Talk:My Little Pony Equestria Girls/@comment-26973802-20131001042542

Another reason we know they're running out of ideas is this movie.

However I felt about it, they could have done more. They could have made it A Canterlot Wedding quality (which shouldn't have been too difficult seeing as how Meghan McCarthy was the writer) and made the villain as dark as Chrysalis, but the only time the movie really does either is when Sunset Shimmer turns into a demon.

But I guess they couldn't think of any other plots for a standard villain battle without making it repetitive of Nightmare Moon (travel to the castle to get the item to defeat her while overcoming her obstacles), Discord (search for the elements, ponies get corrupted, decorrupt them then defeat him), Chrysalis (disguised as Cadance, we don't know it's an impostor until later on, or her true identity until later, leading to epic fight sequences once she's revealed), and Sombra (keep him out long enough while Twilight searches for the item that can defeat him), so they gave it the "high school" format, splitting it between winning the Fall Formal, Sunset Shimmer's cruelty, and bringing the other Mane 5 back together, with about five minutes of epic fight scene at the end.

Again, I didn't dislike the movie, but human ponies or no, couldn't they have done something a little more on A Canterlot Wedding scale, hay, even the first two episodes, where Sunset is on atleast Nightmare Moon's level all the way through instead of for only five minutes when she's a demon, possibly even possessed by her magnified darker side. Answer: No, because they're running out of ideas, especially where villain episodes are concerned (hence the Nightmare Moon flashback for the Season 4 premier). Sure, all the cameos were good, the songs were awesome, the fight was epic, and there's a Wilhelm Scream easier to hear than the ones in Magic Duel and Keep Calm, but still.