Hey rhombus, thanks again for all your help. I just uploaded the chapter and left a shoutout to you as thanks in the description.http://animeboye.deviantart.com/art/Final-...s=1&ga_recent=1

Wow, that's actually far more complicated than I was expecting. Still, I'm glad you were able to help me. Thanks rhombus. Although if I might correct your friend, it wasn't the doctor who was going to look after him. It was the main character of the series and his family. The main protagonist and the doctor are two different people. So with that in mind, I wonder if that might end up changing anything. Would he still be able to take care of the kid until they found his parents (quick spoiler, they won't but I don't want to go into any further spoilers) or would that not be possible since the only relation the protagonist and his friends and family have to the boy is that the main character's sons and their friends found him badly beaten?

I actually watched the season finale a few weeks ago when it got leaked and it was really good. I certainly wasn't expecting it to end the way it did but it was a really nice ending. All the former villains (plus Thorax since he was never really a villain) all played off each other very well. I won't say anymore because I don't want to spoil it. It was really that good.

It feels a little strange to be in another hiatus but that might also be since quite a bit of this season got leaked early so for me, technically the hiatus started a couple weeks ago. Either way, this season had a lot of week parts to it but there were also some pretty fun ones. I especially liked the introductions of Tender Taps and Thorax. I really enjoyed these characters and I hope we get to see more of them come next season. I do think it was too bad that Babs Seed didn't show up though. I was hoping that maybe she and the CMC would meet up and maybe try to help some ponies get their Cutie Marks around Manehattan. Oh, well. Maybe next season hopefully.

Well I've finally managed to watch the latest episodes so with the exception of episode 20, I'm pretty much caught up with this season. I tried watching the episode on Dailymotion but then an ad popped up, got blocked, and messed up the video so it wasn't showing anything. I wonder if episode 20 might be on Google Video 'cause I don't think Dailymotion's going to work for me and Youtube only has clips from the episode.

Also, the latest episodes were pretty good. Wondering how the new Equestria Girls is going to be.

Spoilers for the season six finale have been revealedhttp://www.equestriadaily.com/2016/09/my-l...e-and.html#more

Oldest and greatest foes returning. Hmm. I wonder if it's Chrysalis. It would make sense since we were introduced to Thorax. Maybe he'll provide some kind of help in defeating her.

Also, since I didn't give my thoughts on the last two episodes. They were pretty good. The Discord one reminded me a lot of that Spongebob episode where Mr. Krabs joins Spongebob and Patrick for some guys night out stuff but it turns out the things they like to do are really lame. I was just waiting for Spike and/or Big mac to ask, "Are you feeling it now, Mr. Discord?"

The last one was alright. It was neat seeing another sports related episode and finding out that Pinkie and Fluttershy were actually really good at buckball was pretty cool. Too bad Rarity and Twilight weren't with them. I just thought it was strange (although understandable) that the rest of the Mane Six were in this episode aside from them. Maybe Twi and Rarity had to solve a friendship problem then.

So why didn't anybody tell me there was a part two to Mare Do Well?

That's seriously what this episode was just Mare Do Well part 2. Rainbow Dash acts like a jerk, her friends as well as the whole town get sick of it, then her friends (the town too in this case) set up a plan to get back at RD and make her learn a lesson. Only this time, it was actually somewhat justified (although Rainbow Dash had to be out of character for it to be but I digress).

Some of the pranks were pretty mean. The Cranky one was pretty cruel, sort of the same for the one Dash pulled on Spike (although it was kind of funny). The one she pulled on Rarity was pretty clever and I didn't see it going the way it did and I have to admit, I did bust out laughing at Twilight sitting on a whoopie cushion. The zombie ponies were a cool idea but I didn't find it scary since it was pretty obvious it was all an act.

Well it was better than the previous episode but it still could have been better.

Stranger Than Fanfiction the episode says? Well fanfiction's already plenty strange so how much stranger could we possibly get?

This was a pretty hilarious episode. I can't believe they actually showed body pillows of all things. Quibble was pretty annoying at times though and just looked like a rule 63 Daring Do (who looks like a Rainbow Dash recolor. What a paradox).

I did find it especially strange that Quibble was complaining about how unrealistic the Daring Do books were when they live in a world with dragons, a bug queen who feasts on love to survive, a dragon/pony/deer hybrid who loves pranks, two princesses who raise the sun and the moon, and where the ponies manually change the seasons. Compared to their world, I'd assume Daring Do's pretty realistic. Besides, the three main pony races are capable of pretty much anything so how are Daring's adventures supposedly that far outside the realm of plausibility?

This was a pretty enjoyable episode. The way the story was told was unique for MLP and it had some legitimately funny moments. I liked the idea of turning the boutique into a boutique/dance club. That was a pretty creative and clever idea. Also, the Pinkie clone being seen at the restaurant. I wonder if they'll follow up on that.

I was wondering why they didn't include Jacob Marley. Makes sense now.

The episode itself was alright. Song heavy but one of the better episodes of this season. I just find it strange that they'd do a Christmas special in the end of Spring/beginning of Summer. I did love how it was a retelling of A Christmas Carol but with ponies (although I am disappointed they didn't have Pipsqueak be Tiny Tim).

In all honesty, I think this whole season in general just hasn't been very good so far. Don't get me wrong, the episodes aren't terrible or anything, they're just nothing very noteworthy either. I'm not sure if I'm just becoming jaded with MLP or what but I haven't enjoyed these episodes as much as I've enjoyed past ones.

One problem I had was actually with one of the earlier episodes of this season. The one with Maud Pie. I don't dislike Maud but I do think she's a pretty one dimensional character. So much so that it almost feels intentional. Her obsession with rocks was cute and even kind of funny at first but now it's just tiring because that's really all there is to her. Rocks. Every sentence that comes out of her mouth has something to do with rocks and it's just really not that funny anymore. I've noticed the same thing with Twilight being so obsessive compulsive about making sure everything is just so. It used to be a cute quirk of hers that gave her more character but now it's starting to feel like that is her character. We see this in the season six opener and we even saw a little of it in the latest episode.

Characters like Pinkie and Spike also fell into this trap albeit a bit sooner than a character like Twilight did. Pinkie used to be the lighthearted jokester who wanted to make others laugh and be as great a friend as she could be. In the first season, we see that even though Pinkie loves pranks, she still knows when a prank goes too far such as when she decides not to prank Fluttershy because she thought it might hurt her. That really showed depth on Pinkie's part and made her that much more likable.

Then three seasons later, we have Pinkie just completely unaware of Fluttershy's feelings in Fili Vanilli. She scares Fluttershy so much with her insane what if scenarios that she, on numerous occasions, drives the poor pony to tears. And THIS is the same pony who didn't want to pull a prank on her friend because she was afraid it would hurt her feelings?

Spike, while I don't think he's necessarily been flanderized, I still think he's been getting worse treatment over the course of the show. In the beginning he was pretty much the little brother of the Mane Six. He could be a brat, laughing at their misfortunes (i.e after the poison joke messes with them) but he still clearly cared about them and they still clearly cared about him. By season four, it seemed like he had become the punching bag of the series. Most of the jokes that involved Spike were usually done at his expense.

But my biggest issue with MLP right now is that when it comes down to it, MLP just doesn't take any risks. I'm not saying it should be like Animaniacs and include more subtle adult humor or be like say, Batman the Animated Series and have dark, depressing storylines but just something a bit different. Lauren Faust once said that she originally wanted the characters to have more adventures so why not do something like that? Have them go on adventures, have them fight villains more often than just at the beginning and/or end of the season, have them go to other parts of Equestria(they've started doing this a little more which I think is pretty cool). I don't think slice-of-life stuff is bad, per se but I liken it to cake. It can be good and anyone can enjoy it but it's not something you should always have. It's good as a once in a while thing.

And maybe have an episode where not everything is wrapped up neatly with a pretty little bow on top. One thing I loved about the Reflections Arc in the comics was that not everything worked out perfectly in the end. A sacrifice had to made and there was no deus-ex-machina to reverse it. The arc had plenty of plot holes (one of which relates to the previously mentioned sacrifice) but I still enjoyed it. I won't spoil anymore but I thought it was a good read. Not outstanding, but good.

Anyway, point being, the series did use to do this with the ponies entering a competition and not always winning in the end (although that's changed too) but why not do that with more scenarios? Maybe have a friendship problem that starts to be resolved but isn't fully resolved at the end of the episode? That would be a great lesson for kids too that sometimes problems aren't solved right away and it can be a gradual process.

Even with all that said though, I do still enjoy this show and I do still love these characters. I just want to see more done with MLP. The series still has so much potential left in it and I just want to see that potential utilized.