So, November. Well, that's good. Unless I suddenly lose a lot of interest by then, this may be the first season I'll follow live. Sort of. Since I'm not in America, I can't use the official sources and have to rely on Youtube and stuff.

Talking about "not in America", is anybody, who doesn't happen to be me, visiting GalaCon?

i am very far away from Germany at the time, so i din't think i'll be able to make it.

Slightly earlier than I was expecting, so, yay.

I wouldn't be so sure. MLP already deals with things outside children's issues. The mane 6 are all adults with jobs after all. I've never watched it, but from what I hear Spongebob had a lot of episodes revolving around characters working awful part time jobs. Dan Vs. is a kids show.

I think kids will enjoy anything that's funny and compelling even if they don't relate to it all that strongly.

As for the whole "is the series profitable enough to continue thing" I don't think we have to worry atm. According to hasbro's latest profit info their girls section is stroooongly growing. The show's been doing better and better and Equestria Girls seems to have succeeded as well. Plus, I recently heard that nowadays it's become as important or more important for shows to have a strong internet presence as it is to have ratings. There are shows that consistently get low ratings but keep getting renewed for more seasons simply because they attract a lot of attention online. Obviously mlp has that part down.

edited 25th Jul '13 12:27:39 PM by Bluespade

Yeah, but Spongebob and Dan Vs. aren't specifically geared towards teaching lessons to kids; they're just supposed to be entertaining. MLP does have the characters deal with adult issues, but the lesson at the end of it is always something with a very wide application that isn't specific to adults.

I'm not saying they couldn't make a show set in college, just that if they did they probably wouldn't make the show centered around issues that are only applicable to older people. Granted, it's still possible for them to modify the demographic, especially in a spinoff.

edited 25th Jul '13 12:28:41 PM by JapaneseTeeth

Heh. November 23rd. That's a brilliant coincidence.

edited 25th Jul '13 12:29:24 PM by PurpleDalek

Sure, there are plenty of issues that are equally applicable to both college and grade/middle school.

The whole "losing touch with old friends" is plenty applicable to kids. Lots of kids have to move away with their families, and unlike adults, they don't even get a choice. Plus adults usually have a much easier time keeping in touch with old friends do to the technology and freedom available to them, whereas kids usually just have to accept it.

Plus, college is a school, and well, most kids lives revolve around school. Sure they're pretty different but they're still close enough for them to relate to.

To be more clear, I was responding specifically to this bit:

Meaning that I don't think they would make a show dealing specifically with college-age issues, as opposed to as show set in college that deals with more universally useful issues. Obviously that specific lesson is applicable to a lot of people; I'm just saying that in general I think they'd want to keep the lessons as widely relevant as possible rather than focusing on a specific (older than the target audience) age-range.

It would be great to see them shake up the setting, but the lessons will probably still be geared towards the same demographic.

edited 25th Jul '13 12:42:31 PM by JapaneseTeeth

I think it would be better to keep the CMC together, and make Twist the long distance friendship, or have them write to their families instead. That would also give them an excuse to throw in Applejack, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash cameos from time to time.

Ooh! Glad that the new seaon is earlier than expected.

Also. Harmony Theory updated! Harmony Theory updated! Squeeeeeeeee! *goes off to read*

edited 25th Jul '13 12:43:41 PM by Sereg

@Wryte: OF course, for that to work, they'd need to show Twist interacting with the CMC...

Well, it's already established that she and Applebloom are friends. They could go the families route for the letter writing, and just make the separation from friends issue between Applebloom and Twist.

Alternatly, they could do the Separation with Babs Seed instead of Twist.

Glad to hear that S4 is coming out eariler then I expected.

Also, given how Cheerliee had no speaking appearences in Season 3 {Her only appearence for the whole season was a background role. People joke around about Rarity becoming a BG pony for the third season, but Cheerliee actually did get reduced to BG pony status}, I wonder: Was there a teacher's strike going on around the time that the third season took place?

edited 25th Jul '13 12:53:24 PM by marston

Yay more Harmony Theory! I'd also like a Lavender Unicorn Syndrome update.

I probably sound like a broken record at this point, but I'd prefer they drop the lessons altogether.

They really aren't. If you watch that episode and pay attention to Applebloom and Twist's relationship, they seem to barely know each other. Applejack was the one who encouraged them to hang out together, in a sort of parental style "you two should be friends way" and they gave it a try. But after Twist got her CM Applebloom felt like she no longer had any connection to her, and then she quickly found her new friends.

I don't think Twist and Applebloom were ever really close, they just sort of tried out being friends for a few days then naturally drifted apart. They don't dislike each other or anything, but they're not friends.

I completely didn't notice. Well Season 3 was so short it went by in a blur for me.

edited 25th Jul '13 12:56:53 PM by Bluespade

The reason why there almost no letter to celestia its because celestia kinda of joined the strike just to give some reforce to the teachers, it worked kinda!

Twist and Apple Bloom haven't really interacted much since "Call of the Cutie", so it's kinda hard to say they're friends. On good terms, yeah, but they don't spend much time together, so having Twist move away wouldn't be that affecting.

As for Babs, she already lives in another city so having her move wouldn't really change much.

Again, I'd love a limelight episode with her and the Manehatan CMC. They could have an entire background cast with brief roles as if you already knew them if Manehatan had a show. And it would be cool to see an urban setting with a bit more grit than Ponyville.

@Blue: Dan isn't for kids, it's for family/Tweens/us guys IMHO.

It's officially for kids. And Tweens are definitely kids.

I still can't believe how much that show gets away with.

@JT: that's nothing compared to Animaniacs.

edited 25th Jul '13 2:02:26 PM by crimsonstorm15

Oh, I remember Animaniacs. But that didn't air on the same station as MLP.

Or Invader Zim, which didn't even pretend to give a fuck about children's network standards. The early Fairly Odd Parents had many good moments as well. And Kablam had a ton of adult jokes.