Talk:Episodes, films, and shorts/@comment-26065423-20150616194035/@comment-24791619-20150616205941

Are the ratings that bad? I don't think they'd have announced a season 6 if they were. The real 'cash cow' for this, however, is the merchandizing. The show and the movies are basically commercials for the toys and etc.

My big fear, or at least a concern, is the movie planned for 2017. It could be a curtain call for the series. You know, Rainbow becoming a Wonderbolt, the CMC getting their cutie marks, Pinkie and Cheese becoming a couple, Spike having to take a 100 year dragon nap. But most importantly, Twilight being elevated to a position equal to the other princesses. Not just a representative of a virtue, but the ruler of a realm.

But this isn't the first generation of MLP (but the best so far), and probably not the last. Maybe the 100th episode is a testing for a spinoff. (God forbid a EG spinoff!)