Talk:Spice Up Your Life/@comment-4531200-20160615200049/@comment-53539-20160725174223

In my opinion season 1 was overall the worst season. Not because it was bad but because it was the "set up" season. The characters were a lot more immature and lacked development. But this is an issue with a lot of new series.

Season 2 is the "expansion" series that tries to expand on what season 1 did right and forget what it did wrong. In this case it removed the issue with Twilight being the letter writer allowing the other characters to get ore focus and expansion without Twilight having to have her character compromised in the process.

As seasons go on, two things happen.
 * 1) They run out of ideas and this leads to rot. I'm not talking about recycling of old stories and plots, because you can go back and revisit a concept and even improve on it. But their best works are behind them and nothing really changes much.  I can think of some series like this such as The Simpsons or Family Guy or Spongebob Squarepants
 * 2) They get better and better as characters develop and expand. Sometimes over time what the show can and can't get away with expands.  A good series also matures with its audience while catering for new ones.

The trouble is its all down to opinion.

But ultimately, season 1 of any show shouldn't be considered the best season and if it is, then you have issues. Ultimately, I don't see the current season as all that bad. We're still seeing the lore of the world expanding and characters are developing. We've had one or two new characters introduced that had a strong character, even if we didn't ness like them.

But look... Recently Monster High rebooted itself after only 5 years of development. To me, MLP is pretty much a solid franchise right now and its doing well, considering that most shows neither last this long nor have such a strong cast of characters, especially ones based on a toyline.