Talk:Equestria Girls animated media/@comment-818549-20170528150413/@comment-10390252-20170528162424

You can only really judge Mirror Magic and Movie Magic as a single two-part episode. So, you have the unique setting (the movie set), the unique antagonist and their motive (Juniper Montage wants to be a star and will do whatever it takes to get it) and then we have the fairly normal hazard and last-minute resolution by deus-ex-magica.

In EqG, it wsa the Elements suddenly manifesting in the human world; in RR it was Sunset's sudden manifestation as the Seventh Element, in FG, it was Sunset apparently learning some equivalent of a Key of Harmony lesson; in LoE it was Twilight embracing her magic; In this story it was what it was (yes, I'm not mentioning because it was a spoiler). That said, yes, there is definitely a formula for Equestria Girls and they need to escape that.