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Pony head writer Meghan McCarthy tells EW that season 3 will focus on main pony Twilight Sparkle as she advances in her magical studies: “She’s been in Ponyville for awhile now, and so her journey is going a little bit further,” McCarthy says. It’ll also feature “very catchy and very, very cute” new songs, “the usual pop culture references,” and the reemergence of a certain unnamed fan favorite villain — who McCarthy says will return “in a very, very awesome way.”

I knew it. Season 3 is a proper story arc. It’s 13 episodes because they tell a complete story.

Not necesarily. It just says it will FOCUS on Twilight advancing in magic studies. It still can be a bunch of loosely tied episodes that will just have something that helps her with it.