Talk:My Little Pony Equestria Girls/@comment-5926076-20130619163658/@comment-6680512-20130619171014

I think Season 3 was the low point for FiM. It's probably because originally, the writers though that Season 3 would be the end point of the show, so they wanted to wrap it up as best they could. However, that all changed when the show itself became highly popular (mostly due to the brony fandom) and profitable, and the fact that the show was just renewed for a fourth season. Most American animated shows usually don't make it pass the 65-episode limit due to finnancial reasons, but they can if the show's popular enough. It all goes back to ratings. Ratings equals profit, and if a show has high ratings, it's a sucess, regardless of quality. That's why bad TV shows tend to stay on the air - ratings keep the show on the air, and the produces are able to still make a profit by producing bad entertainment.

I think that since there's a Season 4 in the works, the writers are going to pick off where they last left off, and they'll try to make the new episodes much better. With more episodes, they'll have more than enough time to carry on or introduce new characters, ideas, settings, and story arcs. However, if Season 4 is highly lacking in the quality and the charm of the first two seasons (and some bits of Season 3), then the show might go downhill from there. It all depends on how consistent the quality of the future episodes is.