Talk:The Crystal Empire - Part 1/@comment-5065943-20121030195825/@comment-3469620-20121030222217

If no one's going to die, then this season wouldn't be darker like the previous ones. There is a lot of confirmation that the season will be darker, thus increasing the belief of somepony being killed off.

If the producers retain of the supporting characters and just add more and more of them without any of them being killed off, it will lead to canoncity and continuity problems.