Talk:On Your Marks/@comment-26423071-20160315174604/@comment-23858349-20160316151936

Pfft. More like the best thing they could've done. The CMC's search for cutie marks was getting so stale and boring. We shad to sit through five seasons of "We'll go get some marks!" followed quickly by "Aww we didn't get them, maybe next time!" at the end of all their episodes. The CMC's best outings were when there wasn't a focus on their marks, like Twilight Time and Flight to the Finish. The episode also surprised us on what their true talents were instead of being anticlimactic and telling us that The Show Stoppers was right. Now that they have cutie marks, there's so much more to explore, like how they will struggle with coming to terms with responsibility, their different ways of doing things and how the group dynamic will change. You really don't know a mistake has been made until you can look at the consequences of the act. If the future CMC episodes are awful because of their cutie marks, then I'll agree, but the way it's going tells me the writers know what they're doing and probably planned it through greatly.