Talk:Applejack/@comment-5502573-20121116144431

@Filly Please

I dunno... McCarthy already said this is a shorter season. Here are the claims:

1. 65 episode syndication- In short, when a producer makes 65 episodes, they can sell those episodes to other channels to broadcast, and they make some money off that. And 26 +26 + 13= 65 episodes. Makes sense

2. Lower production costs- There was a report extract between Hasbro execs on why Season 3 MAY be shorter and future seasons also be shorter. It said that now that they have a lot of episodes, they feel like they dont need to invest that much money into making more episodes. Basically, their views are that kids can be satisfied with watching reruns of the same but plenty of episodes and there's less need to make alot of new content. And the reason why they needed a lot of content before was because they were launching a new network. You need original content to make your channel unique so now, they feel it's enough and they can make less episodes.