with her greatest sign of payoff being…..in Season 2!
Applejack starts off in Applebuck Season, where we not only
learn about her, but also see her greatest flaw; her stubbornness. We see her
learn to be less stubborn and open to the ideas of others, a key growth that
will continue throughout every single one of her episodes. For in Roundup in
Season 2 we see her too stubborn to admit her mistakes and go home a non
winner, and in Apple Family Reunion in Season 3 we see her too sure of herself
that the reunion is about the what rather than the who, which causes loads of
trouble. The only time we see any sort of significant payoff for AJ’s character
is in Season 2, in The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000.
In Cider, we see her struggling in the competition against
the Flim Flam brothers, and we see her friends come to her aid. Instead of
staying to doing things her way, she ponders it, and then welcomes the mane 6
to help and be a part of her family, showing she has learned to let others help
when it’s needed, a wonderful growth, but again, that happens in Season 2, and
not 3. While it doesn’t fit my theory completely, it does if we think of what
comes after payoff.
There is one thing that can be concluded from not just
Applejack, but the developments of the other characters too. That is the
pattern most stories go with for character development, and that the series
will likely retain, which is Introduction -> Growth -> Payoff ->
Growth -> Payoff.
You are introduced to characters and learn about them, then
you see them grow and face that which troubles them the most, then you see them
overcome those and succeed as a result of that growth, and then you see that
succeeding brings more growth to be had, and that’s what’s happened here.
Now that Twilight is an alicorn she must learn what it’s
like to be one and now has to grow even more. Now that Rainbow Dash is in the
Wonderbolts Academy she’ll have to learn to live at the academy and learn what
being a wonderbolt really means. Now that Fluttershy has reformed Discord she
must learn how to keep him reformed and give him freedom, but perhaps not too
much, and how to manage others. And now that Spike has learned to accept himself
as a resident of ponyville despite being a dragon, we see the result of this
when Spike invents his own code to separate him from normal dragons in Spike at
Your Service. The payoff that resulted from all of their growth brings more
potential to grow, and more problems that must now be dealt with. It’s a never
ending cycle of growth and payoff and growth and payoff, which is in a sense,
just the way life is, and how you, me, and everyone else grows as we go through
life, so it fits beautifully.
Thus concludes my theory and analysis. I hope you enjoyed
this write up, and I look forward to thinking and discussing more about the
themes and developments of this show and its many wonderful characters. I look
forward to doing that as we all continue to grow ourselves, and see what that
brings us, until then, have some pictures, and I’ll see you when fate decides
to cross our paths again.
P.S. There’s also one other group of main characters I didn’t
mention who fit this well. The CMC are introduced in Season 1, and don’t do
much growth, as we see in their episodes, and are just there for us to see how
they interact. Then in Season 2, we see them actually learning and growing and
messing up, they actually fall quite a bit in Ponyville Confidential. Then in
Season 3, I’m not sure if we see results of this growth in One Bad Apple, but
we do see the CMC finally succeeding in the real world, and gaining a new
member, and expanding the CMC to manehatten, payoff for what they’ve been
through in past seasons.
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