Talk:The Crystalling - Part 1/@comment-11634302-20160524012321/@comment-4531340-20160524112512

You mean like an hour-long episode? Probably so that when they're showing episodes in re-runs, they don't have to make any concessions in their schedule to allow for hour long slots instead of the standard half-hour (because Discovery Family mostly seems to rerun FiM, along with their other Hasbro shows, in 1.5 hour blocks throughout the week, and so if it ever worked out so that a season finale and then the next season's premiere were to air on the same day, in the same block, it could cause problems).

Or it could just be that they want to keep a consistent length for episodes - not have hour long and half-hour long episodes.