My Little Pony Friendship is Magic

Favourite pony out of the main bunch?

  • Twilight Sparkle

    Votes: 25 16.7%

  • Pinkie Pie

    Votes: 28 18.7%

  • Applejack

    Votes: 13 8.7%

  • Rainbow Dash

    Votes: 31 20.7%

  • Rarity

    Votes: 18 12.0%

  • Fluttershy

    Votes: 35 23.3%
  • Total voters
    150
So I finally finished my Season 3 Challenge version of the episode comparisons. And this became the final results.

ROUND 1
Friendship is Magic, Part 1 Vs. Suited for Success Vs. Crystal Empire, Part 1
Friendship is Magic, Part 2 Vs. Feeling Pinkie Keen Vs. Crystal Empire, Part 2
Ticket Master Vs. Sonic Rainboom Vs. Too Many Pinkie Pies
Stare Master Vs. Luna Eclipsed Vs. One Bad Apple
Griffon the Brush-Off Vs. A Friend in Deed Vs. Magic Duel
Boast Busters Vs. Putting Your Hoof Down Vs. Sleepless in Ponyville
Green Isn't Your Color Vs. May the Best Pet Win Vs. Wonderbolt Academy
Mysterious Mare-Do-Well Vs. Dragon Quest Vs. Apple Family Reunion
A Bird in a Hoof Vs. Sweet and Elite Vs. Spike at your Service
Swarm of the Century Vs. Ponyville Confidential Vs. Keep Calm and Flutter On
Owl's Well That Ends Well Vs. Hearth's Warming Eve Vs. Just for Sidekicks
Call of the Cutie Vs. Party of One Vs. Games Ponies Play
Fall Weather Friends Vs. Best Night Ever Vs. Magical Mystery Cure

ROUND 2
Suited for Success Vs. Return of Harmony, Part 1 Vs. The Last Round-Up
Crystal Empire, Part 2 Vs. Return of Harmony, Part 2 Vs. Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000
Sonic Rainboom Vs. Lesson Zero Vs. Read It and Weep
Luna Eclipsed Vs. Applebuck Season Vs. Hearts and Hooves Day
Magic Duel Vs. Sisterhooves Social Vs. Show Stoppers
Sleepless in Ponyville Vs. Cutie Pox Vs. A Dog and Pony Show
Wonderbolt Academy Vs. Dragonshy Vs. It's About Time
Dragon Quest Vs. Look Before You Sleep Vs. Over a Barrel
Sweet and Elite Vs. Bridle Gossip Vs. Hurricane Fluttershy
Ponyville Confidential Vs. Secret of my Excess Vs. Cutie Mark Chronicles
Just For Sidekicks Vs. Winter Wrap-Up Vs. MMMystery at the Friendship Express
Party of One Vs. Family Appreciation Day Vs. Canterlot Wedding, Part 1
Magical Mystery Cure Vs. Baby Cakes Vs. Canterlot Wedding, Part 2

FINAL SCORE
SEASON 1: 12.5
SEASON 2: 12.5
SEASON 3: 14​

Now I know what you're thinking...

Does this mean I now think Season 3 is the best season of the show?
Does this mean I think Season 1 and Season 2 are now equal?

…No it does not

I realized late that the scoring system I had in place could in no way end in how much I feel about each season. Although Season 3 won in the end it was quite close. If Season 1 or Season 2 had got 1.5 points more then they would have won overall. As likely something of those 1.5 would come at the expense of a Season 3 episode. What the scoring really proved though, is that when given a chance, Season 3 can matchup with the previous seasons. Seasons 1 and 2 I realize were pretty much nerfed by the way this game goes. Seasons 1 and 2 often had to face eachother in rematches that for the most part for the exception of Boast Busters Vs. Cutie Pox and Bridle Gossip Vs. Sweet and Elite in the winner of the last match winning again. Plus in each season, the Seasons also were basically in Civil War in some matchups that led to the season getting less points they they really could be having. If it's any better, I have an alternative scoring method that might provide a much more accurate result. How is it done?

Well let me first explain my going for the first 5 episodes we had

Friendship is Magic, Part 1
Suited for Success
Return of Harmony, Part 1
The Last Round-Up
Crystal Empire, Part 1

The winner of the Round 1 matchup was Suited for Success, because it was an episode that moved on the worst it could get is 3rd place. Friendship is Magic, Part 1 and Crystal Empire, Part 1 however are doomed to stay in the basement that is 4th-5th place. While the two episodes that sit comfortably in Round Two are also promised a Top 3 spot. At least in this case, there's a few episodes where my opinion has changed to the point where an episode that would get 4th place if I restricted myself only to this ruling to take the 3rd spot instead. But that episode still can not reach the Top 2. As for the Point scaling? Let's rank them now

1. Return of Harmony, Part 1 (Season 2 is given 2 Points)
2. The Last Round-Up (Season 2 is given 1.5 Points)
3. Suited for Success (Season 1 is given 1 Point)
4. Crystal Empire, Part 1 (Season 3 is given a half/.5 point)
5. Friendship is Magic, Part 1 (Season 1 is given no points)

That's the gist of it. What will now follow is all the corresponding groups of five as a result of their numeric order will be given a score, an attempt at giving a witty title for each group, and a total score that gets bigger and bigger as each is shown

Purple = Season 1
Orange = Season 2
Blue = Season 3

EPISODES 1 & 14 (AKA Openers & Hallmarks)

1. Return of Harmony Part 1
2. Last Round-Up
3. Suited for Success
4. Crystal Empire Part 1
5. Friendship is Magic Part 1

S1: 1 (+1)
S2: 3.5 (+3.5)
S3: .5 (+.5)

EPISODES 2 & 15 (AKA Openers & Mixed Up Morality)

1. Crystal Empire Part 2
2. Return of Harmony Part 2
3. Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000
4. Friendship is Magic Part 2
5. Feeling Pinkie Keen

S1: 1.5 (+.5)
S2: 6 (+2.5)
S3: 2.5 (+2)

EPISODES 3 & 16 (AKA Establishers)

1. Lesson Zero
2. Read It and Weep
3. Sonic Rainboom
4. Too Many Pinkie Pies
5. Ticket Master

S1: 2.5 (+1)
S2: 9.5 (+3.5)
S3: 3 (+.5)

EPISODES 4 & 17 (AKA Apple Children Holidays)

1. Applebuck Season
2. Hearts and Hooves Day
3. Luna Eclipsed
4. One Bad Apple
5. Stare Master

S1: 4.5 (+2)
S2: 12 (+2.5)
S3: 3.5 (+.5)

EPISODES 5 & 18 (AKA Jerks, Ignorance, and Apple Pie)

1. Magic Duel
2. Sisterhooves Social
3. Show Stoppers
4. Griffon the Brush-Off
5. Friend in Deed

S1: 6 (+1.5)
S2: 13.5 (+1.5)
S3: 5.5 (+2)

EPISODES 6 & 19 (AKA More Jerks, More Ignorance, and Scootalove)

1. Sleepless in Ponyville
2. A Dog and Pony Show
3. Boast Busters
4. Cutie Pox
5. Putting Your Hoof Down

S1: 8.5 (+2.5)
S2: 14 (+.5)
S3: 7.5 (+2)

EPISODES 7 & 20 (AKA How Rainbow Dash has Changed in Three Seasons & Dim Twilight moments)

1. Wonderbolt Academy
2. Dragonshy
3. It's About Time
4. Green Isn't Your Color
5. May the Best Pet Win

S1: 10.5 (+2)
S2: 15 (+1)
S3: 9.5 (+2)

EPISODES 8 & 21 (AKA Pick Your Poison)

1. Over a Barrel
2. Look Before You Sleep
3. Dragon Quest
4. Apple Family Reunion
5. Mysterious Mare-Do-Well

S1: 14 (+3.5)
S2: 16 (+1)
S3: 10 (+.5)

EPISODES 9 & 22 (AKA Smart Episodes get Hurricane Fluttershy on their report cards, Very Weak episodes get Spike at your Service on theirs. The rest are passing grades)

1. Hurricane Fluttershy
2. Sweet and Elite
3. Bridle Gossip
4. A Bird in a Hoof
5. Spike At Your Service

S1: 15.5 (+1.5)
S2: 19.5 (+3.5)
S3: 10 (+0)

EPISODES 10 & 23 (AKA M.A.-ra-thon)

1. Cutie Mark Chronicles
2. Secret of my Excess
3. Ponyville Confidential
4. Keep Calm and Flutter On
5. Swarm of the Century

S1: 17.5 (+2)
S2: 22 (+2.5)
S3: 10.5 (+.5)

EPISODES 11 & 24 (AKA Spike might be getting Coal this Christmas. But ironically it's probably tasty for him)

1. Winter Wrap-Up
2. Just For Sidekicks
3. Hearth's Warming Eve
4. MMMystery at the Friendship Express
5. Owl's Well That Ends Well

S1: 19.5 (+2)
S2: 23.5 (+1.5)
S3: 12 (+1.5)

EPISODES 12 & 25 (AKA One Big Episode but not too big so that you want more)

1. Canterlot Wedding Part 1
2. Party of One
3. Family Appreciation Day
4. Call of the Cutie
5. Games Ponies Play

S1: 21.5 (+2)
S2: 26.5 (+3)
S2: 12 (+0)

EPISODES 13 & 26 (AKA Grand Finales… What do you mean there are non-finale episodes in this?!)

1. Magical Mystery Cure
2. Canterlot Wedding Part 2
3. Best Night Ever
4. Baby Cakes
5. Fall Weather Friends

GRAND TOTAL
S1: 22.5 (+1)
S2: 28.5 (+2)
S3: 14 (+2)

Notice something? This kinda gives Season 3 a disadvantage from the start because there's only 13 episodes. For it to win in this format, it'd have to consistently get 1st or 2nd. It exemplifies what's Season 3's true weakness is compared to the previous seasons. Season 1 and Season 2 just have more. But when nerfed, in the case of the format originally used for these comparisons. Season 3 stood it's ground and even won. It's just give or take, either you give Season 3 the disadvantage by having it sandwiched against four episodes. Two each from each Season. Or you have Season 1 and Season 2 basically fight eachother and even itself so that Season 3 has the advantage of not being too big a presence. But all in all, this kinda gives a more accurate showing of how I think of each Season. To no one's surprise, I still think Season 2's the best we got right now. And Season 1 has just enough I can't really say Season 3 is better then it. But I must give kudos to Season 3 anyway for putting up a real good fight still, even defeating one of my all-time favorite episodes with it's own all-time favorite of it's own.

Now I must say I probably won't be able to do episode comparisons again like this after Season 4 episodes. I admit I procrastinated quite a bit with 65 episodes to do. Can you imagine how I'll be if I did this again with 91 episodes?! I might make it more simplified however by ranking the episodes in the groups that I showed here. The points next going like 3, 2.5, 2, 1.5, 1, .5, 0. As I feel this system really is the best for showing the depths of each Season even if Season 3 is given the initial disadvantage by having only 13 episodes compared to the 26 in Seasons 1, 2, and 4.

I thank you very much for following my comparisons if you've been reading them. I don't really think I'm the best reviewer here. I may even come a bit biased at times and I know not all of you really agree with my views and if you were in my place might of ranked what I thought of as the best as lower then I had them. But this is really a journey I really wanted to take to really say how I feel about Season 3 in comparison to the previous seasons. And as you saw, the verdict showed up. If you forgot, when given a chance it can matchup well. But it's numerical inferiority seriously hurts it's chances on the basic level and unfortunately for that reason will probably remain the lesser season of the show. I believe there there were enough golden moments that proved it has it's place. Season 3's best really rank up high with some of the best episodes of the show. None so more obvious in that last one I did. And that's all I really wanted to achieve with this. Now let's get hyped as we get closer and closer to another season of Friendship is Magic!
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypFG0IJqeXk

not sure if i should laugh or not at this
 
I'm not watching it but I heard one of the people in the vid made fun of the Bronycon organizer for being transgendered. It's ok to get your "Bronies? Haha" joke. But it's NOT cool when you're making fun of someone else on a more personal note.

On the brighter side, have a video that has a little bit of Season 4 in it. Even if for the first 17 seconds it talks about Littlest Pet Shop xP

 
We have our synopsis for the first three episodes!

Season 4 Episode 1
Title: Princess Twilight Part 1
Synopsis: Now a Princess, Twilight Sparkle's Summer Sun Celebration plans are put on hold when Princesses Luna and Celestia go missing.
Air Date: November 23, 2013

Season 4 Episode 2:
Title: Princess Twilight Part 2
Synopsis: In order to save Equestria from the Everfree Forest, Princess Twilight and friends must bring their Elements to the Tree of Harmony.
Air Date: November 23, 2013

Season 4 Episode 3
Title: Castle-Mania
Synopsis: While in Luna and Celestia's old castle, the ponies are convinced it is haunted by the Pony of Shadows.
Air Date: November 30, 2013

Getting interesting already ^^
 
Northern Verve said:
We have our synopsis for the first three episodes!

Season 4 Episode 1
Title: Princess Twilight Part 1
Synopsis: Now a Princess, Twilight Sparkle's Summer Sun Celebration plans are put on hold when Princesses Luna and Celestia go missing.
Air Date: November 23, 2013

Season 4 Episode 2:
Title: Princess Twilight Part 2
Synopsis: In order to save Equestria from the Everfree Forest, Princess Twilight and friends must bring their Elements to the Tree of Harmony.
Air Date: November 23, 2013

Season 4 Episode 3
Title: Castle-Mania
Synopsis: While in Luna and Celestia's old castle, the ponies are convinced it is haunted by the Pony of Shadows.
Air Date: November 30, 2013

Getting interesting already ^^
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Episode 3 intrigues me, since
it's technically the castle Celestia and Luna used to live it, but now it's abandoned, and was only seen in part 2 of the series premiere. Also, "Pony of Shadows"... Did anyone else think of Sombra?

The more I get excited for this, the more I think of what they did in season 3, plus Equestria Girls, and I become more nervous or hesitant then anything.
 
So get this, someone suggested in this MLP forum I went to that:

the castle in the Everfree Forest will be the home of Princess Twilight's new castle.

If that were the case, I can say is...

BRILLIANT!

I mean, seriously, I can't get over how much of a clever move this is! Not only would Twilight rule in the Everfree Forest to keep it in check, but since the Everfree Forest is close to Ponyville, it gives the writers a good excuse for Twilight to stay in touch with her friends! If this is where they go, I'll applaud the writers and take back all the negative things I've said about them in the past!

Also, since this hasn't been mentioned yet, the cast has been revealed for the two-parter:

http://www.equestriadaily.com/2013/10/season-4-episodes-one-and-two-expanded.html

And apparently...

Discord's involved... Well, good, if it weren't for the suggestion that Twilight would rule in the Everfree Forest, this is where I'd say I'm officially intrigued and looking forward to this. See, I thought Keep Calm and Flutter On was a frustratingly average episode, and that it's average-ness would be mitigated by what they do with Discord after this. Really, that was one of the biggest questions I had about them reforming Discord: you're taking one of the most powerful enemies and turning him into a good guy; with his powers being what they are, how are you going to explain why every problem can't just be solved by going to him? Oh, and I sincerely hope they pull that "his magic isn't powerful enough/doesn't affect it" crap, I had a hard time believing that Celestia somehow managed to enchant the Elements of Harmony so Discord can't just take them, and if they try to pull that crap here... It'll be severely disappointing. After all, if he can't do whatever he wants, why did he seem so dangerous in the first place? Not to mention, why bring him to the side of good if you can't fully utilize him?

...So yeah, color me officially hyped and excited! ;D
 
[color=officially hyped and excited]I'll give this season a try. I haven't seen MLP since last season ended.[/color]
 
Smashgoom202 said:
So get this, someone suggested in this MLP forum I went to that:

the castle in the Everfree Forest will be the home of Princess Twilight's new castle.

If that were the case, I can say is...

BRILLIANT!

I mean, seriously, I can't get over how much of a clever move this is! Not only would Twilight rule in the Everfree Forest to keep it in check, but since the Everfree Forest is close to Ponyville, it gives the writers a good excuse for Twilight to stay in touch with her friends! If this is where they go, I'll applaud the writers and take back all the negative things I've said about them in the past!

Also, since this hasn't been mentioned yet, the cast has been revealed for the two-parter:

http://www.equestriadaily.com/2013/10/season-4-episodes-one-and-two-expanded.html

And apparently...

Discord's involved... Well, good, if it weren't for the suggestion that Twilight would rule in the Everfree Forest, this is where I'd say I'm officially intrigued and looking forward to this. See, I thought Keep Calm and Flutter On was a frustratingly average episode, and that it's average-ness would be mitigated by what they do with Discord after this. Really, that was one of the biggest questions I had about them reforming Discord: you're taking one of the most powerful enemies and turning him into a good guy; with his powers being what they are, how are you going to explain why every problem can't just be solved by going to him? Oh, and I sincerely hope they pull that "his magic isn't powerful enough/doesn't affect it" crap, I had a hard time believing that Celestia somehow managed to enchant the Elements of Harmony so Discord can't just take them, and if they try to pull that crap here... It'll be severely disappointing. After all, if he can't do whatever he wants, why did he seem so dangerous in the first place? Not to mention, why bring him to the side of good if you can't fully utilize him?

...So yeah, color me officially hyped and excited! ;D
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Yeah, that's the absolutely best move they could do other then simply building a new castle near Ponyville sometime in the future. Granted I'm sure Celestia and Luna's Castle is going to take a ton of refurbishing. But it's also kind of iconic since it is the place where Twilight and her friends defeated Nightmare Moon in the pilot. The way it ties things together with the beginning of the series will be absolutely brilliant

And Discord's involved in some way? That's good, I was hoping they'd use him for some thing of importance other the obligatory "John DeLancie came by" guest episode that Keep Calm and Flutter On may as well have been. I wonder if at first the Main 6 think this (As in Celestia and Luna's disappearence, and the Everfree Forest going haywire) was Discord's doing and Discord has to tell them he's not the cause.
 
Regarding the Discord question, the writers could just just go with the simple notion that "nah, he doesn't really feel like it"

Remember, he may be good now, but that doesn't mean he can't still be a dick to everyone.
 
Here's the fourth episode of Season 4

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Now if you don't mind something that was hinted at in the comics and even the toy...

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As for my thoughts...

Oh I really hope that's what happening.

An episode where at least one of the Main 6's parents ESPECIALLY Twilight's is something I've been hoping to have in the show for a long while now. Unless the show confirms itself to be that different from the comic's line. Which considering we hear that the comic artist get to preview Season 4 seems unlikely. WE WILL FINALLY HAVE TWILIGHT'S PARENT(/S) SPEAK :D

Seriously, I've always been kinda disappointed that they've made the most appearances out of all the Main 6 parents (Cutie Mark Chronicles, Canterlot Wedding, and Magical Mystery Cure) but they didn't get one spoken line. And this would finally be the perfect chance to do something for this. This sounds almost too awesome to be true for me.
 
Part of me feels this episode will be another one of those formulaic episodes, because it feels like I've seen this premise played out before. Also, I find this premise rather interesting in light of
being so aware that writers, in general, aren't allowed to take, read, or even look at ideas from the fans due to legal reasons. I wonder if that will be present in the show at all? Given what's come before, I feel like they're not going to do anything new or interesting and that the episode will be incredibly straight-forward, because that's usually how it goes with My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. :-\

Also, I forgot about that in the comics, the author of Daring Do is none other then Twilight's mother... think the show will follow up on it?
 
Have another promo. This time it's 100% Pony related rather then half-way for Littlest Pet Shop xP


It's half day and half night. In this episode it's always Twilight
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Also I love glowing eyes Twilight. If there's an awesome "Avatar State"-esque scene for Twilight in this two-parter. I will love it forever.

And it looks like Discord is standing by just enjoying it, even if he's not the cause of it.
 
Northern Verve said:
Also I love glowing eyes Twilight. If there's an awesome "Avatar State"-esque scene for Twilight in this two-parter. I will love it forever.
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so i'm not the only one who thought of that
 
personally idrc since they have pretty much every song in the series on youtube, but i guess it'd be nice for people who can't access the internet or w/e
 
Nightmare Moon said:
personally idrc since they have pretty much every song in the series on youtube, but i guess it'd be nice for people who can't access the internet or w/e
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Also, it's nice to have an OFFICIAL soundtrack, that I can actually purchase and feel good about getting, because Daniel Ingram writes good music and I'd like to show my appreciation outside of just saying "you rock!"
 
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