Hello fans of the hit franchise My Little Pony season 8 of Friendship is Magic has finally premiered after what seems like forever and what a pair of episodes we have to talk about today so lets get ready because I think I can hear the school bell ringing.
Now incase you was wondering if the show would even mention the events of the movie the first scene makes it very clear i'm not going to say if the movie is cannon or not since this review is spoiler free so if you want to know you'll have to ask me directly.
The plot of the episodes sees Twilight and her friends opening up a school for friendship (it's two early to say if the school will be a permanent fixture or not) and it follows there attempts to run the school. I have to say that i'm glad they have matured these characters to such a degree that they are now the ones teaching other creatures about friendship instead of being the ones learning about it it makes all of the character regression from Fluttershy seem worth it.
Now of course we have all of the regular cast so I won't both to credit them here since there obviously going to be in the episodes but hopefully joining the cast on a more permanent bases we have Vincent Tong as Sandbar , Shannon Chan-Kent as Smolder , Maurice LaMarche as Chancellor Neighsay , Gavin Langelo as Gallus , Lauren Jackson as Silverstream and Katrina Salisbury as Yona.
I have to say I really liked the brain in these two episodes I won't spoil what kind of role he plays but I can see the fans getting quite upset with his character and I thought that the rest of the characters were really well performed since most of these characters are new to the show I wasn't expecting the actors to really be good but for the first time out I was surprised.
Now i'm not sure if DHX Media do the animation or not since I found out about another company called Top Cow Animation but either way I thought the animation in these two episodes was pretty good altho since the last think I saw from MLP was the dreadful Forgotten Friendship special anything would be considered a step up everything looked like it could have been in the movie thats how good it was.
We have to talk about the elephant in the room the season 8 leaks let's not pretend that they didn't happen because they did and I like most of most likely didn't watch the leaked episodes now while i'm not opposed to watching one or two leaked episodes here tho six episodes were leaked and that's just not cool at all and sadly it's something that won't be going away anytime soon it's just something we will all have to deal with it's sad but true.
Overall the ponies are back in town (if you sang that part then well done you) this was a really fun episode sorry there's not really much I could talk about since alot of it could have been considered a spoiler School Daze gets a 7 out of 10 from this pony fan.