With season 7 of Friendship is Magic coming in April, and an 8th season already confirmed, I’d like to state why I’m worried. Way back in season 5, the show officially jumped the shark in episode 9 Slice of Life. Quite literally in fact. Both season 5 and 6 have had relatively poor reception when compared with previous seasons. Oddly, season 5 was doing pretty well before Slice of Life.

With the Equestria Girls specials releasing this summer, I’ve been wondering… What is Hasbro’s plan? I think I may have an idea of what Hasbro is doing. The Equestria Girls movies were up-and-down. The original was terrible, Rainbow Rocks was amazing, The Friendship Games was meh, and Legend of Everfree was alright. Do to the mixed results, it would be stupid to try and make a full TV show, and we’ve known for a while that Hasbro intends to do so with EqG.

There is a big question I’ve had for a while: where is the royal family of Equestria? We know for a fact that Celestia and Luna have relatives, as Prince Blueblood is their distant nephew and he’s Princess Cadence’s cousin. What this means is that Cadence is related to Celestia and Luna, albeit distant. Blueblood and Cadence are related to the two sisters, so Celestia and Luna have to have closer relatives, even siblings.

We recently got official confirmation from Kora Kosicka, a character designer, that Applejack’s parents are in fact dead. When asked if she could explain what happened she responded: I’m sure one day you’ll find out the story of Applejack’s parents, but it’s a spoiler. ~ Kora Kosicka Now I see people saying “we’ll finally get an episode about this.” Sorry to burst your bubble, but that will never happen. The FCC will not allow it, as MLP is rated TV-Y.