Now i before i start i want to make it clear that if you've already watched the leaked episodes that's fine heck even i was pondering with the idea of watching them and i still am but i want to say that whatever caused these episodes to end up online shouldn't have happened.
Incase you didn't know on Sunday a whole bunch of season 8 episodes found themselves online and what shocked me was that no one was talking about this and i was shocked even more when i logged on this morning and found another episode has found it self online and i have to ask why is this happening? I've not seen the episodes so i can't say if they aired the episodes somewhere else first but with them coming online this fast it makes it look like the episodes are being leaked and that's not good for the show as a whole.
I live in the UK so being able to watch the show the legal way for me is hard because i have no idea where and what time it airs in my country so i have to watch the episodes the illegal way just to catch up i'm not saying it's right but that's the sad truth but with all the episodes that got released even i was going "this is to much" so far 6 episodes have been leaked as of this writing.
It's at this point i'd like to bring up shows like Steven Universe and Adventure Time because like MLP season 8 they have episodes leaked all the time and it's usually around the same amount of episodes which is four or five episodes and it hurts the shows ratings which in turn increases it's chances of getting cancelled.
We all remember when the recent movie leaked early but for me that's a different issue because of the fact that the movie leaked days before it was due to come out so it wouldn't have effected it's box office performance that much to begin with but hear were talking of leaking episodes months in advance that will have an impact on the ratings overall and i;m sorry about going on and on about ratings but it's the truth.
So there you go guys that's how i feel about the leaks sorry if it's seems like a bit of a rant post but to me that's how you know that someone truly cares about something and again i won't hold it against you if you choose to watch the episodes early and again that's something i might even do.