Talk:Friendship is Magic animated media/@comment-1031724-20170713074843/@comment-32875194-20170713190546

It's not actually likely to be a single-part finale for the reason you gave. :)

Because there never was a connection (as in seasons 1 and 3). A swingle-part premiere doesn't automatically imply a single-part finale.

Unlike premieres, finales were always meant to be stronger, to make sure that the fans of the show will be inspired by it to wait for a new season. It's important to finish it on a high note.

The only exception is season 3, and it has an explanation: Hasbro insisted on 13 episodes (to have a common 65 episodes before finishing the show production completely), and they requested the finale to be something epic, a musical episode, etc. So that's how it ended to be a single episode, which for some people feeled rushed because of how much was packed into it and how often the mood was changing during that episode (I liked it just fine that way, myself).

So, unless we have 13 episodes in a season, there's no reason for them to avoid having a proper two-parter finale. :)

Oh... you're going to ask why I didn't mention season 1 as well?

Because it actually was supposed to have a two-parter finale, "The Return of Harmony". You could actually suspect it by the fact it has an old-style MLP opening, when starting from episode 3 it's updated, and the animation of episodes was a bit improved, too.

Season 2 originally was supposed to have "Lesson Zero" as its single premiere, it was actually a great start to the second season in itself, and the ending with Celestia making the whole Main 6 write to her letters: it was a start of someting new for season 2.

Well, Hasbro was the reason we got what we have now, but it was just the very first season of the show. Things only were getting established. So, it's highly unlikely we'll get such random changes, and a lot of things gets planned ahead a lot better nowadays.

As a conclusion: it's almost a guarantee that we'll get a two-parter finale this and future seasons. :)