Talk:No Second Prances/@comment-1031724-20160403233630/@comment-4745737-20160403235021

In any kids' show today, ideas will be recycled. They constantly use the same tropes as every other show. Now the first couple of seasons of Friendship is Magic were quite original, because it was a show about quaruped ponies in a qorld where they are the dominant race (no humans.) It was set in a pseudo-Victorian era, and it contins a lot of fantasy lore.

The episodes that focus on the original elements can be very creative, but the other episodes use common tropes like a life debt, a slumber party, or feuding familes. Some of the trope plots have been done well, others have been poorly done. The problem at this point with the series is nothing can be too original anymore, the characters, the environment, etc. are all fully established. This happens with any series. Some build up over the first few seasons, but usually after a few years they begin to seem repetitive.