Talk:My Little Pony Friendship is Magic/@comment-9250155-20131007205455/@comment-26973802-20131007230117

I know we like a show to go on but if it does go that far, it'll be harder to keep track of all the episodes, older DVD box sets will be scarce to make room for the new ones and it'll be harder to balance them on TV, and it'll make mare-a-thons take forever (Dragonball Z at 276 took long enough) plus like the Simpsons, Season 20, etc, won't be as good as earlier seasons because they'll be out of ideas. Even the later Family Guy episodes are less interesting to me now.

Another example is Pokemon, the beginning of the next season will mark the 800th episode (technically it's still 799 after that banned episode that I count out of continuity, how come they count it but not the Dratini one or the Porygon one). I'm pretty sure Season 1 and 2 box sets can be found on amazon but they haven't (as far as I know) released Seasons 3 or 4 yet, and with all the new seasons of Pokemon they're struggling to keep up with releases of more recent seasons. Even if the missing seasons did get a release, good luck doing a mare-a-thon. And older seasons don't air on TV anymore, and I haven't found a single episode on youtube, either a.) due to lack of interest in it these days, b.) due to trolls, or c.) the creators are being overprotective of what they basically threw in the trash.

Which is a shame, because they did a really good season with Diamond and Pearl, I stopped watching in the middle of Johto, so I couldn't go through Hunter J and Cyrus's appearances the way we were meant to, see the mystery of Ash, Dawn, and Brock's first encounters with the Lake Trio, be shocked at just how dark J is, and even more shocked when Mesprit and Uxie kill her, or when Dialga and Palkia kill Cyrus in the following episode. Instead, the first I heard of J was her death scene, so I specifically ordered the last volume of Diamond and Pearl Galactic Battles just to see it.

Honestly, I think a good decently long run would be enough. 91 episodes is 40 more than Digimon Tamers or Soul Eater, 39 more than Beast Wars, barely less than Digimon's first two seasons, and is the episode number in Dragonball Z after the one where Goku defeats Frieza. Besides, all evidence points toward Season 4 being last season, and better to end the series with a grand finale.