Talk:Twilight Sparkle/@comment-24.68.73.63-20120716060802/@comment-4710098-20120720155920

In the first season, Twilight had to appear in every episode because she was the only pony in the show that was able to make friendship reports. Now, keep in mind that this was back when the show had an E/I rating and couldn't leave out any morals in any of the episodes. In the second season, the format of the show was changed to allow all the main characters make friendship reports and not require a lesson every week. This way she wouldn't have to be shoehorned into every single episode. While she may have been in every episode in the first season and only been absent in some episodes of the second season, the writers really had no choice but to include her.